Have your children embarrassed you at Disney/Orlando?

[Pigletlover]

That's probably a really stupid question but I would love to hear some of your horror stories!

My husband and I don't have children so our park touring is pretty stress-free and easy. I love seeing the excitement, joy and wonder on the faces of children, but what about the "other side" of vacationing with them?


Here's a list to jog your memory:

Vomiting, peeing or pooping in places that are definitely NOT the toilet

Temper tantrums for all to see

Incessant whiiiiiiiining or crying

Refusal to walk any more, or eat, or pee, or smile for the camera etc

Loud screaming in excitement (or fear!)

Making a mess or damaging things in restaurants, stores, or the hotel

Interacting badly with other children they meet

Being rude to cast members, characters, or other guests

Violence toward you or others

Continual arguing or fighting with siblings

Making inappropriate remarks in front of physically or mentally disabled guests, dwarves, or obese people

Refusing to get on rides after you have waited an eternity in line


Or if you don't have any stories of your own, what have you witnessed from OTHER people's children?

 

[Desnik]

DS had a melt down at 50's PTC. He was only 20 months old and really not use to having to sit still in a restaurant. Well during our lunch he just started throwing everything off the table!!! We were able to catch most of it but I'm sad to say the sugar/sweet n low holder didn't make it. He threw it across the restaurant and it shattered all over the floor. I was so embarassed!! Our server was great and joked about what an arm he had for a little bitty thing!! I left DH and DD there to finish eating and took hime outside for a walk. He fell asleep within 20 min.!!

 

[SusanWasHere]

lol, are you ready for flames??? lol, i looove your thread! which is why a friend of mine had another thread last week titled "how about a no kids weekend". i have to say, i have probably seen all of the above at wdw and elsewhere of course! i know parents want their little ones to feel the magic, but it just doesn't happen sometimes! but you hit the nail on the head! lolol. i'm cracking up at your list - were you a former CM or something????

PS word of advice for the moms and dads that let their kids use game boys, cell phone games, other hand held games in public. PUT THEM ON MUTE OR DON'T HAVE THEM PLAY THEM AT ALL!! went to brunch with family today and an obnoxious family was 2 tables down. the kids had hand held games, volume up, played them for 45 minutes straight!! it was sooo rude, and they had no care in the world. it was the same annoying music over and over. the poor woman next to us had to be in her 80s. the games were bothering her hearing aids. she turned them off and could still feel the vibration. she was shaking. i said something to the adults about maybe finding the mute button and they ignored me. we told the manager on the way out and they said the people would not leave. they gave them the check almost an hour earlier. i was like "JUST MAKE THEM TURN IT OFF". sooo rude!

 

[AllyCatTapia]

Vomiting, peeing or pooping in places that are definitely NOT the toilet Loud screaming in excitement (or fear!) QUOTE]




well --OT---but you jogged my memory of several funny instanes of our vacation LAST year- MEXICO!! Of course, the youngest kid caught the bug and ended up

1)making a green puddle of (Something) on the floor in the airport
2)filling TWO PLATES with throw up at Bob Evans when we got back to the States

sorry, gross, but this is part of why this years vacation is DISNEYWORLD!

 

[vicb]

Nothing too awful but just a few small things:

DS then age 3 1/2 throwing his coin in the wishing well and saying loudly "I wish I was home, not here". I could have cried!

DD then age 6 being so tired at Ohana's that she accidently spilled her drink everywhere then couldn't recover. We never should have tried to do TS that night!


Not at WDW but at a lumberjack show in Maine, my DS then 8 being selected to go up on stage to participate in a contest. For some unknown reason he decided to act like a fool. He pretended to not know what state he was from, made strange noises in the microphone etc... We were sooooo embarrased, he was too after the fact.

 

[Pigletlover]

lol, are you ready for flames??? lol, i looove your thread! which is why a friend of mine had another thread last week titled "how about a no kids weekend". i have to say, i have probably seen all of the above at wdw and elsewhere of course! i know parents want their little ones to feel the magic, but it just doesn't happen sometimes! but you hit the nail on the head! lolol. i'm cracking up at your list - were you a former CM or something????

No, I've never been a cast member but I have a lot of respect for them. I imagine that it would be a rewarding job but it must be frustrating and stressful sometimes. To remain so calm, patient, polite, and accommodating amongst all the chaos would definitely be a challenge!

 

[mef78]

Ha! I've not had kids embarrass me (don't have any yet!), but I do remember a funny story when my brother and I embarrassed my parents at WDW! We were probably about 5 (me) and 7 (bro) and were were warring as usual--we never got along when we were kids! So my mom told us to go stand by a column (we were in Epcot) and she and my dad would come back to get us when they were finished riding rides! They actually left us (and hid around the corner where they could see us but we couldn't see them). We just stood there--two little kids freaked out that their parents left them and were riding rides while they stood by a pole--until my parents came back about ten minutes later. I'm sure we acted up again, but they got at least ten minutes of peace!

