I'll be glad when school is back in session.

stro1965 wrote:

gmcsmoke wrote:

stro1965 wrote:


'Cause I said so.

spoken like a cop

It was supposed to be "spoken like a parent", but then maybe you have a chip on your shoulder?

I'm not the one who started a thread *****ing about kids running around "his" trees on "his" site which interrupted "his" quiet time. But hey it's your world we just have to live in it.

What "kids will be kids" meant 20 years ago and what that means now is like night and day.

Since I started RV'ing full time and spending more time in CG's across the USA, I was appalled to find out what kids are like today. They are so much 'up in your face' if you so much as look at them. They are not children anymore they are little criminals on their way to the big house and some to be feared. AND they are proud to be that way too.

Real sad, real sad what the next generation is going to be like.

When these little terrorists start in on me, my dogs or campsite I just go to the CG manager and ask to be moved. I don't complain, I don't go the parents, and god forbid don't talk to the kids as one forum member stated what comes out of their mouths. I just calmly ask to move to another campsite with little discussion of why to the CG owner.

I now instead of taking the 'next in line' site, I ask to be parked way out in the lower forty of the CG. Have not come across a CG that has ever denied me that request. Ahhhh, it's nice and quiet being away from everyone! :C

stro1965 wrote:
Yep. Let me be clear. It didn't ruin my day, it didn't ruin my trip, it didn't make me hate kids, its not the "biggest problem I've got", etc...

The disrespectful attitudes got to me a little. Kids should be supervised and, as far as I'm concerned, raised to respect others space and privacy. That's all.

The negative responses you have received are probably from the parents of a lot of these unsupervised kids that we are encountering more, and more these days. If those kids were taught the proper respect by their parents, most likely the only response you would have got from them was an okay.

OP said the place was packed, I suspect it was probably very loud all day, and probably hot given location.

Probably just wanted a little quiet time. I suspect maybe this last thing just set him off a bit. I could see myself being a little edgy.

In another circumstance may not have bugged him at all.

Don't think it makes either him or the kids bad people. Kids are just kids, but they can be annoying at times. And we adults can get a bit cranky at times

gmcsmoke wrote:

stro1965 wrote:


'Cause I said so.

spoken like a cop

It was supposed to be "spoken like a parent", but then maybe you have a chip on your shoulder?

Bob/Olallawa wrote:

stro1965 wrote:

D&Sluv2fishandcampMN wrote:

2012Coleman wrote:
The children described by the OP were not the darlings you are envisioning here. Once a child becomes rude and disrespectful, they are crossing a line. Maybe you tolerate this behaivor from a child, but most grown-up would not.

The OP might not have been the "darling" YOU are envisioning. How do we know that he was not "rude and disrespectful" first?.

'Cause I said so.

No power trip there for sure, it must have been the kids fault

It's not a power trip. Why on earth would I lie about it? Why would you or anyone else assume I was lying?

stro1965 wrote:
We were at a State Park this weekend. Park was packed. My wife and daughter and I were sitting around the campfire in the dark when the dogs started going berserk. There were kids walking through our campsite and, apparently, hiding from each other behind "our" trees. My wife asked a girl, maybe 12 years old, to please play somewhere else. She was told "you ain't my mama!"

A few minutes later, 3 or 4 of the little hooligans came back, obviously just to prove that they could do whatever they wanted. I got involved this time and a boy told me "you're not the police!" (I am, actually, but not in that county)

My voice raised a little higher than it probably should have at that point but they left, and I later heard an adult male tell them to "get over here" and they were gone for the night.

I can't wait for school to be back in session so I don't have to tolerate other people's rude, inconsiderate, unsupervised children. Rant over.

What you describe is EXACTLY why we mostly RV in the fall, winter, and spring (isn't retirement great). We've been-there/done-that in the raising of our kids and don't care to start all over again with other people's kids.

Of course, we do sometimes take our grandkids with us in the summers!
;)

stro1965 wrote:


'Cause I said so.

spoken like a cop

stro1965 wrote:

D&Sluv2fishandcampMN wrote:

2012Coleman wrote:
The children described by the OP were not the darlings you are envisioning here. Once a child becomes rude and disrespectful, they are crossing a line. Maybe you tolerate this behaivor from a child, but most grown-up would not.

The OP might not have been the "darling" YOU are envisioning. How do we know that he was not "rude and disrespectful" first?.

'Cause I said so.

No power trip there for sure, it must have been the kids fault

D&Sluv2fishandcampMN wrote:

2012Coleman wrote:
The children described by the OP were not the darlings you are envisioning here. Once a child becomes rude and disrespectful, they are crossing a line. Maybe you tolerate this behaivor from a child, but most grown-up would not.

The OP might not have been the "darling" YOU are envisioning. How do we know that he was not "rude and disrespectful" first?.

'Cause I said so.