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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t believe OP for the simple fact that there is no one, and I mean NO ONE, more bothered by a child’s screams than the MOTHER. It’s biologically wired into us to respond to our children screaming. Zero chance in hell the mom was laughing at the screaming. That’s the tell that this is made up or exaggerated. [/quote]

Sadly this is not true for all parents. I've been in a couple situations where a child has been permitted to scream/shriek endlessly in public and the parent just ignored it, likely because they hear it so much they have just accepted it.

In both cases I can think of, the parents could easily have avoided subjecting other people to this. One was in the lobby of an after school activity, and it would have been possible to take the shrieking younger sibling outside to wait the 10-15 minutes until the activity ended. The other was a social event at a friend's house, and both parents and a sibling were present -- one of the parents could have left the party with the shrieking kid to spare others having to listen to it, but they didn't. In fact numerous people left the party early to get away from the kid, because it was so relentless and the parents refused to do anything about it.

Some people are bad parents.[/quote]

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