What did you do when teenagers no longer want to camp?

TOMMY47 wrote:
Go Dogs--First of all--Don't let them bury their faces in the phone and computer. I believe the parent pays the bills and, therefore, controls the devices.
I was in Bryce this summer. A large 5th wheel pulled up with apparent grandparents and 1 surly boy, wearing his cap pseudo-gangster style, about 14. He didn't want to go sightseeing and wanted to stay at the 5th. They planned to be gone 5+ hours. The grandfather said OK.
I would have said OK, gotten him out of the 5th for a second and locked the door. He could spend the next 5 hours hanging around outside the 5th or the visitor center.
Zero chance of him being inside playing on the phone, sleeping, watching TV.

What, pray tell would that have accomplished, other than making the next trip ten times worse? I'm a grandparent now, but I can remember when I was a teenager. Part of life for a young person is learning to be an adult. It's up to the parents to figure out how to be smarter than the teenager. A battle of wills, doesn't prove anything. It just teaches the kid that force wins over intellect. Isn't that a good thing?