Screaming child in tent next door

[Sittininafield]

AIBU to think the parents are selfish knob heads. Fourth night in a row. Toddler screams from 10.30 till 11.30 ish every night and then periodically every couple of hours. Not sad baby crying but toddler tantrum screaming and shouting. I am beginning to think it is the spawn of satan. Why would you go camping if your child doesn’t sleep, and why wouldn’t you go home out of consideration for others after a couple of nights? They are quite now but I’m awake since the last screams at 3.30. Should I go and shake their tent in sleep deprived, demented re-wenge?

Makes me think girlfrien is the Mum too!

We spent £500 for two nights “glamping” to help a friend begin there new business. We left in the middle of the night of our first night also thanks to a child throwing constant tantrums.

Despite my other half and the owner of the site speaking to the parents, they said it wasn’t up to them to keep their child quiet at night! Unbelievable response, long story short, apparently other families had to leave the first night too as no one could sleep. It wrecked our friends business before it even became known.

Disgusted that people cannot understand how much this sort of behaviour can upset the rest of us! It’s put us off camping for life.

We always rent 2 pitches so other tents aren't as close and we pitch on the non hook up areas also only camp in term time , no kids so peaceful

It was actually Jean Paul Sartre who said « hell is other people « Sorry to correct but got a French Lit degree 🤣

Maybe the toddler isn't usually much of a crier, maybe they are upset over being made to sleep in a tent - I wouldn't be impressed myself tbh, camping is not my thing. All out of routine in a strange place. I get that it's annoying for you, I really do! But I'm sure a parent wouldn't take a child camping if they knew this was gonna happen.

Try having 3 kids banging football's against a metal shed all day and the parents just shut the door on them, we have dogs so back door has to stay open, this goes on from 7am till 10pm the neighbors just ignore the kids

Start having prolonged performance sex with much screaming and shouting and multiple loud orgasms. Stun the tantrumming one into bewildered silence

Yes, I actually think you’re being totally unreasonable. I don’t normally post but I felt impelled after reading yours. If you’re not happy, then maybe you should just cut your holiday short and go home. You obviously have no kids or can’t remember what it’s like having a child that young that you sometimes cannot control. My little boy is 3yo and has been sleeping in his room through the night from 8 months. I’m not currently on holiday.. I’m actually at home, but the last week my little boy has been crying through the night.. not a tantrum .. clearly distraught but he’s got great lungs and I’m sure someone might perceive it to be a tantrum. It’s not like him at all.. but it’s some fussy phase .. So maybe
have some empathy for the poor parents who have to cope with all that through the night. Who probably thought tomorrow might be a better night. Have some sympathy for the poor child who is clearly distressed. Sometimes little people don’t behave like we think they would.. some things are unfortunately beyond our control as parents.. I never understood that before kids.

Or as Jean Paul Sartre said, l'enfer c'est le camping

What did you expect!? It’s the summer holidays and you are in a tent. SMH..

So? You chose to reproduce. You made that decision. Don't impose the result of your choice on other people.

Why not be a really kind neighbour and ask them if there's anything that you can do to help? It's possible that this little one has disabilities, regardless of the child's needs the parents must be exhausted too.

New cars are like that now. Mine sends bat signals out of both wing mirrors but I didn’t find that out until I took delivery. It’s not the kind of thing they show you on a test drive.

Not unreasonable at all. It's your holiday too. I'm a regular camper and I love the idea of people getting their kids into it and understand that you can't always plan little uns struggling with it. That said, my most recent trip involved kids running around squealing at 6am and footballs hitting the tent at about 7am.
Some parents are just selfish.

Adult only campsites have been invented. I cannot tolerate noisy brats and always go to sites where none allowed 😂

Surely that's the opposite of performance parenting? That's just being an arsehole.

We camp a lot but if you camp near other campers, it is rarely a good night of sleep. I prefer wilderness style. If I have to be in a campground, I choose the site the farthest away from other tents. Others can have the sites with a view, I want the site that will best muffle sound!

Between drunks, conversations that carry in the night, people going in and out of tents and banging into things and tripping, people laughing, snoring, kids crying, dogs barking and cars driving in and out....sleep is rare.

Snoring is probably the worst for me. It makes me want to do harm.

I’d say… if it’s bad for you it’s probably 10x worse for the parents trying to deal with it. And no I wouldn’t go home because sometimes you need a holiday/time away and it’s important. I can honestly say you wouldn’t receive a warm reception if you approached my tent while my toddler was having a tantrum - that is putting it lightly.

Saying that, I like my sleep so I get where you’re coming from. Is there any chance of moving? Not ideal if you’ve set up but it might allow you to enjoy your stay.

I remember the time DH and I went camping and the tent next door were playing Postman Pat songs on some kind of loop.

🎶Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat SHUT UP YOU TWAT

I have been a Camper for most of my life, a hobby that has followed on in my now adult Children. When my next eldest daughter was around 7years old, we pitched our tent on a very nice farm camping site near Conwy in North Wales.
the First morning we were there, we all jumped to the Car and headed off to Llandudno to buy food and head off up the Great Orme to give the girls the experience of riding on the historic Tram and Cable cars. They were all junior school age at the time, and l was 30 weeks pregnant with my 4th child.

When we arrived back to the campsite, a young couple had arrived onto the next pitch in a folding trailer tent they had borrowed off their parents. We got chatting to them, and they explained that this was their Honeymoon, and they had booked in to stay for a week. We had just planned to stay for a long weekend due to work commitments, but my daughters actions soon made it a bit awkward, and we packed up and left the site early!
The Honeymooners we’re out to regularly do what Honeymooners do, and not quietly either! My youngest who was Five at the time, put the noises during the night to the ‘Lady having a nightmare about the Spiders in the Toilet Block’ but her older Sister knew a bit more after my ex and his Girlfriend making a similar racket during her access visits, which DD then gave a demonstration of to my rather Snobby Sister in Law, who was shocked!.

These noises went on through the next night too, and even kept me awake. DD decided that she had had enough of it, so she got up and had slipped outside of our tent before I managed to stop her, she proceeded to bang on the metal raised part of the Trailer tent and and shouted loudly at the couple to Shut up or she would tell the warden about them the next day!
Needless to say, by the time we returned from the Snowdonia mountain pass that Evening, the Couple had packed up and left the site, partly down to their own fault for choosing a Family oriented site in the height of the main School Holidays!
There is an hilarious Thread on one of the U.K. camping forums outlining similar situations people have found themselves in regarding noises and sights during camping trips. Another one is the shadows thrown onto the sides of tents when fairly powerful lighting is used within, and the light show of campers going about their daily lives, often without any knowledge that others can clearly see them doing so! The thread title is N..k.e in a Tent!

Toddler could be ill, teething etc. You need a bit of Compassion, you sound deranged.

Four nights makes them arseholes. One night fine, second night they probably thought it would get better (I’d give up then), third night proves it’s not working and should 100 percent leave. Fourth night means they don’t give a shit about anyone else.

I don’t camp (because it’s fucking awful) but I have a friends who are enthusiastic campers with their children. They all did test runs before they go actual camping, even if they’ve been before, when the children were small. I know not everyone has a garden, but most people who camp seem to, or else could go to someone else’s garden. Less of a surprise that way.

Same way in the USA!

Totally agree, especially on a campsite. Unfortunately there are to many selfish people these days. Hope is sorts itself out😫

OMG... I would have to say something thats a pain in the neck and ruined your break !!! I would go Camping where Kids are NOT Allowed so much better Adults ONLY :) Good Luck next time :)

@Stabbitystabstab let me guess, you're not short of money, as well as sympathy and intelligence!