Giok, Whenever I hear this protest I have to ask the question WHO paid for your education, sewage and trash clearance etc? Were you not a child once?
I know and am aware of the choice I made!
This discussion is not about taxes, but about whether there should be some sort of overall pricing structure rather than the vastly ranging prices and vastly ranging choice of things for kids to do. As a (and I'm guessing here) non- parent you may not quite understand what it is like to attend a festival with kids in tow. I acknowledge that it is my choice to have kids, my choice to take them to a festival, my choice to pay for them to be there, but it seems absurd the prices I have to pay at some places and not at others and bizarre that some venues offer lots of stimulating activities for the youth attending festivals whilst others offer little or nothing.
An hour or two of play A session with Dr Sunshine for example, singing traditional (and new) kids songs and games, - and I am happy to be present with my children at such events, I would rather be there then dump them, makes them feel a part of the festival, lets off some of their steam and .....if they are happy kids, believe me, everybody else will be happier too! Dartmoor festival have a great kids session on the last day during the first half of the last concert, so that parents can attend the first half unaccompanied. They also have things for the children to see and join in with like a broom dancing competition and a step dance competition, these are following a workshop to show you how to do such things - for children of all ages! Sorry if your taxes are paying for my kids, my dads may well have paid for you!
Cheers, Lucy