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I find that by looking for site with a children's play area usually guarantees that there will be other kids on site.   We've just got back, and the kids spent more time away from the tent than they did in it.   Even on the first night when it was teaming, they were out playing.  DVD didn't get used, and the painting set is still in its' wrapper.

The only time they moaned was when we went shopping,   They did get told off, after I couldn't get what I wanted in one supermarket, as they were playing up, going on about fancy cereals.  We then had to go to a dffferent one.   When Richard was in the shop I had words

YES there has been the odd occasion when they have been balled out, so that the rest of the site could hear.
Have heard other mums ball their kids out.

Most kids get bawled out at least one time per camping trip, surely? I thought it was part of Ye Olde Rules of Ye Camping? It's the ones that don't that are the troublesome ones.

Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 02/6/2008

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Most kids get bawled out at least one time per camping trip, surely? I thought it was part of Ye Olde Rules of Ye Camping? It's the ones that don't that are the troublesome ones.

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Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 30/5/2008

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Well, the  answer to this in our house would be "Tough". And in the deeply unlikely chance I did take him home then I would ensure 100% that home might well mean sleeping in his own bed and crapping in his own toilet, but it would also mean no telly, no PC, no playing with pals and a ton of chores, room tidying and homework.

Sure, children are allowed preferences, but they also have to learn to compromise and that doesn't mean ruining holidays for the rest of the family. The correct way for him to  have approached a hatred of camping would have been a serious discussion with you and dad and a suggestion of how to improve things, not throwing a pre-pubertal strop. But now he knows this works for him......

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100% agree with this

Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 02/6/2008

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Most kids get bawled out at least one time per camping trip, surely? I thought it was part of Ye Olde Rules of Ye Camping? It's the ones that don't that are the troublesome ones.

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and indeed with this

Thank goodness someone else takes this attitude, I was beginning to think we were on our own

A good horsewhipping won't go amiss either!

Eric