New Pet PEEVE and EMH

[GOOFYFREEK]

Ok I will probaly get blasted for this. But after 2 trips in the past week, it has driven me nuts.

My new Pet Peeve is when parents are forcing there kids to stay awake for the EMH. We where in MK last night till 12am and there was so many kids screaming and balling and fussing, everyone know they should be sleeping. But yet the parents are yelling at them to stop there crying.

TAKE THE KIDS TO BED, SO EVERYONE CAN ENJOY IT.

 

[andrabell]

My child never cries. He's made of plastic.

 

[Ilovestitch]

We were surprised at all the kids out late at night on our trip!

A few times we were getting on the bus from Pleasure Island to go back to our hotel and people were just getting off the bus to go to Pleasure Island w/toddlers- this was at 1 am !!

 

[kycat]

My daughter slept for 3 hours in the afternoon back in the hotel on the day we went. I had to beg her to leave at 11:55 pm. And she woke me up on the bus when we got to our resort.

 

[Aimeedyan]

We, too, shared MK with lots of young children/preschoolers until midnight one night. However, I didn't see any parents forcing their kids to stay awake, we just saw lots of sleeping children being pushed in strollers or carried. Esp on the boat back =) But no parents making comments to make them stay awake.

I was surprised at how many preschoolers were wide awake! LOL! They seemed to be enjoying the park as much as we were

 

[Alice's Mom]

My daughter and I took advantage of the MK EMH and stayed until almost midnight, but that same day we slept in and she had a nap too, if at any point she was too tired to go on then we would go, but I have to say I did see a lot of cranky kids and cranky parents at all times of the day not just during evening EMH.

The only day my kid cried was the day we left and those were crocodile tears.

 

[llij]

No flaming from me! My kids who are almost 7 and 9 could never stay up for an evening EMH! They love their sleep and are usually in bed around 8:00 (even the 9 yo). When we are at Disney, they can usually hang until a little after 9:00 p.m. and then we are done. Heck, I'm ready for bed at 9:00 !

This summer we will be the ones who get to the parks when they open, but we won't be staying out too late either.

 

[savs]

My boys are ds7, ds5 & ds9 months and we love to sleep in, take a long nap in the afternoon and then stay at the parks until closing. Also what helped out alot is that our bodies are still used to our time zone (Central), so that is why we have a hard time getting up in the morning and can stay up pretty late at night.

Also we tend to go 10 or 11 days when we go so we don't feel like we have to be up so early and are not missing much if we nap during the day.

If for some reason my boys were tired and wanted to back early and go to bed, we wouldn't have a problem doing that either. It is there vacation and we let them do it on their schedule.

 

[ksjayhawkfan]

We will be at the parks late in June with a 6 yr old and a 8 yr old. We will be napping in the afternoon so we can stay up late. Not that it will matter, my kids are night owls. More than likely it will be my DH that is crying and cranky because he is tired lol

 

[GOOFYFREEK]

Its not the kids being in the park is the problem. Heck I am all for it. When they are happy and boucing around and really enjoying themselves. Its the ones that you can tell have been in the park all day and now are still there all night and the kids are screaming there heads off. Now those are the ones that quickly get to me, and gets me even more when the parents are yelling "YOU WANTED TO STAY" WELL DUH!!! what kid wants to leave?? Heck I'm not a kid and I dont want to leave, but I know my limit.

 

[scrapbookersdis]

It's so easy for people with children to get annoyed at people without children (cutting off the stroller in a crowded walkway, carelessly holding a lighted cigarette at the level of a little face in the stroller {and ignoring the park's smoking policy in the process}, etc.) just as people without children get annoyed at people who have them ("traffic" delays caused by a stroller thoughtlessly stopped in the middle of a crowded walkway, noisy or unrestrained little ones, etc.).

Accepting "different strokes for different folks" can be a hard philosophy to put into practice (even though it's at the root of most world religions!). It's so much easier to judge than to empathize. Our impatient, territorial caveman ancestors aren't so deeply buried under our veneers. That's one thing we've all seen in the parks!

Sharla

 

[melkimmom]

I did not read the memo that said that all children should be sleeping by 9pm, nor the other one that mentioned that if you have young children you can't enjoy EMH.

If you look hard you will find kids crying and fussing all day long. Why don't you send a letter to Disney and ask that the kids be banned from the parks completely so you and the others like you can enjoy the parks.

