Right so on seeing this thread:: http://www.gladtalk.co.uk/forum/the-kid-in-the-pussy-parlour-friday-afternoon-t4208.html
about a kid at the Pussy Parloure I've remembered loads of stuff which I found a bit weird....

I saw LOADS of kids. Was so bizarre, especially during Trentemoller's set on Saturday at the back on the RHS. There was a boy about 10 years old wearing a hardcore raver jacket with glowsticks and doing a balloon. Fine bring your kids if you stay with them, introduce them to awesome music but that seemed to be taking it a step too far. What did everyone else think of hte kids?

i did see a few kid stompers around with there parents which brought a smile to me face
but none doing ballons
lol

We've been taking our daugher (7 yrs old) to festivals for the last three years but we wouldn't take her to glade. Thats for adults only imo but fair enough if you've no baby sitter and its your only option as long as they're in bed early and you stay in a responsible state

KIDS DOING BALOONS?????? - why didn't security do something about this? well worng

Someone posted this pic a while back, from Glade 2006:

..so maybe lots of people let their kids do it.


I'm in two minds about taking my little girl to festivals when she's a bit bigger... I'd love to, in theory it'd be a great experience for her... but you see some scary sights, people in all sorts of messes, it's upsetting enough to an adult sometimes

OMG that's so wrong. When I have kids they definetely need to go to festivals, but I'd take them to much more family orientated ones, like Sunrise etc. And you have to be willing to put their needs above your own, no matter how much you want to rave the weekend away. Giving them balloons though.....Dark.

We take ours to the more child orientated ones - Wychwood and Beautiful Days

This year maybe Sugarhill and Thimbleberry

Next year def Shamania too and maybe Shambala

She loves them. The kids workshops are usually excellent and its great for them to mix with lots of different types of people. We always camp with some fellow 'old gits' of another msg board, who have quite a few kiddies with them. At BD we take turns to go off to 'do our own thing' at about 9pm whilst the other stays at the main stage and watches the bands with LilB.

I'd thoroughly reccomend anyone to do a kiddy orientated festival. Its magically watching my daughters face when she's taliking to the fairies or watching the flying lanterns.

Tbh .... that photo could just be a kiddy playing with a balloon

That photo is of a kid playing with a balloon. I can't comment on the other incident of the kid doing the balloon. But are you absolutely sure that it was a kid doing a nos balloon? I find it slightly hard to believe that it was.

Efflux-J wrote:That photo is of a kid playing with a balloon. I can't comment on the other incident of the kid doing the balloon. But are you absolutely sure that it was a kid doing a nos balloon? I find it slightly hard to believe that it was.

exactly, i'm sure there is lots of normal balloons floating about glade

pinkissimo wrote:Someone posted this pic a while back, from Glade 2006:

..so many lots of people let their kids do it.


I'm in two minds about taking my little girl to festivals when she's a bit bigger... I'd love to, in theory it'd be a great experience for her... but you see some scary sights, people in all sorts of messes, it's upsetting enough to an adult sometimes

one hell of a pic that is

TallSarah wrote:We take ours to the more child orientated ones - Wychwood and Beautiful Days

This year maybe Sugarhill and Thimbleberry

Next year def Shamania too and maybe Shambala

She loves them. The kids workshops are usually excellent and its great for them to mix with lots of different types of people. We always camp with some fellow 'old gits' of another msg board, who have quite a few kiddies with them. At BD we take turns to go off to 'do our own thing' at about 9pm whilst the other stays at the main stage and watches the bands with LilB.

I'd thoroughly reccomend anyone to do a kiddy orientated festival. Its magically watching my daughters face when she's taliking to the fairies or watching the flying lanterns.

Tbh .... that photo could just be a kiddy playing with a balloon

That all sounds wonderful, I'll definitely do my research into child-orientated festivals, I don't really know much about any of them. I'm sure my daughter would love it, she's extremely sociable, and I want her to be as open-minded as possible. How old is your little one?

EDITED TO ADD: aw wow, I just read up on some of those festies you mentioned and the little workshops they have for kids... amazing!!! I kinda wish I was a kid now!

I remember 04 being a good one for folks with kids less people less hassle. Now not so sure. Must of been a nightmare keeping the kids happy while it pissed it down this year.

Kids love mud though, think it was more a case of keeping parents happy whilst kids enjoyed the mud,

I remember seeing a middle aged bloke who was leading a troupe of his three or four young daughters down towards the music, playing a bugel (really well) with everyone cheering him... His daughters looked like the most embarrassed children in the world at that point!

