Screaming children at my apartment pool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These children are outside. Yelling/shrieking is allowed outside.

False. Raised voices from happy play are allowed. Screaming and shrieking should only be allowed in case of emergency. Parent your children, please.

Agreed. Shrieking is never okay. If I did that, my mother yanked my arm so hard and threatened to take me home.

HEY what a model to be emulated

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do you accidentally rent an apartment?

This made me LOL, thank you.

Maybe she moved to Florida and decided not to buy a house?

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I let it go, even though I don't like too much screaming. As long as none of them drown, it's all I ask about a pool, really...

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You're living in an apartment building, so you're basically a child. It all makes sense.

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I have kids and agree with OP. An apartment pool is shared space, you don’t have a right to let your kids take over the space just because “they are kids.” It is shared space and kids need to learn that there are not the only person on the planet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're living in an apartment building, so you're basically a child. It all makes sense.

And you're provincial and suburban. More people in the world live in apartments than in single family homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have kids and agree with OP. An apartment pool is shared space, you don’t have a right to let your kids take over the space just because “they are kids.” It is shared space and kids need to learn that there are not the only person on the planet.

Agree. My mother would never let me scream and shriek around others or we would have been going home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You're living in an apartment building, so you're basically a child. It all makes sense.

And you're provincial and suburban. More people in the world live in apartments than in single family homes.

yeah. It's not even a good burn. So all those people with families are children too?

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Anonymous wrote:Until you are 55+, you probably won't be able to guarantee no little kids in any apartment building you rent. Even if no kids live there at the time you sign the lease, new people with kids could move in and existing tenants could give birth, adopt, foster, etc.

Yeah, fair point. Although what really bothered me is that the mom of the screamer was yakking on the phone for an hour while her child shrieked and annoyed everyone else.

This is every pool, everywhere. Every summer.

Unless you're willing to approach a lifeguard and ask them to control the children, who probably are not breaking any rules, there is not much you can do. Get some ear buds and tune them out.

I mean, look. You're at the pool. I have zero sympathy for people who "don't want to get wet" at the pool. And there have to be some places for kids to play, be loud, etc. A pool is one of them. And if they are within the rules, I think you just have to accept it. I mean, it can be annoying but it's a small thing on a scale of annoying things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You're living in an apartment building, so you're basically a child. It all makes sense.

And you're provincial and suburban. More people in the world live in apartments than in single family homes.

+1.
Signed,
A person born and raised in an apartment building in a major capital city

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Who and why, pray tell, resurrected this thread? Pools are not open yet, we still have a month to go.
OP should have thanked her lucky stars that those children were shrieking outside and not in their apartment next door/downstairs from OP. A possible scenario, BTW, I know what I'm talking about.

[Anonymous]

I am going to resurrect again, because it needs to be repeated. Allowing your children to scream at the top of their lungs in an apartment/condo pool area, particularly when surrounded by people’s units, is extremely inconsiderate. If you’re by the pool and the children annoy you, frankly, you can just leave. However, when the screaming is so excessive that it penetrates closed windows, that is not acceptable. People are entitled to enjoy peace within their homes…a concept far more sacred than “they’re just kids”. To the people that think they can bring their kids to the pool at 9:30pm on a Sunday night and let them run wild because quiet hours don’t technically start until 10pm, there is a special place in Hades awaiting your kind. If the standard for self-governance is strictly what you’re legally allowed to do, then I guess disturbed households are also allowed to do what they want, within all legal boundaries. So either go ahead and test our creativity, or maybe just do the right thing and teach your children that screaming disrupts neighbors.

[Anonymous]

I wish I could be like those parents. Screaming drives me CRAZY! I wish I could not give a f when my kids scream. Sounds like paradise.

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If the mom won’t say something, then you should. Could you please keep your voice down?

[Anonymous]

Last year I had a new twist on this story. Last year I was in Fenwick Island on vacation at a complex that had a community pool (outdoors, of course).

My kids (7 and 4) were swimming, not screaming or talking at all (and totally healthy with nothing to suggest otherwise), and a woman in the pool about 10 ft away asked my kids to move to the other end of the pool because she was afraid of the COVID risk. My kids had not been vaccinated at that point obviously, but we were outside in the blazing sun and they were social distance away from her. My old son is SN and can't swim so couldn't go to the "other end" of the pool, which was 6 ft deep.

She left in a huff after I did not do this. So no pleasing everyone, and adults can be badly behaved, too.

That said, I HATE screaming, would not want my kids screaming in the ear of others. But playing you will have to live with, sorry (no splashing you of course).