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?

My Dad's car does this pathetic, tired fart sound every time he activates the central locking system. Like a hooter that only half works.

I recall our old Fiat camper van (bought late 70s). We had some great times camping in it.

Ffs, all the people commenting about MY CAR and iTs AWFUL (absurdly standard, factory fitted lights).... its not a problem for demos campers or epileptics or even aliens watching for xenon morse code from space BECAUSE I would

A- never unlock the car at night and start said X ray light show to trigger epilepsy.

1. Not take a crying toddler camping

• I'm currently in a hotel in Corfu so will thankfully skip the camping experience this year. d, if I buy the property I'm looking at later then thank god, I'll never ever have to camp again.

And yes, I'm sure I COULD turn my car lights off if I wanted to but as I'm NOT BLOODY CAMPING AND WOULD NEVER UNLOCK THE CAR it seems a really ridiculous point for the whiny arse campers to be pushing 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

Why on earth would you have a car that does a light display every time you open it? What is the point

It’s not that unusual. We have one that does something similar. It is finding the right level for the headlamps so it doesn’t blind oncoming drivers. It isn’t clever enough to know when we are camping.

I don't expect silence on a campsite.
I think it's selfish to make prolonged, loud disturbing noise during the core sleeping hours which are usually 11-7 or thereabouts.

When we did a short camping trip with 2yo DS2, we had to put him in the car to settle to sleep then transfer him out to reduce disruption to others. This was about 9pm when the DIY festivals were going strong. No one wants to listen to babies/ young children crying for longer than is necessary.

I've ended up walking a baby DS1 around in a pram in the early hours until he could go back to sleep because I didn't think it was fair to risk waking half the hotel. I wasn't sleeping anyway so a walk made more sense than sitting in the room ineffectively shushing him.

A certain amount of noise happens, but there is a limit on what you should expect other people to tolerate repeatedly/ for prolonged periods. I've more patience for people who are clearly trying in demanding circumstances than those that expect everyone to suck it up.

Wait for quiet then start making really loud sex noises. I'm sure they will pack up and leave next day hahahaha
Obviously a joke. Maybe just release find some slugs or other bugs and release them near their tent.

Sounds awful Op! It's not an acceptable level of noise. And those saying 'move tents' have obviously never been camping with kids!

We enjoyed it while it lasted but when the head gasket went it was time to say goodbye! Was v old and quite unreliable x

Just because you go on holiday, does not automatically entitle you to the pleasure of being away from other people who might annoy you.

Back to Sartre, you can interpret it whatever way you like. I am of the opinion that Hell is other people and their screaming children and dogs ANYWHERE.

Going camping is a choice (and one that I would never choose personally), however it's when kids and dogs take over other parts of my day to day life that I get the fucking rage.

Wait for quiet then start making really loud sex noises.

Surely it would be much more fun to just have actual sex.

My parents used to take us camping as children, they slept in the lovely warm motorhome and we slept in the cold tents, the noise and sweaty feeling/cold feeling of the tent has put me off for life.

OMG this reminds me of one of the worst nights of my life...DS was about 5 and we'd gone camping with a group of people we didn't know well, some of whom had babies. DS started screaming in the night ( really unusual for him) and couldn't explain what the matter was.. Calpol didn't work, cuddles, nothing. I ended up taking him to the toilet block where we spent hours on the cold hard floor. Awful. He's 21 now and I still remember it, I was so mortified I couldn't stop him crying when everyone else's babies were sleeping soundly until he woke them.!
Have to say, the car option didn't occur to me, I was so frazzled. We actually did go home early, I wasn't up for another night of that!

Surely everyone knows that to enjoy camping you have to take very good earplugs or be passed out blind drunk. Don’t blame your tent neighbours on your own camping faux pas OP!

"we went to pizza hut (or whatever) for a few years....Instead of expecting the whole world to fawn over you for pushing Jocasta and Florian from your nether regions - how about you pay attention to where you might reasonably be welcome with children and where not"

Holy cow @Brefugee how did you know my kids names? And don't forget little Octavia. She's only 2 but absolutely loves camping. She likes to throw dirty nappies in the bushes...we try to stop her but she's too much of a free spirit.