 

[Teresa Pitman]

During our trip last November, my dd and I were shopping at DTD with another family. The wife and I were looking in the Christmas store and her three children and my dd were outside with her husband. Her ds (9) finished his snack and came into the store with us and started looking at things on the shelves - we were a little further away from the entrance and not really paying much attention to him. Suddenly we heard LOUD crashing and smashing noises and looked up to see her son holding a large snowglobe in his hand with three or four more snowglobes smashed on the floor all around him!!

I have to tell you that my first impulse was to pretend we didn't know who he was, but he looked so upset and forlorn that we couldn't do it. We rushed over. The CM's were wonderful and much more concerned that he wasn't cut or hurt by all the broken glass than about the damage. They helped him get all the glass off him and reassured him, then quickly cleaned up the mess.

But it was embarrassing to have everyone in the store looking at us. And the poor little guy wouldn't even go in a store for the entire reast of the trip!

Teresa

 

[doombuggy3]

Nothing too awful but just a few small things:

DS then age 3 1/2 throwing his coin in the wishing well and saying loudly "I wish I was home, not here". I could have cried!

HA HA HA. Sorry to be laughing at your misery, but I can just picture a kid having a melt down and saying this. I understand what it's like to be in the prescence of a kid having a melt down...My little sis had TONS we went to Disney when we were younger.

 

[Tinky]

Just the one time... Our now 6 year old DD was 5 at the time. We were sitting at MCO waiting for our flight and there was a family with 2 smaller children who were... let's say not happy... so mom and dad weren't happy.... the kids in this family started fighting... the parents started fighting.. i had to keep reminding my two (DS6 and DD5) to mind their business and stop staring at them.. ANYHOO... we get in line to board and this family just happens to be on flight and standing right behind us... DD (standing right beside DH & I) looks up at the mom and just says as serious as can be.... "You need to call the SuperNanny" MORTIFIED.... DH and I were just like stones for a second... I finally look back at the lady, gasp out an apology while her mouth is still hanging open, and DH grabs DD and makes a run down the jet way... And all the time DS is just laughing his little silly head off.

I corrected DD on the flight and we discussed that we shouldn't say things like that but she really couldn't understand what she had done wrong, said she was "just tryin to be helpful"

I felt so sorry for this mom because the worse her kids were behaving the madder the dad was getting, which was frustrating her, which was frustrating her kids... it was really kind of sad. We were in the front of the plane and they were in the rear... I really hope her day got better...

 

[doombuggy3]

I know she's not my kid, but my sister and I are so far apart in age that sometimes I feel like here second mother.

When she was about 2 or so we went on a family trip to WDW. We originally supposed to stay in DTD, but my parents upgraded at the last second to the Poly. My sister was at the age where she liked to "run in the buff." When I left to go get ice that she followed me out of the room (I didn't know she did either because I stuck a jam in the door), but ran the other way in the buff. My parents and I frantically hurried after her and finally caught her near a couple down the hall who proceeded to give my parents dirty looks. I don't know if there were more disgusted because she slipped away and we were chasing her or because she wore no clothes.

Also, on the same trip we were coming back from swimming and my sister (who was still potty training) at the time, failed to tell us she had to go and proceeded to urinate in the elevator. The family who was in the elevator with us, laughed nervously, but looked absolutely disgusted.

 

[kimmikayb]

Yep just two weeks ago, in the Hall of Presidents....kids were almost asleep so we thought it would be a great time to see one of our favorite attractions. Carry our sleeping darlings inside, settle down and as soon as the lights go off it's like a freakin alarm clock to those little turds. They talked, they fought, they screamed. We were boxed in on all sides, felt leaving would be a bigger destraction until our DS2 took the water bottle and tossed it. Needless to say, we left. Never did get to go back. I was very embarrassed.

 

[Twinprincesses]

My little brother was about 4 and we were headed to the figment ride when all of the sudden he pulls down his pants and starts peeing. It was night so not alot of people saw him but the few that did thought it was pretty funny.

 

[joshsmom]

COMPLETE MELTDOWN AT TOT!!! This was the first time grandma and I had gotten the nerve to even TRY TOT. Knowing DS would probably NOT do it, Grandma and I switch off--I went first. LOVED it so much and sent grandma on it. While DS(then 7) and I were waiting for grandma, he started SCREAMING and saying he was NOT going on the ride. I knew that he would be scared and didn't plan on taking him on it. WHY he got the idea that I was going to FORCE him on it is beyond me. People getting off the ride STARED at us, shaking their heads that I would try to make that child get on the ride. He just completely lost it.

