I am writing a plea almost. My family and friends spent a lovely weekend on a site last wee. Bewteen us we had 7 children. We are all quiet respectful and polite people and strive to bring our children up the same way.
When playing by the caravans on a large piece of open field we either played with them or watched whilst having a coffee etc.
Each night they stopped playing by 7.30 pm to keep noise down. They played football with a plastic ball that could not damage anything and they made sure not to hit it anywhere near another van also. They also played frisby with a sponge frisby.
Almost every other van owner within the vicinity regularly looked at the children harshly anf two of them even approached the children, oldets being 9, telling them to behave when they were simply having fun but not being noisy or unreasonable. I noted that no adult approached any of us parents !
Even the warden mentioned twice to the kids to watch the ball, just in passing, although he did so with a smile at least.
One lady watched from her van for an hour as they played and when the ball went near her van ( as I said it was so light it could not harm it , We left the heavy ball stored away )she barked at them to go away.
It seems to me to be the most unwelcoming feature of having a caravan. This is my first year. The majority of adults seem consumed with the need to mark out their territory, erect big screens to block the world out and then sit in their pristine van snearing at the world.
I know some children and parents do not behave well ( at least I say that from what I have read here, I am yet to see it for myself ). I know children need to respect adults and that equipment is expensive but can we not all try a bit harder when it comes to making families feel welcome.
There are some who will argue against what I am saying although I do bnot know how they can do so. If some adults just do not want children near them can they not go to adult only sites. I understand there are some.
I will keep teaching my children to be respectful but as they grow older it may be more difficult for them to follow if all they see are adults failing to respect them.
Please help and try and change this growing trend. Let's make caravaning family friendly again. Let's make sure it retians or regains those traditional family values that attracted so many people to it in the first place.
Please help
When playing by the caravans on a large piece of open field we either played with them or watched whilst having a coffee etc.
Each night they stopped playing by 7.30 pm to keep noise down. They played football with a plastic ball that could not damage anything and they made sure not to hit it anywhere near another van also. They also played frisby with a sponge frisby.
Almost every other van owner within the vicinity regularly looked at the children harshly anf two of them even approached the children, oldets being 9, telling them to behave when they were simply having fun but not being noisy or unreasonable. I noted that no adult approached any of us parents !
Even the warden mentioned twice to the kids to watch the ball, just in passing, although he did so with a smile at least.
One lady watched from her van for an hour as they played and when the ball went near her van ( as I said it was so light it could not harm it , We left the heavy ball stored away )she barked at them to go away.
It seems to me to be the most unwelcoming feature of having a caravan. This is my first year. The majority of adults seem consumed with the need to mark out their territory, erect big screens to block the world out and then sit in their pristine van snearing at the world.
I know some children and parents do not behave well ( at least I say that from what I have read here, I am yet to see it for myself ). I know children need to respect adults and that equipment is expensive but can we not all try a bit harder when it comes to making families feel welcome.
There are some who will argue against what I am saying although I do bnot know how they can do so. If some adults just do not want children near them can they not go to adult only sites. I understand there are some.
I will keep teaching my children to be respectful but as they grow older it may be more difficult for them to follow if all they see are adults failing to respect them.
Please help and try and change this growing trend. Let's make caravaning family friendly again. Let's make sure it retians or regains those traditional family values that attracted so many people to it in the first place.
Please help
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