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Hehe, I have every sympathy with anyone who wants peace and a decent sleep at camp and lack of consideration always rankles, but my experience of camping with my kids was mostly at folk festivals or Morris tours, when I wish someone had taught the morris men and other revellers about the 'camping voice'!   Especially at three in the morning, when they arrived back from the lock-in at the pub, tripping over guy ropes and singing folk songs incredibly badly!  The melodeons at midnight could have done with camping mufflers too!  Of course you expect some noise at these meets, but I did resent being told on the bus the next day by one of the men (not from our team) that "bloody kids should stay at home" because there were a lot of them in the party (which had been mooted as a 'family weekend'!) and they'd all got up at 8. am and woken the poor dear from his drunken stupor

After 35 years of that, I don't mind some night noise on a campsite in the night or early morning.  I just feel glad I'm not the one having to deal with it.  But I feel the same as most people here, there's reasonable and there's unreasonable.  Kids can be taught to play quietly in the mornings from a very early age, and ours knew all about amusing themselves in the tent and not making noise until they heard others moving about.  But then, they didn't make much noise at home in the early morning, and only got wild later in the day, when they were playing crazy games in the garden with the neighbour's little boy, then it was earplugs time.

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Those of us who have camped with babies/small children have been there with the screaming baby, wide awake child at 4.30 and the vast majority of us will be sympathetic towards the parents who are desperately trying to keep the child amused and quiet, or soothe the crying little one.
What people object to is those parent who allow their childern to run riot before 7 while they stay in the tent.    The sheer safety aspect of this horrifies me - not only because of the danger of tripping over guy lines etc. but when the kids are wondering into other peoples tents.    God forbid, but it could be a paedophile in the tent   
When ever Alice asks can she go to a 'friends' caravan/tent I alway make sure I know where about it is.

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