Ban Screaming Children

Last evening as I sat on my back porch reading, the neighbor's boy who is about 4 was playing with a little girl of about the same age. Every few minutes, the girl would let out a blood curdling scream...I have noticed among little girls, that this is the norm...somewhere along the way, someone gave them the notion that that is a "feminine" thing to do. I used to have a family across the street from me that had three girls that screamed constantly....and one was a real tomboy!

In Woodsdale, if a girl had screamed that way while playing, it would have been assumed that she was being murdered and every mother in the area would have come running. As a child, I don't recall even once playing with another girl and having her scream at the top of her lungs....we would have thought that pretty aberrant behavior! And speaking of noise, I can't remember anyone ever telling us we were making too much noise as we played....it was the background music of Woodsdale.

Parents and grandparents....PLEASE teach little girls that it is possible to have fun WITHOUT screaming!!!!