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 aggree, follow the posted rules. Do the rules say stay away from you?
I suppose you were never a kid. You would be right with them. What you call obnoxious brats are probably doing something they don't get to do very often and that is PLAY in a pool. You are the type that if you said something to my kids then I would ask them to step aside so I could show them the proper way to do a cannonball, right next to you.
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Kids running(although dangerous) and splashing in public pools is what's to be expected.
What bothers me is and I'm surprised it hasn't been addressed here yet, is how many unsupervised kids are running and splashing at the pools. Children lungs are very small it doesn't take to much for them to fill up.
Just because there is a pool doesn't mean you the parent shouldn't be there supervising them.
I truly believe that there are some parents who have the attitude that "Oh if something happens someone else will help them"
Summertime FUN! Cannonballs in the pool! Yeah Baby! I remember those days. "I wish those days would come back once more". We are done raising kids and do like some quiet so we just wait out most the summer. Why should we ruin it for them.....nobody ruined it for us!
As far as running through the store, thats a management issue that can be controlled.
Face it, ya just gotta either wait it out or go a bit farther off the beaten path. We were all kids at one time....right...bet ya had a blast!
Oh my God. Cannonballs? Lets call Homeland Security and get these little neo terrorists arrested.
Really? Cannonballs, running and yelling are you think indicitive of the end of american society? I guess you are one of those 'cranky' old people that my grandmother warned me about. She said something like, 'Crank old people were just cranky young people at one time'.
Have fun.
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fchammer1 wrote: Sure pools are for fun, but not unbridled fun. That's all part of the me generation.
Bingo. The OP wasn't complaining about the kids splashing - he or she was complaining about constantly BEING splashed. There's a difference. It's fun to throw balls too, but not when you throw them AT someone who doesn't want to play. Let the kids have fun, but when they are ruining the enjoyment of others around them, the parents need to step in and tone it down. Unfortunately, some parents can't see this as one of their responsibilities, and so they make excuses and say "kids will be kids". Yes, kids will be kids, but they don't have to be out of control, disrespectful, obnoxious kids!
I'm jealous, i wish i could go back to those days of cannonballs and having fun at the pool. Those were the days that i will always remember.
Even back then there were people that thought we should act like adults, I guess so we could grow up to be uptight as well.
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I agree, let kids be kids as long as they can. Life will slap them in the face soon enough. My grandkids are well behaved, and when I call them down, down they will come, but when at a waterpark, pool or anywhere else that is kid friendly, I let them do what we all did as kids. Just because kids will be loud and whatnot, does not mean that they will be bad adults. The kids that don't get to be kids, those are the ones that you will have to watch out for. JMHO.
retiredhappy wrote: Just spent four days at an RV park with a nice heated pool. Why do parents let their kids do "cannonballs' into the pool thereby splashing other swimmers constantly? And why do they NEVER ask their kids to stop yelling, screaming, running around the pool, etc. Does no one ever teach their children to be polite, respectful and yes, quiet anymore? I have grandchildren and would never allow them to disturb others as so many kids these days are allowed to do. What about letting your kids run through a store, handling everything and yelling to each other? Guess my age is showing - wonder what these kids will be like as adults.
I suggest you go to an adult only park or a seniors only park - there you will be not around kids bothering you.
The pool at the campground was COLD, so I was quite content to just sit on the edge with my feet in the water, supervising my child. The water was so cold that every time I got splashed, I cringed visibly. A woman yelled at her granddaughter for splashing me, and I said, "No, no, don't worry about that. If I'm not willing to get splashed, I don't have the right to sit at the edge of the pool."
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. You are the type that if you said something to my kids then I would ask them to step aside so I could show them the proper way to do a cannonball
, right next to you.