Different people including their kids have different schedules. Does that make them bad parents? I don't think that forcing the kids to stay awake is a good thing, but I have never seen that myself. I guess it most be hard for some groups to let a toddler dictate at what time they retire when the rest of the group is just getting started.

My kids are 9 and 5 and they love enjoying Disney to much to cry and fuss :thewave: so we will be there starting on Monday. I really don't want to drive you nuts, so I hope that your vacation is done by then. Mine will have just begun so I will be out and about with my little ones in hand. I wish I could tell you that we will be in bed by 9 but I don't like to lie. And, until we receive that letter or memo from Disney we will enjoy the parks until they kick us out if we want to.

 

[Buttercup26]

I don't the original OP was complaining about children crying or being up late, the complaint was towards the parents who 'force' their kids to keep going when they are tired and overstimulated.

 

[GOOFYFREEK]

I don't the original OP was complaining about children crying or being up late, the complaint was towards the parents who 'force' their kids to keep going when they are tired and overstimulated.

BINGO!!! I love when people actually read the entire story.

 

[melkimmom]

I don't the original OP was complaining about children crying or being up late, the complaint was towards the parents who 'force' their kids to keep going when they are tired and overstimulated.

Even so.... Who are you to tell that parent what to do? I am sure you don't like someone next to you to tell you something like " I think that you smoke to much, get out of the parks so we can breath easier." While you are in a smoking area. (This is just an example)

 

[GOOFYFREEK]

Its not the kids being in the park is the problem. Heck I am all for it. When they are happy and boucing around and really enjoying themselves. Its the ones that you can tell have been in the park all day and now are still there all night and the kids are screaming there heads off. Now those are the ones that quickly get to me, and gets me even more when the parents are yelling "YOU WANTED TO STAY" WELL DUH!!! what kid wants to leave?? Heck I'm not a kid and I dont want to leave, but I know my limit.

Guess you didn't read this one?

 

[C.Ann]

Wherever there are children, there is going to be screaming and crying - morning, noon and night.. The only way to avoid it is to go where there are no children..

As long as it's not someone in MY group screaming and crying, it doesn't interfere with my enjoyment of the parks at all..

 

[melkimmom]

Guess you didn't read this one?

Yes, I did.

I am glad you like kids that is great.

When I posted a reply I was not just thinking of you but also of the others that also replied and were complaining of how late the kids were out with there parents and that they go to bed early and so on. That is why I didn't quote you.

Kids will be kids.... There are more than a million reason why kids cry and complain. It seems hard to believe that all these kids where begging to their parent aloud to take them to bed and that the parents aloud so you could hear told them "NO, we are staying here because of you".

I understand your fustration, but my point is that I think it would be wrong for you or anybody to assume that you know what is going on with somebody elses child and to decide that the parent should leave because of it. It would be very sad to receive a dirty look from someone you don't know because your child is crying in Disney of all places.

 

[kaabost]

OK, so the moral of the story is that Disney is for everyone, including kids. Kids sometimes scream and fuss because they are kids.....even the most well adjusted happy kids in the world have meltdowns in public places because they are kids. While screaming kids can be annoying to outsiders, it's really not that bad. Disney is a large place where people are moving around alot. Its pretty rare that anyone has to listen to screaming children for long periods of time. I would assume that this doesn't bother anyone too badly. Obviously, a passerby probably isn't going to be around long enough to make a valid assumption as to why the kid is upset. However, all of us have witnessed parents on numerous occasions yelling at their kids saying something along the lines of "Stop crying, we paid a lot of money to come here and we're not going waste our time." (or something like that) I think this is what the OP was posting about. Obviously tired, cranky children who happen to be out late with parents who seem inconsiderate to their own childrens need to rest/sleep. I don't think the time of day is really an issue because so many people go back to their rooms for a good nap each day.

 

[Schmeck]

My new Pet Peeve is when parents are forcing there kids to stay away for the EMH. We where in MK last night till 12am and there was so many kids screaming and balling and fussing, everyone know they should be sleeping. But yet the parents are yelling at them to stop there crying.

TAKE THE KIDS TO BED, SO EVERYONE CAN ENJOY IT.

Forcing them to stay away? Away from what? That doesn't make sense to me. Also, should all the kids be taken to bed, or just the crying ones? What if only one of the kids is crying?

I also love the part about "yelling at them to stop there crying" Maybe they should here cry instead. Or did you mean "their crying"?