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.

I'm going to tell my kids to scream extra loud today.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We (myself, sibling, neighborhood kids) did NOT let out those high pitched shrieks when I was younger. We might have talked or yelled loudly ("The telephone pole is the goal!"), but not that ear-piercing squealing noise. I sympathize with OP.

Ha, You didn't shriek but you yelled loudly? I bet you can't remember half of the loud things you did, I sure can't.

Surprisingly, I can. None involved shrieking.

Ask your apartment if they have "lap swimming only" hours. Our pool has this.

Apartment pools tend to be very very small compared to the number of people. Figure out hours when there aren't kids.

Anonymous wrote:We (myself, sibling, neighborhood kids) did NOT let out those high pitched shrieks when I was younger. We might have talked or yelled loudly ("The telephone pole is the goal!"), but not that ear-piercing squealing noise. I sympathize with OP.

Ha, You didn't shriek but you yelled loudly? I bet you can't remember half of the loud things you did, I sure can't.

Anonymous wrote:I think it would be nice if pools had kid-free adult hours each day or, at the very least, no kids in pool periods for 15 minutes each hour so that adults could swim laps. My former club pool did this and it was also good for safety as it forced kids to rest out of pool periodically. Skating rinks should do this, too.

Every pool we have joined have had breaks for 10 or so minutes every hour where only adults can swim. Which pools do not?

Geez you sound like my son. He was born an old man and was complaining about the annoying kids yesterday at the pool. I saw a large group of kids loudly playing and having fun. He loves visiting my parent's retirement community in Florida where no one is in the pool.

Op should move out and go to a retirement community.

You sure don't live in our building. Here the old folks call and complain about the noise even when there is nobody at the pool. The kids of another pool are much louder than our kids. Their pool is only about 20 meters away, but no visible since it's up the hill and separated by a fence.
Pool is not a library, OP. Move out.

I think it would be nice if pools had kid-free adult hours each day or, at the very least, no kids in pool periods for 15 minutes each hour so that adults could swim laps. My former club pool did this and it was also good for safety as it forced kids to rest out of pool periodically. Skating rinks should do this, too.

Right, and adults are adults, not just big kids. Somebody tell those shrieking kids to tone it down!

Kids are kids, not miniature adults.

Anonymous wrote:We (myself, sibling, neighborhood kids) did NOT let out those high pitched shrieks when I was younger. We might have talked or yelled loudly ("The telephone pole is the goal!"), but not that ear-piercing squealing noise. I sympathize with OP.

Untrue.

Go to a library for peace and quiet.

Kids are allowed to scream and play with noodles in the pool. Yes, if you were looking for a pool to relax, this would be very annoying.

Maybe talk you ypu aprartment complex and suggest an adult only time? This is what our pool does. It is only a couple times a week, but it is heavenly (and I have a kid)