I think everyone can enjoy the parks but I believe they were created and designed for children. If we can just take a step back and a deep breath everyone would have a more relaxing vacation.
No....you take a deep breath, plan your trip around your kids and let the rest of us plan our trips the way WE enjoy. I like kids. Some of my favorite people are children....but the day that I decide that they shoudl get preference simply because of their age is the day you can accuse me of drinking koolaid....which incidentally I would be offended by. That reference is really not a nice one. That refers to a horrific tragedy and for the many of us who were old enough to follow it in the news, well it is offensive.
Families come in all shapes, sizes, and design, with age groups all over the map. While I am nice to children, and I generally will shoo little ones in font for a better view, I no more believe they are more entitled to special things than I think I am. If your childen's view, experience etc it important to you, plan for it, pay for it or hope for the best. Just do not expect the rest of us to move aside because you brought kids.
Truthfully, if a front row seat for my child is important to me I need to show up early enough to claim the spot.
Exactly. I am inclined to make room, but it never faills....I get "that" parent who is not satisfied to wait for an invitation. In December we were armed with a group of families to see Illuminations. A little before the start a parent who thought his childen should have a better view, but who had not thought that important enough to plan fo it was heard conspiring with his group....how to push up through all of us who had been camped out for quite some time. Sorry fella.....
I feel that children 10 and under should be treated with Extra Pixie Dust while in the World. After they hit the teens they can pretty much fend for themselves. If they want a parade spot or a character meal they can make it happen. DO I think that young children should have extra attention over an adult at Disney Yes I do. Do I think that Disney is only for kids NO I don't.
My DGD is 14 and I think that since she hangs our Moon, raises our Sun and puts the Stars in our eyes, SHE should get special Pixie Dust. LOL! I actually do not. SHe gets what she gets from us. Anything else is extra and since she did not earn it and we did not pay for it it is not hers just because we find her special. I think that the attitude that any individual is more entitled to magic based on age is ludicrous and petty self absorbed.
Yes I believe that children should be the FOCAL POINT. I have already corrected my original post. I believe Disney to be for families any shape and size. Any mother will sacrifice for her children. Maybe that is where my thought process is coming from. Willing to sacrifice for the younger kids. Yes an 8 yo little girl dressed up in a Princess costume should be flooded with pixie dust. A 40 yo woman in a tutu not so much.
Again a 40 yo woman in a tutu in WDW is GREAT just don't EXPECT to be treated like a princess. I would think the majority of adults not drinking the WDW koolaid would realize that is not entitlement
We ALL deserve to be treated like the Princesses and Princes that we are. If you want to sacrifice go for it, just remember that we all pay the same price to get in, we all save for our special vacation, and we all love a little special Pixie Dust. No one is anyone else's FOCAL point, no should we expect that others feel that our kids deserve to take from someone else's experience.
Thank you for your support..even though I changed the title my feelings are the same. Little ones should be a priority at Disney. I think it's more for them than for me. I never said adults should not be at Disney or able to enjoy the park.I have always felt this way about the issue I will say again my children are not rude they do not cut in the line and they do not expect something from everyone. They have been taught to be polite and respect others. My hubby was taught to hold a door for a female and would give up his seat for someone and did a couple of times on a crowded bus.I guess what I have learned from this thread is the same issue that's wrong with a lot of theworld these days. It's all about me.
Oh it was clear that the title change did not change your attitude. I have had the pleasure of being in spaces occupied by special little snowflakes whose wants are so much more important than the wants of the people surrounding them. I find it nauseating.
One of my favorite trips was a adults only trip. I was meeting a group of king time Dis friends, and since my DH was recovering from blood clots that had almost taken his life. He wanted me to go because "no one needs to get away as much as you!" And so I would have a companion he paid for my neighbor to join me. She had been to WDW twice, and both occasion were not fun and had never included her wants. Anyway, my friends and I had a blast taking her around the World, but the MK was the best! Dinner in CRT with plenty of Princess time ( I guess we stole that from some kid) and then a great spot for Wishes. Well, my othe fiend and I had already seen WIshes many times, but Kim had not ever seen it. We were in the process of shifting between the two of us to give her the best view, when she asked what we were doing. People around us heard us telling her that we were trying to fix her view (she did nto knwo about Tink) and like Magic, they all sort of moved so she had an unobstructed view. This was the first time my hearing impaired friend ever heard the music! But I guess that she did not meet the age requirement, so she should have moved for kids. Who incidentally were just as pulled into her enthusiasm as the est of the group was all week. It was contagious!
