I’d like to think it has something to do with parenting, but it is possible that it has mostly to do with genes.
I, for one, can not tolerate that high pitched screaming. I think it gets inside my head like an oscillating sander, and turns the gray matter into brain jelly. I try to get as far away as I can, but sometimes it’s not possible.
The first time one of my children made that scream, I nearly drove the car into the oncoming traffic. I instantly started playing this game I made up. “How low can you scream,” I asked. I demonstrated, and they tried to copy, and that was the last time I ever heard a high-pitched scream like that. I was quite proud of myself for giving them an alternative instead of just telling them to stop it.
Was it in my children’s nature to be able to modulate their screams? Was it the trick I used?
I see parents towing screaming children by the hand and not really doing a think to deal with whatever the kid is crying about. This seems extremely disrespectful to me. I see parents who don’t seem to care if their kids scream.
A family like that just moved in to the house behind mine and chased me out of my back yard one night when the little one was trying to raise the neighborhood to put out the fire. The parents were sitting around chatting as if nothing was happening. Could they possibly have not heard it? Could they not be getting jelly brains? Or maybe their brains already had been coddled.
Sorry. I ain’t got no answers. Just observations.