AIBU to be disgusted by parents and children at holiday parks?

This happens everywhere sadly, I have seen this behaviour recently at national trust places on days busy with families, and also Center Parcs (although I’m unsure why this is always used as an example of being superior to Haven or whatever, I go to both and nowadays don’t see a huge difference in the clientele at all 🤷‍♀️) Besides the point, why the assumption with some posters that ‘middle-class’ means better behaviour??

But yes- behaviour is definitely going downhill. I go to the theatre a lot and have found the etiquette there has declined hugely in the past few years!

See, my parents hitting us did make us behave. You got a clip round the ear, a smacked arse, or sometimes a slapped face. We were scared of our parents, even though 99% of the time they were lovely. But you knew that if you misbehaved, you'd see the 1% and get a wallop.

Children aren't afraid of their parents any more, and I'm not sure that's a good thing. I know a few kids who really play up around their parents, but absolutely tow the line for grandparents, who won't put up with any bullshit.

I got battered within an inch of my life for doing things that children these days wouldn’t even get an eyebrow raised at
It wasn’t getting battered that stopped me doing it
It really does have to come from within

A few things spring to mind, that are different to when I raised mine in the 90's -

1. you are no longer allowed to smack kids

2. the introduction of mobile phones - lost count of how many parents just doom scroll and don't parent

3. naughty kids are always assumed to be ND

Shame was also used as a tool to use and abuse people, predominantly women and children. It’s definitely a very double edged sword.

All this bollocks about how bad shame is and how it hurts peoples feelings. Shame is what used to keep people in check……what used to encourage people to not behave like a selfish, inconsiderate fool….what used to encourage people to get off their arse and better themselves. Now it’s just a load of pathetic nonsense, crying and whinging because someone dared to ask you to stop little Timmy or Tyrone or Krystal from doing whatever fresh hell they’ve dreamed up. Children today are being spectacularly failed by their parents.

Tale as old as time.

You have done a good job of making yourself look stupid with that comment.

Society is broken and there are millions of us who are feral. This has been building for decades and is now irreversible.

As an old later waiting for a knee replacement I do find that if I am jostled, especially by feral kids, my legs do tend to inadvertently go in all directions! Whoops, sorry dear.
It's not entirely new though, about 25 years ago I recall telling a pupil to pick up the crisp packet she'd thrown on the floor. She refused, that's why schools pay cleaners, she was doing them a favour creating a job for them! Sadly, her breeder was thick enough to agree with her sprog when the Head of Year phoned her!

Teachers have being saying for ages that behaviour is going down the pan. People in life generally these days can be terribly selfish and rude. I worry for the future.

We never used the holiday clubs, but we did enjoy the entertainment. It was a bit bittersweet last year as she’s too old to join in , but she still wanted to go every night to awww at the cute little ones and she still remembers all the dances/moves.

Going there again early summer with family. We’ve done the holiday parks with young children and grandchildren, back in the day. I love CP as it gives them so much freedom. They’ll spend most of their time on bikes, in the pool, and show up for food. We haven’t encountered any terrible behaviour from adults or children on visits there over the years.

A UK holiday park in the Easter hols is, I'm afraid, is notoriously one of those "pile 'em high, flog it cheap" type places.
They do tend to, unfortunately, attract a certain demographic.

I've never got the appeal of holiday parks or all inclusive. I don't get the provided entertainment or kids clubs either. If you're on holiday as a family surely you enjoy your time together as a family and don't farm the kids off elsewhere for someone else to look after. I can't imagine ever even thinking about using them for my three.

Yes, because on the whole people who have bad teeth have/had parents who fell short in bringing up their children and that poor parenting perpetuates through to the next generation.
People who value fake tans and are heavily made up probably have values that are superficial and are probably also on the lower end of the intelligence spectrum or they would realise how stupid it looks.

Intrigued as to where you are. Sounds absolutely wild!!!

Tbh, a lot of the more well off parents are as bad, if not more so. Self entitlement goes off the scale when you have parents of children who think theyre better than others..

I also notice that people behave much worse since covid.
Havent experienced the same as OP but come across rude self-absorbed people every day.

Twas ever thus.
British parents have often been lax in comparison to many other nations. A relation 50 years ago used to help run an International school in Germany for families of many different nationalities.
They had to ban British children ( but no other nationality) because their behaviour was so awful.
Eg French parents are much more strict. (However left on their own French children can be truly awful too.)

That sounds insane!

I think as a society we dont seem to work out what needs to be done to prevent people becoming violent.
As obviously there must have been life circumstances that made people behave nasty but surely just excusing them and letting them do harm to other people isnt right.

Of teeth? Turkey teeth, no teeth, one tooth, gold tooth.

Not snobby just having basic standards . . .

My local Lidl is great. We were talking about COVID yesterday and I said one of my favourite moments looking back was being in Lidl, family in front of me got the last loaf. Little boy held it up proudly and I said how lucky he was as my husband wasn't going to have any toast. Just a jokey comment from an old lady. His mother took the loaf off him and offered it to me. I thanked her and said it was fine my husband would survive. At a time when people were panicking about shortages I thought that Lidl customer was lovely.

I just knew this thread would descend into snobbery.