The lack of consequences is easy to say, but impossible to really do anything about as a parent!
The days of knocking heads together are gone, (and rightly so), but:
When at home, I can take a phone away as a consequence of bad behaviour. At home, I can let them scream the house down and frankly I don't care, as I can let them run out of steam before giving their phone back a week later.......or apply Screentime controls if their phone is useful for safety reasons.
However, to my cost I found that this doesn't work on a campsite at all because they shout down an entire campsite and that is beyond embarrassing!....... I am mortified by the looks we all got from others as it has been constant!
It seems to me that the clever little bugger's have managed to weaponise camping in the hope that this will lead to going home and me booking a cruise next year for our family of 5! (I am sure that huge family rows on a ship will be much better!)
It seems that the more choices that parents provide for teenagers, the more hassle is created! ...... Spoilt little buggers!
I suppose that these days it is difficult when children see their friends jetting off to exotic places, or going on a cruise, as this has become the nom, but when I was a kid, me and my brother were simply pleased not to be at school let alone go anywhere. We didn't go abroad for anything other than school trips and when we finished university, we were kicked out and my parents toured the world!...... probably on the money they saved from not suffering holidays with me and my brother!
I could bang in about how us adults have become too sympathetic towards kids and that "mental health" is the cause of many issues, but this thread has helped me vent and for that I would like to thank the Forum!
