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.
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“the country I left, moms would make themselves hoarse yelling at children to stand here and not there”
Ukrainians in the hotel I was just in weren’t doing that (neither were the other nationalities with only occasional exceptions)…. there was a _lot_ of noise but the animators did a good job of keeping people occupied and or distracted by organizing and taking part in games in the water.
There was a lot of racket but even I’m not enough of a curmudgeon to get upset at kids making noise in the pool, though I did prefer the second pool bar (by the much quieter) ‘relax pool’.
The restaurant probably had more… corrections by parents of kids (but mostly reasonable and not overly punitive or loud).
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