Kids Will Be Loud

You’re sitting in the warm bath, have some candles going, and you’re enjoying a relaxing evening in the tub. Two minutes after your bath starts, the calm ends and the kids are screaming and running around like wild animals. You got a couple of minutes of peace and quiet before reality is setting back in. Your kids don’t understand that you want the quiet - they’re just being themselves.

When your child is still a baby, there’s a good chance that they’ll cry when they want something (like to eat or have a diaper changed), but when they’re not screaming, they’re pretty quiet. They may coo or make other soft sounds, but it’s not going to wake the neighbors up. They can’t run around yet either, so they’re not getting into toys that are really loud. Overall, it’s pretty calm while they’re little.

At some point, you’re going to find that the nice quiet play time is no longer so quiet. First off, they’ll be happy to make their voice heard whenever they want. Add on to that some loud toys and you’ll soon find that it’s rare that your child is very quiet. It doesn’t matter if the toy is supposed to be loud either - they’ll pound it on the ground or wall, they’ll bang multiple toys together, or find some other way to make it loud.

If you have more than one kid, then you can expect a constant barrage of noise with your kids as they grow older until they’re between 8 and 10. Before that time, you can expect the kids to play with each other and have plenty of yelling time. They’ll be screaming at each other and simply yelling with whatever game they’re playing. Don’t expect much time of having a quiet home with more than one kid.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing that your kids are loud, but there are probably times when you want a little bit of peace and quiet. When you do get it, you’ll be happy to have it and you’ll simply let it be. When our two boys are sitting and playing quietly with each other, the last thing we want to do as a parent is interrupt that. I’ll let them go for as long as they will if they’re playing quietly together.

Of course, if things get quiet when you’re not expecting it to be quiet, then you should be checking on your kids. One of the few times that the kids get really quiet is when they’re getting into things that they’re not supposed to. It’s pretty obvious that the kids are being naughty when it’s suddenly quiet in the house. Go check on what they’re doing and make sure they’re not getting into trouble.

If you really want some peace and quiet, your best option is going to be to simply get out of the house without them. Beyond that, you can expect that most of the time the house is going to be loud. While it may seem like a burden in the moment, you will likely find that when the house is really quiet that you miss the noise that you used to have all the time. It’s funny how we struggle to enjoy things in the moment.

Kids will be kids. You’ll likely find that the house is loud while your kids are young, and outside of getting out of the house, you’ll simply have to learn to live with it.