Can you ever remember your grandparents screaming at you?

Question

(Is screaming at each other a new phenomenon (within the last 50 years)?

Answer 1

My grandparents never raised their voices to anyone-not even each other. They were the true definition of class, always kind, always respectful. What has happened to us as a people? Can no one be civilized anymore?

Like Suzi B below me, I don't scream at my children, and I wouldn't dream of doing so to anyone (I go out of my way to avoid confrontation). My mother's a screamer and my father's free with his fists, so that may be why I play the role of the peacemaker.

Answer 2

Oh, I most definitely think it is!!

As for Grandparents, when I was a kid no one was asking them to raise their Grand kids. They were allowed to be the all loving spoilers of children who could do no wrong!

Now to many Grandparents are being asked or forced to raise their Grand kids and as such they either have to be the disciplinarians or the kids go bad.

As for screaming at each other in general, I think it has come out from behind closed doors so that now we see it more and therefor has become more acceptable and people are no longer finding alternative ways of communicating their frustrations!

They simply no longer have the time to take five calm down and then approach the situation in a balance way.

And I am 37 and I know people didn't scream 27 years ago like they do today so I don't know about 50 years... but I can imagine it was even better then.

Answer 3

No, but then I lost all my grandparents by the time I was 14 years old (one grandfather died 34 years before I was even born).

I think screaming by any family members is more of a modern phenomenon; but it has its good side and its bad. Sometimes it's just as dysfunctional to squash down those feelings until either the person gets physically sick or they go postal on someone.

Answer 4

New? No - likely people screaming at each other is a centuries old thing. After all, back in the 1500s, they used to have a device called the scold's bridle for wives who shrieked at their husbands. It basically was a helmet that clamped the tongue so the woman couldn't speak. basically a torture device.

My grandparents argued, surely - but in a backbiting kind of way - my grandmother never fully realized how to speak up for herself - even took half of her stomach being removed due to a stress ulcer to make her start doing so.

But I never heard them scream at each other.

i don't think my parents have ever screamed at each other in front of the grandkids either - though they did on occasion when we were kids.

maybe age mellows it all for some folks.

Answer 5

They never screamed.

One grandma did scold once or twice and told us to stop monkeying around, but no screaming.

In the last 50 years I have been screamed at, but not by my grandparents.

How about you?

Answer 6

I heard couple scream at each other in the fifties,they were neighbors. My grandparents didn't that i know of,neither did my parents. neither do my husband and i. I think it is call respect or lack of it. And i do agree with you.it is much more common than it used to be.

Answer 7

Screaming???
No. And now that I think of it, my mother never really screamed either.
And, I don't scream at my kids.
It's not a good form of discipline.
Eventually, the kids just tune you out if you scream all of the time.

Answer 8

My Grandparents were the most loving people I ever had the pleasure to know. I'm 61 years old.

Answer 9

I never new my grandfathers, but my grandmothers were both sweet ladies.

As for you second question; no, people have been screaming at each other for millions of years.

Answer 10

Never screamed at me, it must be a new phenomenon! Dang the thought----won't tarnish their memory!