And we have tried pizza hut.....but the vegan gluten free options just aren't up to scratch I'm afraid.

@Mysaucepanbroke All ok here thank you for asking.

More importantly, I hope you're ok. A buggy to the back of the legs sounds pretty harrowing. I bet the smug bastard dad didn't apologise.

It must have been one of these really obnoxious big buggies to cause a 2 week injury. Do share the brand name. I must get one for my local park. I don't even have kids...but there are a few miserable old buggers I'd love to chase.

An older friend of mine went camping, with his wife, some years ago.

Suddenly in the middle of the night he got cramp in his leg and shouted out in pain/surprise.

He asked his wife to bend his leg back etc - as you do…..

Shouting from another tent….. BE QUIET, THIS IS A FAMILY SITE.

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Some on here have mentioned adult only sites……. Not sure if this guarantees peace and quiet.

We were wild camping by the shores of a lake in our campervan. 2 or 3 other vans there too. Normally by 7 or 8 any cars, families, BBQers etc in the car park have gone home and we’d all be by ourselves and it’d be peaceful.

But one car stayed…. 1 man in 30s, 3 younger women. Doors open, stereo on loud. They’ve no tent. BBQ on shores, drinks, campfire.

Gets to 9, then 10. Still no let up. We went to bed. 3 am and they’re looking for sticks for their campfire, bright lights.

Every now and then they’d quieten down/I’d drop off to sleep and so I never quite got to the stage of shouting back.

So adult only sites - not always the complete solution?

There are campsites where this is possible.

My filters include;
No EHU
No generators allowed
Pitch where you like, loads of space, not squashed together in rows
No amplified music or amplified anything allowed
Compost toilets
Cars not allowed on the camping field: lug stuff on barrows. Maybe allowed only to unload and pack up.

There are lots of these wild style : eco / off grid campsites and they tend to deter all the things described on this thread.

I am not in favour of relaxing wild camping rules in England because our wild spaces are under enough pressure and there are too many people who don’t respect them, as the summer of 2020 demonstrated.

I loved camping before I got too old and decrepit for it, and always went in term time to minimise child-related noise.

That's not infallible though. We had the misfortune to have a family with quite a small baby and a toddler pitch up near us. When the toddler wasn't tantrumming, the baby was crying, and after 3 nights of next to no sleep, we were seriously considering going home.

Thankfully, we weren't the only ones bothered by the noise. On the fourth morning, the family packed up and left, and we later found out that several other campers had complained and the family had been asked to leave.

We tried to book adult-only campsites after that. Mind you, at one of those we were kept awake for a couple of hours for 2 nights running by loads of Chinooks flying overhead for an hour or more. (God knows why, we were nowhere near any military or air bases.)

I love camping sex 🤣

Gosh, my suffering seems to have generated some strong feelings. I’m now several hundred miles away, far from the inconsiderate parents. For clarification - the screaming was pretty intense 10.30 -11.30, 1.30 - 2, and again at 4. Not baby crying, but toddler screaming and shouting ‘No!’. It wasn’t a really a family campsite - no playground or anything like that. I could understand one or two unsettled nights, my sympathies would have been with the parents - but to inflict it on everyone else for four nights without a word of apology- very inconsiderate! They looked me in the eye and said nothing! I’ve done a lot of camping and sleep well through normal noises, even ear plugs wouldn’t have helped with the piercing screams! I wasn’t actually going to shake their tent either!

And camping is not cheap!

No you shouldn't it's none of your business what they are doing. They are not their to please you and the world dosent revolve around you.
Refrain from engaging with them unless you are going to be friendly.

Why do people think it's ok to make noise after midnight? Whether it's screaming children, barking dog or partying, the sense of entitlement on here is horrendous. We were brought up to ensure we didn't impact other people's enjoyment, and it's a shame more people don't have a bit of consideration 😣

Girlfrien - are you the mum 😮? What they (you?) are doing isn’t my business until it affects me ( and all the other campers!). The world doesn’t revolve around me or them, what an odd thing to say.