Adults at petting zoos/farms/kids days out

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Has anyone else noticed a massive uptick in grown adults (many in late teens and 20s) going on days out aimed at kids/young families? I’m finding it increasingly irritating - small children having to queue behind grown adults to stroke rabbits or see tanks of fish.

(Exception where there is clearly a disability at play)

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You heard, everybody!
Wrap it up. Stop posting, that's enough.
Put down your drinks, haven't you got homes to go to? Nothing to see here.
If the last one out could turn the lights off on the thread, that would be grand, thanks. 😁

Go for it!

You might be able to get some ideas from the Museum of Childhood at Sudbury. The house is beautiful and worth a visit all for itself.

Read what I was responding to!

Until it gets up to 1000 replys, it will carry on OP.

Agree with CS Lewis.

When I became a woman, I put away childish things. When I hit 40, I got them all out again, because who gives a fuck? 😆

You are taking such a miserable and judgemental stance OP - too right we’ll keep on judging you until the end of the thread.

Yes a few people agree with you. However according to your poll the majority don't but you seem to be "one of those" OPs, insisting to the bitter end that you are right and everyone else is wrong.

It's true though isn't it?
Would you put other people's children before your own?
Most wouldn't.

Exactly! OP has said a couple of times that she's not coming back, so if anything, she is the one keeping it going!

The CS Lewis quote is very well observed - there is an awkward adolescent stage of sneering at others and cringing at how 'sad' they are, which is where the OP seems to have got stuck. Then with maturity comes an acceptance that other people behave and feel differently to you, and a self confidence and inner security that allows you to meet your needs and stop agonising over whether other people will judge you or not. All of us are doing something that another person would deem a waste of time or unbecoming to an adult or a professional - plenty of people sneer at women who post on Mumsnet as having too much time on their hands and being petty or embarrassing for enjoying a forum. I think the biggest waste of time is mocking other people for their hobbies.

As an aside, why does the OP think her job is paying for other adults' farm admissions?

This made me smile 😃.
Whats your rocking horse 🐎 called?

And if the lady would like a dolls house, why on earth not, some of them have far too much detail for a child's toy.

Now that I think about it, I knew a girl who had one that she wasn't allowed to play with in case she damaged it. We are adults now and God only knows what happened to that dolls house.

😂 I've been busy for the last half hour booking a few trips to a petting zoo, a fairytale themed woodland park, and a pick-your-own-pumpkin session on a farm. All over the next few weeks.

I will have NO YOUNG CHILDREN with me. I will be with DH at one of them, my late 20-something DD at another, and I will go with my 49 year old friend to the third one. All with NO YOUNG CHILDREN with us.

100% agree with your post @Thismachine (at 10.32.)

You come across as a very un-fun person.

As an aside, why does the OP think her job is paying for other adults' farm admissions?

Came here to say this 🤣

I assume she's implying they must be on benefits as too feckless and childlike to have jobs? Which is an insane assumption to make. The only Disney adult I know is someone from work and she's hugely successful and accomplished - I am in awe of her professionally. I guess going to Disneyland on her holidays is how she lets off steam! But she definitely doesn't need the OP to pay for any of it.

Yes I guess she must be... which is ironically some very childlike logic 🤣

That said I was pissed off when I took my kids to a disney musical and 2 women in front turned round and said ' I can't believe they let children into this!'. The kids were starstruck all the way through and didnt make a noise unlike the two middleaged women singing tunelessly along.

I had that at a pantomine - I mean a normal pantomine first one we took kids to. We were not only one with kids bar far just nearest for them to moan at. They did later come up and say how well behaved our kids were - but still.

I do not have an issue with adult lego or adults at petting zoo and MIL really enjoy park zip wires with DGC. That seems good for everyone.

It when adults start to moan that there are kids are there at all - starts to feel odd but that is rare and as PP have said flip side is many kids now being taken to traditionally adult venues which again is fine if they behave appropriately.

It seems to be in the wider picture of adults acting like kids.

There is an infantlising of young adults - expecting less of them but this seems a very poor example of that.

Yep, entirely agree and quoted that 10 pages back!

This turned out to be quite a fun thread and it just goes to show that the majority of people are young at heart when it comes to all things fluffy!

Yep, 9 out of 10 out of almost 1600 people - so far - disagree with the OP, yet she still keeps doubling own, insisting she is right, and grasping on desperately to the tiny minority of people who agree with her.

There seems to be a running theme at the moment, of OPs who post something utterly ludicrous, get their arse handed to them on a plate, and get told they are wrong by more than 90% of posters. But they won't back down, and admit they may have got it wrong, (or they still have that opinion but they accept the fact that most people don't agree.)

They get really snarky and obnoxious and keep taking the piss out of people, and mocking and laughing, whilst continuing to double down, and glueing themselves firmly to the handful of people who agree with them, saying 'thank you! YOU get it don't you. YOU are intelligent, and clever, and well educated, and really mature, just like meeeeeeeee.! 😆

And now I have to go to work! It's not just YOU who has a job @ExtraHotDoubleShot Other people have jobs too. Even those who go to petting zoos. 😎

@PrettyPickle I agree with SO much of your post on Monday @18:55. I haven't quoted it all as it is long but I specifically wanted to comment on the following.

I'd argue that one mark of maturity is being comfortable enough to enjoy things without worrying whether someone else thinks they're "age appropriate". Children often worry about looking grown up. Secure adults tend to be less bothered.

This 100%. I am in my 60s now, but I can remember when I was much, much younger - late teens, 20s - when I would be very aware of not seeming childish and shunned certain activities, even books, because I thought they weren't "grown up" enough. Thank goodness I eventually grew up enough to not care a jot what other people think and to do the things I enjoy regardless. Whether that is re-reading childhood favourites or buying a big Lego kit or whatever.

There's also a difference between: enjoying a petting farm because you like animals, and wanting to be treated like a child. An adult having a cuddle with a rabbit isn't pretending to be six years old. They're interacting with an animal. The rabbit doesn't care whether the person is 8, 18 or 80.
Quite. As many people on here attest, interacting with animals is beneficial to all ages. I personally haven't been to a petting zoo since my DD was small, but when she comes to visit now with her pet cat I just love to give him a cuddle.

As C.S. Lewis famously put it "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness."
That, to me, is a much more mature outlook than worrying whether stroking an alpaca looks grown-up enough.
Love that quote! I must remember it

My friend who is a “Disney adult” speaks 3 languages, she is from another country but I know her from London. She later relocated to the U.S. on a work visa a decade ago and works in a high paid tech job for a well known software company, she also owns two properties - that she bought by herself before she met her partner. She travels around the world visiting friends, family and sometimes for work. She has a thriving social life and has achieve a lot!

Op you haven’t disappointed either , I said upthread anyone who had your opinion was going to be lacking in intelligence and critical thinking and would struggle to consider things from alternative perspectives.

The fact you’re still insisting that you are paying for others admission is bonkers. Don’t you get it? A group of say 4 “childish” adults at a petting zoo, is going to bring in more admission fees for these venues than 2 adults with two kids or 1 adult with 3 kids.

I am no maths genius but it’s really not rocket science🤣

The kids are able to be charged less because adults - some with kids, some without - pay full price.

Good luck to your children with a parent like you sheesh lol hopefully they will grow up to be more open minded!

OP also says on the other thread happening now that women shouldn’t be allowed abortions.

She seems keen on adults not having choices for some reason.

Goats love Interaction with everybody. It's a bit bizarre to think it should be exclusively children who have the privilege of meeting goats.