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Ok, I will NEVER camp out with fifteen girls AGAIN!!!! EVER!
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 282330" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>or maybe the gibbering wreck trophy for the terminally exhausted and bewildered...</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking, 13 x 15 year-olds, or 15 x 13 year-olds - not a lot of difference, really. Equally terrifying.</p><p></p><p>To continue my earlier post about the suggestion to have much smaller groups for maybe a one night sleepover, totally under your supervision with no other people around - when easy child was 11, we had a sleepover at our house with about 6 other kids. It was a two night sleepover, yes we were crazy, but it worked well. BEcause we live in a holiday resort as well as an isolated place, plus easy child's school was in the city - these kids had a ball, they could walk outside at night and see the stars, they saw wildlife (the furry kind) and husband took them for a bushwalk during the day on the Saturday.</p><p>We had hired movies that easy child picked out, she wanted goofy funny & a bit scary movies, but found she'd bitten off more thna she could chew with "Killer Clowns From Outer Space" - a really BAAAD teen scary movie. The killer clowns were aliens out to wipe out life on earth by wrapping their victims in fairy floss (aka cotton candy). Every funny cliche in the book, but the girls were a little bit too young to really enjoy the satire, so instead they were terrified and husband & I had to consol the girls and calm them down. Now she's older, easy child has been searching for a copy of thaty film. </p><p></p><p>But seriously - a movie marathon at home can be a lot of fun especially if the birthday child gets to choose the films (with parental veto, of course). Girls curled up on the floor in PJs on the mattresses and in sleeping bags, watching movies and eating popcorn from the hard-working popcorn machine in the kitchen. Loads of snacks, rubbishy food and soft drink (no cola).</p><p></p><p>We still had a couple of problems with girl fights, a couple of girls ganged up on one of them, purely typical teen girl stuff but I had to have an instant mediation session and nearly had to call a couple of parents to fetch their kids for an early departure. NOT good. But we worked it out, the girls also worked togeter to help sort the behaviour problems.</p><p></p><p>You DO get the occasional problem kid causing trouble, even with typical teen kids. I hate t think what it would have been like if we'd been camping with that lot. And it was only 6 of them!</p><p></p><p>I fully agree with your view on the difficult child girl - when I said something about the excuse, I was being sarcastic. It doesn't show well in posts. I tihnk you've made the right call, banning that girl from future events. Even aside from her "anger issues", it shows disrespect to you and your efforts, as well as disrespect to N and her celebration, for the difficult child to be making everyone else's enjoyment a misery purely by her own nasty behaviour to other people. It's the ultimate in self-absorption to behave the way she does. If N makes any sort of fuss about it, ask her how she felt when the bad behaviour was happening, how she felt about the lack of control of the difficult child motormouth, and how different it could have been without the resultant hassles. It was a celebration for N but this other girl had to make it about herself. A selfish act, but also a tad spiteful, to sabotage it and turn it into a focus on herself.</p><p></p><p>Again, you did good.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 282330, member: 1991"] or maybe the gibbering wreck trophy for the terminally exhausted and bewildered... I'm thinking, 13 x 15 year-olds, or 15 x 13 year-olds - not a lot of difference, really. Equally terrifying. To continue my earlier post about the suggestion to have much smaller groups for maybe a one night sleepover, totally under your supervision with no other people around - when easy child was 11, we had a sleepover at our house with about 6 other kids. It was a two night sleepover, yes we were crazy, but it worked well. BEcause we live in a holiday resort as well as an isolated place, plus easy child's school was in the city - these kids had a ball, they could walk outside at night and see the stars, they saw wildlife (the furry kind) and husband took them for a bushwalk during the day on the Saturday. We had hired movies that easy child picked out, she wanted goofy funny & a bit scary movies, but found she'd bitten off more thna she could chew with "Killer Clowns From Outer Space" - a really BAAAD teen scary movie. The killer clowns were aliens out to wipe out life on earth by wrapping their victims in fairy floss (aka cotton candy). Every funny cliche in the book, but the girls were a little bit too young to really enjoy the satire, so instead they were terrified and husband & I had to consol the girls and calm them down. Now she's older, easy child has been searching for a copy of thaty film. But seriously - a movie marathon at home can be a lot of fun especially if the birthday child gets to choose the films (with parental veto, of course). Girls curled up on the floor in PJs on the mattresses and in sleeping bags, watching movies and eating popcorn from the hard-working popcorn machine in the kitchen. Loads of snacks, rubbishy food and soft drink (no cola). We still had a couple of problems with girl fights, a couple of girls ganged up on one of them, purely typical teen girl stuff but I had to have an instant mediation session and nearly had to call a couple of parents to fetch their kids for an early departure. NOT good. But we worked it out, the girls also worked togeter to help sort the behaviour problems. You DO get the occasional problem kid causing trouble, even with typical teen kids. I hate t think what it would have been like if we'd been camping with that lot. And it was only 6 of them! I fully agree with your view on the difficult child girl - when I said something about the excuse, I was being sarcastic. It doesn't show well in posts. I tihnk you've made the right call, banning that girl from future events. Even aside from her "anger issues", it shows disrespect to you and your efforts, as well as disrespect to N and her celebration, for the difficult child to be making everyone else's enjoyment a misery purely by her own nasty behaviour to other people. It's the ultimate in self-absorption to behave the way she does. If N makes any sort of fuss about it, ask her how she felt when the bad behaviour was happening, how she felt about the lack of control of the difficult child motormouth, and how different it could have been without the resultant hassles. It was a celebration for N but this other girl had to make it about herself. A selfish act, but also a tad spiteful, to sabotage it and turn it into a focus on herself. Again, you did good. Marg [/QUOTE]
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