Overall I think it really depends on the way you bring your children up, not everyone wants to shelter them away from the real world and just because children are exposed to something doesn't mean that they are going to go mad/fuck up/do loads of drugs. Remember that 'normality' is totally relative. Also I think that Glade-goers are overall the types who would look out and after any children around.

My only hesitation may be the cries of 'ket', 'acid', 'pills', towards the end of the festival but again, it depends how you want to bring up your children and if they are aware of drugs and what they are about then it's fine.

Re: that picture... err... there were uses for balloons before hippy crack you know!!

tuzza wrote:Re: that picture... err... there were uses for balloons before hippy crack you know!!

Exactly.

And sometimes they're filled with helium, which can be even more fun.

tuzza wrote:Re: that picture... err... there were uses for balloons before hippy crack you know!!

Errrrrr yes, clearly I know this! I did say 'maybe' although I admit at first I made an obvious typo.. I wasn't saying "Oh yeh look here's photo evidence" I just thought I'd put it so that the people discussing this could make up their mind.


Anyway.. I don't really agree that it's all about how you bring your kids up. No matter how open-minded and aware they are, the sight of someone smacking up, gurning their faces off, would be disturbing to a kid... the sight of people in really bad states passing out... or with massive eyes popping out of their heads... I wouldn't want my kid seeing that, it would scare them to see another person act that way!

Yeah I am sure it may be unsettling for a child as you have said, but no more so than someone drunk and behaving in a similar way. The point I am getting at is it is that what a child feels is unsettling or scary is to a large part governed by what their parents tell them is wrong and right and good and bad.

Someone on drugs is not scary to a child who has not been brainwashed into thinking that way. Ever spoken to a child who has grown up around adults who are honest with them about these things? They do not see anything odd or strange about it. Like I say I am not saying that I would want to bring my children up this way but it is silly to think that children have instinctive thoughts about things like this from the day they are born because they don't; they are all put into their heads by adults.

What an interesting debate - the concept of nature or nurture.
I don't mind children being at fetivals, but i can say i don't go there to get 'mahsed' alone, its a by product and something which i only do when the 'vibe' is right, not to creat ea vibe. my point being that i have rolled down hills, amde paper aeroplanes and climbed trees at festivals with kids. I go to escape the daily grind and listen to the music, and rolling down hills with kids is definitely a brake from my norm (offices, adults, numbers blahblahblah).
I have to say thoug, i geet quite upset when i see f****d parents trollying their kids around. I think there's a line that some adults choose to cross and that upsets me. I agree that you dont HAVE to teach your kids that drugs are wrong, but getting soo mangled that you are not that connected to the outside world when kids are there is not good.
I saw a kid, maybe 18months old, at the Teknival last summer in Cornwall. The soundsystems were SO VERY LOUD! and his young ears just shouldn't have been near all that noise. That was when i thought, this is too much, there should be no kids that young here.
Even i had ear plugs in, and my ears have been abused.
Sorry a bit of a rambly post, but to wrap it up: IMO kids at chilled festies with stuff for em to do and lots of lovely scenery and space hoppers - good. Kids at teknivals with spacked out parents and little ears - BAD!

I'm pretty sure we had this debate last year, but I may as well state my view again in case you've all been feverishly clicking refresh in the hope of finding out what imitationleather thinks about kids at festivals. So, if the unthinkable ever happens and I have kids I wouldn't take them to a festival like Glade, because I think the music, atmosphere and general state of the people who attend it is unsuitable for them. Is there actually anything for children at Glade? It's not like Glastonbury where there's a massive area catering for them.

Although, I personally don't really like children and so I'm obviously going to opt to not be near them for a few days!

On a sort-of realated note, on the Sunday at the Pussy Parlure two kids who must have been about ten were going from table to table selling stuff like lighters, chewing gum, lollies etc. One of the security blokes asked to see what they were selling and then when he was satisfied it wasn't drugs he let them carry on. He shouldn't have done that, should he? For a start, I thought it was against the rules to sell stuff unless you had permission, and secondly children aren't allowed to have lighters!

imitationleather wrote:Although, I personally don't really like children and so I'm obviously going to opt to not be near them for a few days!

Best quote EVER!! haha.

I was I'd for a lighter in Threshers the other day (other shops and wine merchants are available) I was amaaaazed. I've never been i'd'ddd for anything, not even going into nightclubs when i was 15. tututut. So you're right in thinking kids shouldn't be allowed to sell lighters.

i have mix views on kids at festivals...for me if i had a kid i would never bring them to glade, do ya ever see the ppl ran about at that fest wiped out lol or k-holed alive ffs