arielchickenofthesea
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We just got back from Disneyland and enjoyed the Park and the decorations. We are both middle-aged, my hubby and I are both disabled. I use a chair or ECV at the Parks, otherwise I could ionly walk about an hour or so before becoming unable to do aqnything.
We LOVE, absolutely adore Disney Parks, character meals and watching the parades. However we don't like too much the crowds, but we deal with it, as it comes along with being at the Park at the holidays. I think it is some people's attitudes that make me crazy
I have heard this phrase before and I have always just chalked it up to someone not knowing the Parks and that many of us Disney addicts have been coming since we were kifds ourselves and we still love the Parks just as much. Some of the peolle coming have never been there or don't gert what Walt Disney said.
Now, this phrase really irks me when it is directly messing with my fun at the parks.
When we have a character breakfast, which is every trip because we love them, it never fails, some kid will run over to our table and hang on the character, as I try to get a picture of my hubby with his favorite, Pooh! I give the parents a pained look, and nothing. I ask the kid to just wait their turn so I can get my picture. Nothing.
Then comes the phrase I hate with a passion..."Oh, don't mind little Johnny or Mary, you know Disney is for kids and they can't help themselves. They LOVE the characters." Well, so do we lady, and we would like our time with them at OUR table when they are here at OUR table!
This also happens in lines waiting to get a picture with a character. Often parents just get in front of us in line and when I tell them I am in line, they give me an increduloous look and say "Well, really Disney characters are for the kids."
(Usually the character or character handler is good about it and deals with the issue in most of the character meal situations.)
I hear it at the parades when we get a spot very early and then some family comes along late and asks us if they can have our spot or move back and put their kids in front of us or next to us so the little ones can see and since we are, Oh! so much bigger and adults after all we should stand in the back behind the families! We should not take up seats in the front and take them away from kids! Huh? Get here earllier next time!
Remember, "Disney parades are for kids!"
If I hear it one more time, I am going to scream and ask them who pays for the tickets to get into the parks, their kids? I paid for my ticket and that gives me an equal right to enjoy all that the park has to offer, including the parades and characters!
Any suggestions on how to deal with this? I never had children so I have no idea how to respond to those whose kids run the world. I have never been a mom, (to human children anyway, my kids have fur and purr...), so I don't get that connection between the parents and their precious little snowflakes.
Not all parents are like this, in fact it is a minority amount that are twits, but it makes me scream. For all the great parents out there
raising their children to be the next leaders and have grerat manners, and how to live in a world when you are noit always the entiteld one, THANK YOU!
I have openly cooed over some of the cutest children in the Parks. And my best friend tell me I don't like kids, that is why I never had any...? Not true, I just never saw myself as "Mommy". That would have been a different identity and I don't know that I could have handled it. But, I love kids, it is some of the parents I don't like.
See ya at DLR at Christmas!
We are there every year at Christmas. It is a tradition and we have figured a schedule that works for us to spend lots of rest time at the Disneyland Hotel. The Park is just so beautiful at Christmas time and we love it! We spend enough time at the Parks without really getting anxious. It is so, so, so, so......crowded then..But we have it worked out so we don't lose all our marbles! See ya there!
Acots
We LOVE, absolutely adore Disney Parks, character meals and watching the parades. However we don't like too much the crowds, but we deal with it, as it comes along with being at the Park at the holidays. I think it is some people's attitudes that make me crazy
I have heard this phrase before and I have always just chalked it up to someone not knowing the Parks and that many of us Disney addicts have been coming since we were kifds ourselves and we still love the Parks just as much. Some of the peolle coming have never been there or don't gert what Walt Disney said.
Now, this phrase really irks me when it is directly messing with my fun at the parks.
When we have a character breakfast, which is every trip because we love them, it never fails, some kid will run over to our table and hang on the character, as I try to get a picture of my hubby with his favorite, Pooh! I give the parents a pained look, and nothing. I ask the kid to just wait their turn so I can get my picture. Nothing.
Then comes the phrase I hate with a passion..."Oh, don't mind little Johnny or Mary, you know Disney is for kids and they can't help themselves. They LOVE the characters." Well, so do we lady, and we would like our time with them at OUR table when they are here at OUR table!
This also happens in lines waiting to get a picture with a character. Often parents just get in front of us in line and when I tell them I am in line, they give me an increduloous look and say "Well, really Disney characters are for the kids."
(Usually the character or character handler is good about it and deals with the issue in most of the character meal situations.)
I hear it at the parades when we get a spot very early and then some family comes along late and asks us if they can have our spot or move back and put their kids in front of us or next to us so the little ones can see and since we are, Oh! so much bigger and adults after all we should stand in the back behind the families! We should not take up seats in the front and take them away from kids! Huh? Get here earllier next time!
Remember, "Disney parades are for kids!"
If I hear it one more time, I am going to scream and ask them who pays for the tickets to get into the parks, their kids? I paid for my ticket and that gives me an equal right to enjoy all that the park has to offer, including the parades and characters!
Any suggestions on how to deal with this? I never had children so I have no idea how to respond to those whose kids run the world. I have never been a mom, (to human children anyway, my kids have fur and purr...), so I don't get that connection between the parents and their precious little snowflakes.
Not all parents are like this, in fact it is a minority amount that are twits, but it makes me scream. For all the great parents out there
raising their children to be the next leaders and have grerat manners, and how to live in a world when you are noit always the entiteld one, THANK YOU!
I have openly cooed over some of the cutest children in the Parks. And my best friend tell me I don't like kids, that is why I never had any...? Not true, I just never saw myself as "Mommy". That would have been a different identity and I don't know that I could have handled it. But, I love kids, it is some of the parents I don't like.
See ya at DLR at Christmas!
We are there every year at Christmas. It is a tradition and we have figured a schedule that works for us to spend lots of rest time at the Disneyland Hotel. The Park is just so beautiful at Christmas time and we love it! We spend enough time at the Parks without really getting anxious. It is so, so, so, so......crowded then..But we have it worked out so we don't lose all our marbles! See ya there!
Acots
) just know that you're not alone. Parents hate other parents sometimes too LOL 
Enjoy every minute of it, parents!!! You have magic happening!