Believe it or not, the little snot DID want to go on it and once he did, he wanted to do it again and again and again!!! Wish I could have told each and every person that not only did I not force him on the ride, but the snipe LOVED it once he went on by his own accord!!! ARRRRRGGGGGGG!!!

 

[a*lil*bit*goofy]

ok a) i am so glad to read that my 2 year old daughter isn't hte only one who likes to throw things in her fits

b) its reminding me that my kids are human, and that i am human!

c) its showing me that when my kids freak out when we go in December, they won't be the only ones! LOL I am sure when we do our trip i will have things to add. sigh.

LOL!

 

[kimmikayb]

ok a) i am so glad to read that my 2 year old daughter isn't hte only one who likes to throw things in her fits

b) its reminding me that my kids are human, and that i am human!

c) its showing me that when my kids freak out when we go in December, they won't be the only ones! LOL I am sure when we do our trip i will have things to add. sigh.

LOL!

Oh thank goodness I am not alone!!

I tried to remember that we aren't the only ones but the looks and glares we get, oh boy. We do try to be very considerate of others around us and take the kids away as soon as possible. I do get very frustrated with the things being thrown.

 

[minkydog]

Nothing too awful but just a few small things:

Not at WDW but at a lumberjack show in Maine, my DS then 8 being selected to go up on stage to participate in a contest. For some unknown reason he decided to act like a fool. He pretended to not know what state he was from, made strange noises in the microphone etc... We were sooooo embarrased, he was too after the fact.

This is such an 8yo thing to do. My oldest child would do stuff like this. Of course, now he is a theater major and shoots films in his spare time Just warning ya...

 

[Joann]

Can't remember anything about my kids ... except them fighting with each other all the time hehe....anyway when I see kids doing the * kid thing* as we all know kids do these things it's not just your's they all have bad days..... I always give a little chuckle to myself and feel for the parents as I know how it is and how embaressing it can be, so for everyone out there that shakes thier head in disgust, remember you one day will have it happen to you and then feel pity on others hehe. I just always thank god it isn't only me LOL

 

[melomouse]

That's probably a really stupid question but I would love to hear some of your horror stories!

My husband and I don't have children so our park touring is pretty stress-free and easy. I love seeing the excitement, joy and wonder on the faces of children, but what about the "other side" of vacationing with them?


Here's a list to jog your memory:

Vomiting, peeing or pooping in places that are definitely NOT the toilet

Temper tantrums for all to see

Incessant whiiiiiiiining or crying

Refusal to walk any more, or eat, or pee, or smile for the camera etc

Loud screaming in excitement (or fear!)

Making a mess or damaging things in restaurants, stores, or the hotel

Interacting badly with other children they meet

Being rude to cast members, characters, or other guests

Violence toward you or others

Continual arguing or fighting with siblings

Making inappropriate remarks in front of physically or mentally disabled guests, dwarves, or obese people

Refusing to get on rides after you have waited an eternity in line


Or if you don't have any stories of your own, what have you witnessed from OTHER people's children?

Pigletlover - I must let you know that my Asperger's DS(now 14) has done all of the above at any and all of our 6 trips, with the exception of peeing, pooping or vomiting, destroying property or refusing to get on a ride - the nature of his disability is such that he DOES make inappropriate remarks, gets loud and has meltdowns at times. Last trip, he asked a CM with a feminine voice why he spoke in "falsetto" and if he was a "transvestite".

I have long ceased to be embarassed, hoping one day for compassion, education and acceptance in the world at large as we always get at WDW from CM's everywhere.

Which is why I am able to overlook or ignore so much "normal" kid behavior in the parks. I simply try to avoid as many triggers for DS as I can and keep in mind that there are places, even in WDW, that I wouldn't risk it (the higher-end TS restaurants come to mind - tho he handles himself on cruises and at the more elegant restaurants at home).

I hope that the fact of certain developmental disabilities and their resulting behaviors comes into visitors' minds the next time they see a "horror story" in the making.

 

[DMRick]

YOu won't see this grandma throwing any dirty looks, but if you get close enough, you'll hear me saying "I'm so glad they are yours, and not mine (as in the past), and I get to go home to my hotel room without them". I actually have a little tune I sing this to. I also have been there in your spot, so I've earned the right to say it LOL!

Disney is a hard place for kids sometimes..and I think those of us without kids with us understand. I do have to say though, I'd rather just hear the kids cry, than to hear the parents either continue to try and shush them (sometimes making more noise), or the continuous countdown. "I'm counting now..1, 2, 3, 4, 5..do you hear me..one more countdown and you get timeout 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,..listen, I mean it this time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..ok, the next time, we are leaving the park 1, 2, 3, 4, 5" I just want to say, oh for heaven's sake, just give them to me and we'll watch them while you go on rides. I never say it, cause I know they won't pass them over, ...but I swear..if they count one more time, I"m going to give them (the parents) time out