I’m sitting here wondering how my toddler niece can cry this loud day after day, while if I sing along to a concert for 2 hours my voice gets strained for a couple of days.
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Look at a bird. Look how small it is. Look at how much noise it makes.
Also maybe it’s the fact that some features change/disappear when you grow up and a throat of iron may be one of them.
Also i’m sorry for you dear parent, hope your kid spares some mercy for u.
Its the pitch and frequency that makes it sound like it’s louder than it is.
I remember being able to do the perfect horror movie scream, someone once, from blocks away, called the cops because they thought someone was being murdered. I didn’t think it was that loud at the time (definitely didn’t hurt, pretty effortless actually)
But now? I can’t even hit that screach anymore, and can’t get close without feeling like I’m getting over a cold
They’re completely relaxed and have no social inhibitions. We’re socialized to stfu from a young age (inside voice, shhh, etc). People who spend lots of time singing extremely loudly like opera singers have to untrain this inhibition and tension so that they can sing above 100 dB for hours at a time.
As a father of an 8 month old monster, I believe the answer is that they were sent from the depths of hell itself; the laws of science applying to us mere mortals clearly don’t apply to them.
However… It could be a pitch thing. When you shout at a gig, you force your voice to a point where it’s raucous (and probably louder than a child). It could just be that the volume, plus the high pitch makes it seem even louder than it is.
Our vocal cords stiffen as we age. Puberty and the onslaught of hormones stiffens the cartilage of the vocal box, deepening your voice.
And we get even older, the cartilage and muscles weakens, giving elderly people a more raspy voice.
Based on those facts, baby and toddlers must have much more flexible vocal box tissues, why they don’t give AF about screaming their little heads off.
Think about doing a split at 30 yrs old, compared to a split at 18 months. Babies and their vocal cords are flexible as shit.
I’ve wondered this question about fucking dogs out they can literally bark 24 seven and never shut up except to eat… or sleep for five minutes!
Here’s a different but related question: how do people do things like screamo without damaging there vocal cords? There is a way to scream safely, but as adults, we have to learn it and be trained to do it. As children, we know how to do it because it’s in biology.
I wouldn’t say social inhibition is entirely a complete answer from my knowledge. Due to the fact that you have no need to scream or cry often, you forget how to scream- this much is true. But just because social factors are gone doesn’t mean you’ll suddenly be able to scream like a baby. Your actual procedural memory would have faded because you don’t do it frequently enough. Even a genuine scream out of pure fear would probably hurt your vocal cords if you aren’t trained to scream correctly.
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