Clarissa's Blog

I know I said it a trillion times already but I’ll never get over how well-behaved, polite, and sweet American children are. And how well American parents treat their children. You only know it if you grew up somewhere else, otherwise it feels natural and I don’t notice.

Three large families appeared at the resort in the past couple of days. One is definitely from the South, with accents that I’d place in South Carolina. Each family has a bunch of kids, plus there are grandparents and a couple of college-age youngsters. And everybody is calm. Nobody is screaming at the children or editing their behavior at all. I don’t know whether it changed but, in the country I left, moms would make themselves hoarse yelling at children to stand here and not there, sit, no, stand, no, come here, no, go away.

And the children have the loveliest manners. Older kids are very sweet with the little ones. Such a great environment.