At Glastonbury and I’ve just had a row with twat in the next tent

[Glasto]

Family camping. Absolutely boiling so brought DD back to the tent to have lunch and sit in the shade for the 12-2 bit. Been out since 9 this morning around the festival.

She’s sat in the foyer bit of the tent reading her kindle when performance parent dad from next door comes back to his tent with his kids.

He spots dd and gives her a jovial “oh come on now you shouldn’t be sat in their on a tablet you’re at Glastonbury”. His kid piped up oh we don’t have our tablets do we daddy. Dad is looking at DD and says come on put it down there’s a whole world out there you’re missing

I popped my head out of the tent and said she’s not on a tablet she’s reading a book. He said it doesn’t look she is, I was hot and pissed off and said it’s a kindle and if she wants to go on her tablet that’s not really your business.

He then goes on a 2 min rant about kids on tablets missing out on life. I told him again she isn’t on a bloody tablet and again, it’s not your business. He then accuses me of being rude and says he was only trying to help and says come on DS let’s leave these two to sit in their tent

They are literally camped 2 ft away from us

Can't wait : could you really just climb over the fence years ago at Glastonbury? I've heard others say it , but must have been a trek to the venues!

I like the term performance parenting. It is neat shorthand for the type of parent we all hate.

What a twatter. How old is your daughter? I was - still am - a big bookworm when I was a child and if I was told to put a book down to experience life I'd tell people that all life was in books and they should shut up*. Who knows if I was still that child I might make twatman cry.

*n.b. I was a precocious little twat to be fair.

@howwudufeel what type of parent is that? The parent who is neglectful? Disdainful? Abusive? I wouldnt use the term hate, but these are the 'type' of parents I might judge.

@The80sweregreat, yep you could. It was also a lot smaller in those days. I have quite a few friends who did it way back when.

@MisterT373 🤣

@CampfireZen that video is bloody wonderful; it really tickled me!

Beardybutton parents who talk loudly to their dc and think everything they do is fucking amazing and all other parents should be in awe of them.

If u talk with him again drop mansplaining on him .

Until about the late 1980s, when they put a huge iron fence , loads of people used to fence hop.

I think that's where Trump got the idea from.

Channel your inner Howard Keel tomorrow morning at 5am. All together now ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning’.

You’ve obviously got wifi there so search for some cockerels crowing and play on the hour every hour throughout the night.

I am old and would hate Glastonbury. My bladder couldn’t cope and I don’t like loud music or crowds.

@howwudufeel i still dont understand why its ok to hate performance parents. So they speak loudly about how great they are at parenting. So they care enough about parenting to want others to think they are good at it. I ve no problem with this. Worst case scenario they think they are brilliant parents, in which case they are probably at least committed to trying to be decent parents. Best case, they are trying their best but feel unconfident and need approval. And its these parents we hate? I have seen some cases of neglect. My censure is reserved for a very different type of parent. But you know, if it makes people feel better about their own parenting to label someone else.....

So they care enough about parenting to want others to think they are good at it. I ve no problem with this.

I bloody do. Especially at 8am on the way to work.

Beardybutton I hate them because they are fucking annoying show offs.

When you care about parenting and care about your children you don't actually need other people to know it, you just get on with it because that's your life. Performance parenting is annoying because those people are just huge fucking show-offs and are probably nowhere near as good as they think they are at parenting.

Imagine instead someone who likes having all of the sex and thinks that they're great at it and wants the world to know all about it. How much time would you want to spend with that tedious bastard going on and on about how they're so good at reverse cowboy and that they actually squirted last night and oh my you should have seen it? Not much I'm thinking. That's what performance parenting is. Reverse cowboy squirty McSquirting in public.

I bet the security is huge these days.

@pepperpot99 can we be friends?!

My view is, if you want an audience, join an AmDram group. Don’t expect me to be impressed while you fail to get your equally attention seeking child under control.

Looking forward to more twat dad updates :)

A turd outside his tent doorway in the night should help wipe away some of that smugness.

Even after the fence you could still get in, they used to use a luminous stamp and people would reproduce it and stamp you for £20 so you could get in even into the early 90’s.

The performance parenting, just kill him with a head tilt and a comment about how his children obviously are as committed as readers as your daughter and perhaps he should consider Kumon for them.

Glastonbury this year is not the same. Only one member of the family performing, and not on one of the main stages.

Whilst I don't agree with the comment or the approach by the stranger to the OP, Kindles or tablets just seem so not in the spirit of a festival.

I was at Glastonbury in 1995 and we cheered as a group of lads threw a rope ladder up the fence and climbed over!

Maybe the families with kids are all down from Scotland. today was our last day and honestly my DS class haven't done anything useful since the residential trip the second week in may. It's been the school show, the school fete, the fun run in the park, the ceilidh practice to be ready for the P& ceilidh, the sports day, and several short homework free weeks with 1 day holidays and inservice days. I regret we didn't go along on DH's business trip last week, playing tourist in Dublin would have been more educational than the last month in school.

(that is some high quality place marking there my friends)

I knew it was huge, but I'm blown away by the amount of stages there are. As well as the other tents etc.
It must take hours to walk around it all.
I did enjoy Radiohead's set the other year.
it always appeals until I see the crowds. Then it doesn't.