Screaming baby at ski resort -- who's right and who's wrong?

You don't lock yourself up til your kid turns four. You don't go to a fucking ski resort with a baby, either.

I don't think we need to wonder where the "Everyone gets a trophy" mentality comes from anymore.

You don't need to pick a side on this one, folks. Both sides were assholes.

 

Why? Ski resorts have all sorts of amenities and activities for babies. I'd bet money the resort even supplied a crib from its supply room, which it would only have if it regularly housed babies.

 

Only because several people have the wrong-minded idea of bringing a baby to a ski resort.

 

You certainly do not lock yourself up until your youngest turns 3 or 4. Not what I would suggest at all.

When our kids were that age, I wanted to show them the world and expose them to everything that was reasonable. Take in the simple pleasures but also know that a toddler often struggles in an unfamiliar surrounding -- especially for an overnight. That's really, really difficult, for both the kid and the parents.

We took our toddlers/young children to sit-down restaurants but I never considered taking them to fine dining. They'll get that experience soon on how to behave and interact in a place with white tablecloths and wine lists. It's important they know to handle those situations for later -- when they're on a job interview or dating someone and meeting THEIR parents, for instance.

I remember one moment, when our kids were, I think, 3 and 1 and we had just driven 400 miles and were staying at a fairly upscale inn. I knew the owner on a casual basis and he invited us to stay there for free. We still had about 150 miles left until home. This wasn't a hotel so much as a bed and breakfast. Wooden floors. Fancy bed. Our youngest was just out of sorts. Crying. Summer day and the AC wasn't the best.

We stayed for about an hour and then wife and I looked at each other, packed up the kids and drove the three hours to go home.

Two major components... we knew it would stop the crying and we also knew others were paying $178 a night to stay there -- we didn't want to ruin it.

 

No, it's true. When you claim that they weren't doing anything to the people in the next room, you are being willfully ignorant. They are keeping them up. Whether or not they were right to put their own desires ahead of consideration for others is a matter of debate. There is no question at all that they were disturbing them.

Nobody said they shouldn't do anything. There is a very large difference between taking children that young to a fair or even a restaurant and having the kid at a resort where they might keep people up all night with a crying fit. If you don't understand that, that is another example of ignorance.

 

Most ski resorts have tubing and tobogganing, who is that geared too?

 

The baby is too young to remember it, so the parents should have waterboarded the baby in the bathtub.

I keed, I keed.

 

Not to babies.

The only thing that families with babies look for at major destination ski resorts is a day care center where
they can drop junior off and head to the slopes for the day.

As far as putting kids in ski school the minimum age is 3

 

Alternate runs. I have done it and have seen others do it.

If you don't want to go to a place that might have kids or babies stay home.

 

Don't take it out on you? They're the ones waking you up.

 

Just because the resort accommodates babies doesn't mean it's a good idea to bring them. I'm sure Hooters has high chairs, too.

I'm just surprised how many people think it's okay to bring babies everywhere.

 

I don't get the "MIGHT act up" part of this equation. The baby was teething. There's no "might" about it.