Todays kids will turn out the same way we did. Remember when our parents told us how bad Elvis was and we should be listening to Pat Boone. I'll bet the percentage loving Elvis turn out just as well as the Boone fans. If the worst kids do is do cannonballs in the pool, yell, run, scream and have fun, be thankful. Some of you are expecting todays kids to act better than you did at the same age. I bet someone else id saying the same things about all our grandkids. It is unreasonable to expect quiet time at the pool where kids are welcome. Deal with it or go to adults only CG.
retiredhappy wrote: I understand the "fun" around a pool but parents are allowing their kids to do things that could be dangerous - i.e. running on cement, jumping into pool where if they slip could hit their heads, etc.
So you are to tell me that as a child you NEVER ran around a pool or did cannonballs??
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rshidler wrote: You can't seriously expect kids to be quiet in a pool!?! Making noise (screaming, yelling, laughing, etc.) in a pool should be expected. Don't go to a pool and expect peace and quiet.
Playing in a store is another matter.
Totally agree.
Expecting quiet at a pool is like expecting quiet at a rock concert. Totally unrealistic expectation.
I've been sitting beside a pool countless times (don't like to get in), and a child who splashes will apologize. I tell them there is no need to apologize, pools are for splashing and if I expected to not get splashed, I sure wouldn't be sitting there!
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I bet you think you are perfect and everybody else needs to change? I am sorry, but when I go to a pool at a "family" campground, I expect to see kids splashing, jumping and yelling. What fun would it be for a kid to go to a pool and stand in the water? Wow...let kids be kids! Let them have fun! The adult world is way to stressfull to not enjoy your childhood!
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Sure pools are for fun, but not unbridled fun. That's all part of the me generation.
I met one of those "ME generation" people the other day at Walmart. She was grown now and working in the card department. She had parked her supply cart (just an ordinary shopping cart with boxed cards in it.) in front of the particular cards that I wanted to peruse. She was five feet away. I looked at her, but she wasn't paying any attention to me the customer, so I moved her cart to the other side of the aisle.
At that point, she came over quite indignant and remarked, "Excuse me, I'm working here," and started to move the cart back. Honest!
Being quite large, I blocked her path and told her that I was shopping here, and that that particular card display was there for me, not for her.
If you don't nip it in the bud now, it will return to bite you... later.
rshidler wrote: You can't seriously expect kids to be quiet in a pool!?! Making noise (screaming, yelling, laughing, etc.) in a pool should be expected. Don't go to a pool and expect peace and quiet.
I for one am sick and tired of this "don't go here and don't go there" and "its all about the kids". I go to the pool to relax and float around in the water, not to be splashed and nearly drowned by obnoxious brats. Kids can splash all they want as long as they stay away from me. I am just as entitled to use the pool as any kid.
The pool in our campground has a rules sign that includes no running on the pool deck, no diving or jumping and no splashing. As soon as a kid starts acting up I point out the rules. If that doesn't do the trick I walk into the store (the pool is attached to the store) and ask the clerk to enforce the rules.
Its MY pool too!
I'm just saying that certain environments bring on certain behaviors. I don't go into a bar and complain about the drunks. I don't go into a library and expect to be able to talk loud. I don't go into an authorized smoking area and complain about the smoke!
It's good that you found a pool that has rules that support your desires. It's a shame that those rules don't support the little ones having the kind of fun that one would expect to see. Look at what you describe as "a kid acting up" ... did you not participate in those kinds of activities when you were a kid?
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