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?

Oscar Wilde didn’t say that, it was Jean-Paul Sartre.

Sounds amazing. How civilised!

Why would you take a really young child camping anyway? we took our baby to a caravan, she had a little cry at night as its a unfamilar environment but she had a comfy cot to sleep in, and we were inside so we did not disturb the family next to us as much.

It’s a factory produced car 😂🤷🏼‍♀️. It came like that OFF THE PRODUCTION LINE. Like most modern cars.

You know what’s stupid? Going to sleep in a field with hundreds of other people and

1- expecting silence in your flimsy fabric shelter
b, not taking ear plugs
~. complaining about incredibly average cars with ridiculous lights when you yourself would have driven there in an incredibly average car with ridiculous lights.

and

expecting to enjoy ANY of it.

camping is literally about roughing it. People that complain about camping in heavily populated noisy fields are similar to the unofficial lockdown police that would proclaim beautiful arsehole things like “ while doing my daily 1 hour walk today in my local country park I was shocked to the core to see so many people outside? Don’t they know its a pandemic ?! Stay at home!! So selfish !!”

You going over there isn’t going to change anything though is it? It’s annoying but if they could get their toddler to shut up and sleep they would.

I think it's part of camping. The child may be having a lovely time in the day. Stop waiting on the choices of others, it will ruin your holiday. You can decide what to do. Stay and put up with it, move pitch, get ear plugs, move camp site, down red bull, go home.

Yep i'm with you.
How is it a holiday to have worse conditions than you have at home?!

Email the site op. Quite hours need enforcing. Even if that means Chucky needs taking home.

😂

All the posters saying “it’s just what babies do”. Why should everyone else put up with babies and toddlers screaming, you chose to have them? Stop inflicting your noisy child and lack of sleep on other people it’s not their choice to endure

And childless people can CHOOSE to go to adult only camp sites. It works both ways.

you’re so entitled and selfish and unwilling to change your hobbies (camping) and lives to suit your new family?

I honestly don’t understand these parents who put their own selfish needs and hobbies before their tiny children & other campsite users.

What a nightmare for you!
They sound like selfish twats.
We have a camper van and only ever stay on adult only sites. No noise after 10 pm. Bliss!

So much "children should be seen and not heard" on this website 🤣

I'm sure the parents are doing everything they can to help the child. I also vote earplugs. In my view it's like choosing to live in a flat - you have to accept there will be noise from neighbours. Same if you decide to go camping.

We once camped next to people who decided to do CIO when camping. Which is beyond the pale. A child who cannot be consoled is another matter. What are they supposed to do? It’s all very well saying quiet hours should be enforced, and mostly they are if you ask, but I don’t think a family site can ask a family with a crying child to leave. I get really annoyed with noisy campers, especially the ones who play music, but even I wouldn’t complain about a toddler crying.

I sympathise with the car light show. I have one in my camper. Fortunately mine can be turned off (after an afternoon of googling with manual, along with the stupid auto-alarm that meant you couldn’t lock it and go to sleep without the alarm going off)

Exactly!

I love camping. But did I take my baby camping? No.

Did I wait until he was ready at age 4? Yes

Its literally that simple

I honestly think why would you go camping if noise gets to you as there will always be something. And it may be something new - maybe the child is having nightmares. For many camping is the only holiday that they can afford. So good earplugs are the way to go!

I would hate hearing other people's kids or their snoring which is why I wouldn't go camping. Sleeping that close to strangers with only a bit of plastic in between us? God no.

Also I'm sure the parents are having a miserable time too. The mum is probably on some other MN thread saying "my toddler won't sleep on our holiday. AIBU to stay and enjoy it anyway?". People complaining about screaming kids at night/on planes often sound as if the parents are choosing not to shut them up.

I love the idea of camping, being at one with nature, sleeping in the great outdoors under the stars, waking refreshed from all that fresh air to the melodic sound of birdsong or the gentle bleating of sheep. Opening your tent up to a beautiful sunrise and peace and tranquillity.

Unfortunately, the reality is being kept awake all night by stunningly selfish arseholes who think that a tent is a good place for a toddler to sleep, or that it’s ok to keep the whole site awake with their extreme snoring. Or both. Camping is not for toddlers. Or any entity that screams and cries a lot. If you know you snore like a steam train, don’t be a twat and sleep in something with no walls, you will keep a whole site awake.

So, I don’t camp anymore because of the lack of ability that some humans have to consider others 🤷🏻‍♀️

All the posters saying “it’s just what babies do”. Why should everyone else put up with babies and toddlers screaming, you chose to have them? Stop inflicting your noisy child and lack of sleep on other people it’s not their choice to endure

I agree with this too. It’s just piss poor preparation and parenting. I think it’s highly unlikely that a usually well behaved child and one who can usually get herself to sleep well suddenly turns into the devil child screaming blue murder simply because she’s in a tent. This little lady was never ready for a camping trip, they should have waited until she was older. Because who’s having fun here in the evening? Not the parents I imagine, not the toddler and now not the other campers either. It’s just plain stupid.

@YetAnotherSpartacus Crying at Chucky🤣

@Twiglets1 I'm with you on this one. Just do not get the whole camping thing...especially in this country where the weather is so unpredictable.

It’s like the beginning of park run. Getting your heels knocked about by a running Dad behind you pushing a buggy with a screaming child inside.

Why can’t parents realise they have new responsibilities which may involve hobbies being put on hold for a year or two.

Its just another level of performance parenting for that one Instagram “look, we’re an outdoorsy family” photo

😂 it’s so fake!

If it continued for more than a few nights, I'd go home. The first night away from home can unsettle small children, and I'd allow another couple to see if they'd settled down. But anymore than that I'd absolutely abandon it and leave, out of consideration for everyone else, and my own sanity.

@SizzlingAwayIntheHotSun you thought the Dutch couple were the rudest people you ever met camping? Yes that was probably because they were exhausted by your screaming children and yes, Dutch people are generally usually easy going and friendly so that says a lot about you.

I have this car….the lights just come one? How bizarre!