To think that certain people should be banned from public parks

[ElleBing]

We have a really lovely park near where we live. It's really big, with lots of grassed areas for picnics etc then an enclosed play area.

DH and I took DS there yesterday for a quick run around before dinner time. I noticed that a group of chavs had set up camp next to the enclosed park whilst their kids ran amok inside. The chav parents were sitting on the grassy bit drinking cider, eating junk food and swearing. Two of their kids started fighting one another and rather than try and intervene, the person who I assume was the father sat in the kids' pushchair screeching at the LOs to stop fighting. They carried on drinking their cider before deciding they were going home to "watch Nanny McPhee on pirate wiv a bag ov chipz" then when the motehr of one of the LOs wanted the child to leave the play area she started shouting "come on will ya pooface" Eugh?

All of the other parents were doing cats bum mouth, not just me. I wanted to tell them to shut up with their common mouths and bad language but too middle class, you see? I'dlove to be able to stand up to these people who make life unpleasant for everyone else...

Anyway, DH were talking about them and I said that people like them shouldn't be allowed in parks. They should have an admissions policy. AIBU?

OK, reading back I can see how my OP sounds condescending. But I still stick with my original points about inappropriate behaviour in areas where LOs are about.

And whilst I'm getting a good ol' flaming, here's something else to chuck on the bonfire; the children had frightfully common names. Bleugh.

Frasersmummy, the actual play area is kind of cordoned off from the grassed area with railings so they may as well have been sat in the play area.

besides, I know you're just on a wind-up so I won't argue the finer points of what I just said.

ha EB now you are taking the p**s

pooface, nanny mcphee, being in park- trust me you3 sxperienced the positive end of [poor aprenting elle!

Thes epeople wre uoltimately child focussed if not foing it your way

I am taking the piss a little bit, FM. A teeny tiny bit.

Such a teeny, tiny bit that I am verging on the boarder of being appalled by the names thrust upon these innocent. But I am not appalled, just taking the piss.

I wouldn't have liked my dc to be around those people either.However unless their behaviour directly affects other people then there is little that can be done about it because a park is a public place. That doesn't mean their behaviour was acceptable. A lot of people are keen to protect these peoples right to use the park and behave how they wished, but these people weren't concerned with the right of Elle to not listen to them shouting and swearing

Border, ffs.

Thankyou Saslou.

You just said what I wanted to say more articulately than I could.

Was it me?..I was down the park yesterday with Jayden and Kayden...only till six o clock tho I am out on a tag

Its your choice to stay sitting nearby, I would have moved off somewhere quieter. We all have a choice, to stay or to go.

They chose to stay, so did you....

at "frightfully common names" - do tell........

I knew a child once called Tia Maria (honest I did).

How do you explain to a two year old that the trip to the park he's been looking forward to all day is going to be cut short because of some chavs with verbal incontinence and the desire to give everyone lung cancer then, Beanpot?

OK JollyPirate, I'll indulge you.

They were called Cain and Kylie

If you can't afford to move to Crouch End, Hampstead or I dunno, Surrey? Gloucestershire (sp?) you have to put up with the varied charms of our whole society.
A gated community with security might suit you.
Or somewhere like Malibu with long private beaches.

Regents Park playgrounds and parks in Kensington are full of rich Yanks and French people and their kids. That Lady Di park is well Posh.

Hm! Cain I don't mind - not keen on Kylie though tbh. No idea if it is a chav (whatever that is) name or not. Haven't heard either of them in a while and I live on a sink estate courtesy of my local council.

At least they were out with their children as opposed to sitting at home drinking lager.

I sympathise as if they had been around my DS (who loves to repeat things) then I would have had a cats bum mouth too.

WHAT, Cain and Kylie arnt "frightfully common", there not names i would personally call my dc, but there not that bad! However, if i ever have a dd, i like the name Britney, which some people probebly would class as chavvy!

I've seen the op posting in this unpleasant way before. She is very pleased with herself and her parenting

Ipanemagirl, it shouldn't make a difference which area you live in. Manners and respect for others ought to be a universal thing, shouldn't they?

Why shouldn't I be pleased with my parenting, Northernlurker? My LO is doing OK. He isn't perfect but he's doing OK. I do the best I can and I teach him to respect others and use manners, which he does.

Why shouldn't I be pleased with this? I'm not going to berate myself as some self-flagellation for something that's not there. fair enough, I muck up in lots of things but I happen to think I'm an OK mum.

how do you post a link to anthother thread on here btw

its this link

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/943582-to-think-it-is-mighty-strange-for -a-grown-woman

Pigletmania you need to go onto the thread you want to link to. You need to highlight the url in your searchbar then you need to left-click and click 'copy'.

Then go back into the thread where you want to post the link. Type in then left click and hit 'paste' then type .

HTH.

Dear ElleBing

I'm guessing you have led a very sheltered life. I find that travel, places like India or Africa tend to broaden ones mind.

Regards

baluchi

right will try here it is

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/943582-to-think-it-is-mighty-strange-for-a-grown-woman