To expect parents to try to keep children quiet on campsites early in the morning?

[BobBobbity]

Camping this weekend at an event - lots of families, tents tightly packed in.

Me and the DC were woken up this morning at 6:45am by a group of children (would say 6-9ish age range) shrieking and shouting non-stop. No let up for about an hour.

AIBU to think parents should have tried to keep their noise down so early? My DC aren’t larks and normally sleep through anything but were both woken up and are already grumpy and tired.

Obviously some children wake up early and can be a bit excitable in a group, but this was soft-play-birthday-party level cacophony before 7am.

A little bit of consideration goes a long way in my opinion. What's the problem with asking your kids to keep the noise level down for a bit. I was going to suggest read a book or play a game for an hour but can see in this day and age how ridiculous that would be after a pp mentioned lack of screens.

Some of my Cubs got up at 4.30 once. (They were sent back to bed!!).

According to some here... should I have just let them out to play waking everyone else up? After all, its only kids playing....

It’s not condoning it just how can you control other people’s parenting? Therefore I don’t put myself in that situation any more. Just like I wouldn’t assume it would be silent at 11pm when I wanted to sleep. Or expect there would be no weird animal noises in the night..

Camping is sadly not a quiet activity. Rather than get annoyed in my tent about the lack of parenting I just wouldn’t go.

No the point of camping is more getting back to nature or a cheap holiday including nature. It’s not an excuse to not parent ffs.

No wonder we all hate these post covid campers. No manners or respect for other campers go back to Benidorm.

Except it’s not ‘basic common sense’, it’s a subjective judgement call. The question was whether it’s unreasonable for kids to be making noise on a morning at a busy public camp site. I don’t have an issue with noisy excited kids, sure they can be annoying but they’re not hurting anyone.
Micro managing kids enjoyment or sticking an iPad in front of their face so that you can enjoy a quiet cup of tea is about your consideration for yourself, or those who think like you. Personally I enjoy hearing children have fun. Please don’t berate your kids into silence on my account.
Why does any thread about lazy parents refusing to show common sense and basic courtesy with their children's behaviour always get reduced down to a false dichotomy of:
Option 1: let children run wild, show no consideration, no manners, make as much noise as they like, wherever they like and whenever like like because that's apparently the norm
Option 2: shove a tablet/iPad/phone in their face

Oh and if you don't accept wild and feral behaviour encouraged by lazy parents then you must hate children enjoying themselves?

I like hearing children having fun. I like camping with my children. Like many other sensible families we manage to have family fun and show consideration for others. The vast majority of families we meet camping are similar, also have children having fun, and also seem perfectly capable of not letting their feral children run wild at any hour.

I would expect the parent to try and keep them quiet, but I wouldn't go with the expectation that would actually happen. It's difficult, but I'd appreciate the effort, you're right to be annoyed if there was no effort made. But 6.45am isn't particularly early. I think adults going to an event that's aimed at kids/families need to try and get an early night so they're not pissed off about being woken at what is a reasonable waking-up time for children. If you go to bet at 10pm its not early, it wasn't 5am.

In my experience it's usually the adults who are the problem on campsites, not children. Not saying this is you OP, but I have little sympathy for adults who ignore the "quiet camp at 10pm" and get pissed, laughing and shouting etc. I wouldn't try and keep my kids very quiet at 7am if camped next to them, no (I speak from experience).

Well,camping is shit!

I don't think camping is for you.............