What do you think?

My son (3) is just such a happy boy, he genuinely loves life & when with his friends he runs around with him screaming, and just having fun. I get some people him screaming and running around may be annoying. But because he’s having fun and happy I never tell him to stop and be quiet, as I don’t want to dampen his shine.
Anyway yesterday I met my friend and everytime my son and friends daughter come together they’re wild (but in a nice way) and I heard my friend say to another friend ‘everytime my daughter is with him she’s always screaming and running around, I’m sick of it’ and I feel like deep down she must think my son is an issue!
So I confronted her and said I heard what you said and I’ll never tell my son to stop, he’s happy and this is why he’s expressing him self in such a way.
Am I wrong?

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Of course you’re not, and honestly good on you for speaking up! It’s so unkind to speak about a child like that, it’s what they do!! Your friends daughter probably loves it too, I imagine if mums sick of it then she probably doesn’t do much running and screaming at home!

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Do you literally mean screaming or just playful noises on the loud side? I think screaming is a unpleasant noise; it's an alert system evolved to warn others of danger so not something many people can ignore.

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