I just wanted to get your opinion on this situation, not really that it matters, I just kind of want to confirm that I'm not crazy.
My group of friends goes camping a few times a year together, we've been doing this forever. One of my buddies has a 3yo daughter, who has come camping with us before, but has more recently developed a serious bratty attitude (throwing temper tantrums over the slightest thing) and it's evident my buddy and his wife have no intention of disciplining her. On our most recent camping trip, she was a major buzz-kill, basically whining, screaming and being a brat the whole time. She also randomly screamed a few times during the night (sleeping in tents, so pretty much everyone was woken by it). After the trip, I talked to several of my friends and my wife, and the general consensus was that if they want to bring the kid camping, they should at least stay in another campsite a little ways down the road so we can have some separation of "adult space" and "family space." I also tried talking to the dad about it, but he was very defensive and basically thinks he and his daughter can do no wrong.
So I just sent out a group email for our next trip to Moab (the way we normally organize these things). At the end of the email, I wrote:
P.S. it has been respectuflly requested by popular sentiment that those with toddlers in tow please set up camp a ways down the road. Brandon needs his beauty sleep.
Both my buddy and his wife immediately emailed me back quite butt hurt.
God forbid you guys lose a little sleep… I’m not camping down the road so we are out.
etc, etc.
I know for a fact after our last trip that if they camp in the same site as us, some of my friends definitely won't come. I'm not suggesting they don't come, I'm just suggesting they set up a separate space so that people can get away from it when the kid is being a holy terror.
Am I being too harsh?