"Adult Only" things you'd pay a premium for. ** CHILDFREE SECTION**

[SoRainbowRhythms]

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Whether it exists or not, what do you / would you pay more for?

DH and I always pay through the nose to stay in a nice adults only resort when we go away. We won't even entertain staying somewhere with just an adults only section no matter how nice.

I went to London Zoo for Zoo Lates this year and it was adults only with drinks and nice food - worth every penny.

Wishful thinking - I would give my right arm for childfree flights or a truly adults only restaurant.

thread title amended by MNHQ at the OP's request

This thread is super weird... it's a parenting website. It's one thing picking an adults only holiday but proposing to ban kids from shopping places and trains is a bit strange.

I'm a mum and other kids don't annoy me. It's generally my own kids that drive me crazy every so often.

Can we ban arsehole adults? And disgusting dangerous dogs?

We can't even ban men from women's only spaces so I doubt that the world would allow child free spaces in malls, planes etc.

This thread is super weird... it's a parenting website.

And this is the CHILDFREE board, so a perfectly sensible place to post the thread

I do actually agree about banning arsehole adults and dangerous dogs though.

@LilyMumsnet this is what we’re talking about. People wandering in to tell us our threads are “weird”.

I don't get what is so hard to understand. This is the childfree section of mumsnet. People talk about the experiences of being child free. Mumsnet is a big place, surely these women can have a little bit of space for themselves.

For the record, I have kids and still there are times when I would absolutely pay a premium to have an experience where there are no children. Train/air travel definitely. Supermarket shopping also. And I can well understand why other people would want space from my kids too. Especially those who have chosen to be or have been forced to be child free.

A few people who post here have reading comprehension issues.

There are quite a few parents I know as friends who love to have time away from their kids and other children and have talked about child free areas generally in conversation too.

The reason why we love the local Everyman cinema is you rarely see children in there at night. The local Picturehouse is another matter.

Probably no one wants space from your kids, it's the kids of the parents who can't self-police their own boundaries, behaviour and social rules who aren't passing it onto their children either and their children are then seen as the naughty children who are misbehaving when actually it's the parents fault. You've come into the childfree section as a parent, discussed the thread topic under discussion, been polite and added to the discussion without being insulting or nasty, so your children are likely well behaved because if you can 'parent' yourself, you're likely doing it for your children! and if they do behave 'badly' you're likely to do something about it. It's really not the children, how would a 4 year old know not to race a scooter around Tesco? How does a 6 year old know a theatre show isn't the place to scream endlessly and throw stuff? How does a 3 year old know not to kick the back of a place seat? Only by the parents telling them and they don't, that's the annoying part. A roughly 8 year old girl cartwheeled across the aisle in a supermarket right in front of me the other day the mum said 'X don't do that you're in people way and you might hurt them' then she smiled at me and said sorry I smiled back and said it's no problem. They aren't the children people mean when they say they'd like some childfree spaces, it's the child who would cartwheel endlessly while the parent did nothing and end up taking out an eldery\disabled person in the biscuit aisle!

Fucking insulting comparing child free spacez with banning races and ethnicities

Exactly @Normalsizedsalad it's insanity! Nobody would ever propose such a thing. Which is why this thread is nasty. Everyone should be welcome everywhere... within reason. I'm not suggesting we allow kids into nightclubs.

id have spaces that are quiet spaces eg on planes, trains and so on. If you and/or your kid isn’t able to be quiet, you wouldn’t pay extra to use them regardless, but there would at least be an option for people to avoid noise. I don’t have kids, I don’t mind them if they aren’t screeching 🤣 so I suppose premium quiet rather than child free would ruffle less feathers and give folk an extra option.

have you just come into the child free section of mumsnet and compared a discussion about wanting spaces away from children to be the same as racism?? Fuck me

Spot on.

🙄 I am done with this.

Me too. We literally can't do anything right.

But everyone shouldn't be welcome everywhere. If I zoomed around a supermarket on a scooter getting in everyone's way, knocking things over and screaming I would be asked to leave. That's the right thing. Why can an 8 year old do it? Their parents should be parenting them. Really in this discussion the well behaved or well parented children aren't being discussed because people don't notice them and they don't bother people.

Me too. I was delighted this board was set up but every thread the same - two/three pages of CF people discussing whatever and the comments start about us being wrong. Meanies, haters, why are we even here....

I've said on the site issues board I'd wholeheartedly support this coming out of active.

You don't have to comment. I have been on his site for years in various incarnations and have never once commented on a parenting related thread (which is easy to do given the vastness of MN) , even if it had annoyed me.

Your opinion doesn't overrule ours.

When I was a child my mother wouldn't let me take a bike in a shop, she wouldn't let me scream on a train, she wouldn't let me kick people seats. No one is bashing children, they just want a break from the children who lack parenting and that includes the parents who have commented here saying they want a break from them too.

It’s not child bashing. It’s asking which child free spaces people would like.

If there wasn’t a demand for these places then certain places wouldn’t provide this.

And, this is the child free section of MN. Feel free to write to MN to get it closed down if you wish.

Most children I know are a lot better behaved than most people on this thread

Really? you know about the RL behaviour of every poster on this thread? the ones posting on a board specifically set up for them? impressive.

I'll tell you one thing - I'm well-behaved enough not to plop onto a board not meant for me and start criticising the posters because they have opinions I don't like.