21-year-old friend group caught in conflict after asking a mother’s young kids to stop filming at concert, group then blamed when mosh pit breaks out: 'Music festivals aren’t a place for children'

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Emma Saven
Jun 29, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

The crowd is chanting, and we can feel the sound vibrations through the floor, eventually moving up our whole body. The lights flicker in unpredictable patterns that start to get more rapid, then suddenly drops to complete darkness. Then boom… the spotlight breaks the stage, and there they are: the artist we drove five hours to see for a whole 30-minute set. But boy, was it worth it. We cannot wipe the excitement off our faces, the smile mirrored on each of our friends' faces too.

And just as we're about to break out into simultaneous harmony with the main act… it happens. The moment we dreaded but prayed would never come. A six-foot-five man cuts in front of us (which we already did to the whole crowd, but we're not six feet tall!) and there it goes.

Vision access: blocked and denied.

So instead of getting the perfect view of the girl who has sat on a poster in our bedroom since we were 13 years old (fine, you guessed it…it's Miley Cyrus), we're forced to stare at the sweat-stained T-shirt of a man we don't know, while he gets every single word terribly wrong, making the whole situation even worse. "We did not just get cut off by a fake fan."

Then the show ends, and we're left feeling utterly defeated. In case you were wondering… that was so not worth the five-hour drive.

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  • If our story interests you, here’s another one with a similar taste. A group of friends is left frustrated as young kids are brought to a festival by their mother. While filming the entire time in the front row and blocking the groups’ view, tension begins to grow between them and the children’s mother. Unfortunately, and quite predictably, a mosh pit breaks out in the crowd, creating a dangerous environment for the kids, in which the mother somehow finds an senseless reason to blame the group for.

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    "One of my friends told the mom that this is normal festival behavior and she shouldn't bring children here in the first place"
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    AITAH for accidentally making a kid cry at a music festival

    Me and my friends (all 21+) went to a music festival recently. It didn't have an age restriction but I believe people under the age of 16 needed to have someone of age with them.
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    During the day there were "family friendly" artists so I can see why there would be families there. However, at night it was mostly
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    d&b and artists with r-rated songs performing. Now heres where the actual story begins. Me and my friends were in the large crowd before the stage,
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    trying to make our way to the front row because an artist who my friend is a big fan of was going to perform. We made it to the second row because right before the
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    railings were two girls: one looked about 12 and the other no older than 8 (no earplugs or anything to protect them from loud music).
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    Their mom was there with them. The artist started playing and others besides them started jumping and dancing, enjoying the
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    show. Thats when their mom shot us a few dirty looks. The 12 year old girl kept filming pretty much the entire show. my friend is quite short, so she tapped the girl's
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    shoulder and politely asked if she could lower her phone because she couldnt see very well. The kid didnt reply and kept filming. A mosh pit
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    opened, so everyone got squished together in front of the stage against the railing. I guess the shoving happened pretty rapidly because the kid got pushed against
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    the railing hard enough for her to start crying (her phone also happened to fall to the other side of the railing from her hand, but security returned it to her). The
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    mom then started yelling at us for not being careful and that her kid could've gotten more seriously hurt. One of my friends told the mom that this is normal festival
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    behavior (as in shoving and pushing happens) and she shouldn't bring children here in the first place. The mom continued yelling but the music was loud
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    enough for us not to hear what she was saying. Personally I feel like music festivals aren't a place for children but then again maybe I'm the AH.
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    R ge-Parrot NTA imo. I feel like the event staff should have notified the mom how poor of an idea it was. Maybe they did and she went off though.
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    yameretzu NTA to be honest I agree with you that I wouldn't have taken my 12 and 8 year old to the later event.
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    Frejian NTA If it's the type of music where a pit is likely to occur, the front row is definitely NOT the place for a 12 and an 8 year old. That is entirely on the mom. You can't help how the crowd surges.
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    Lisa_Knows Best I was around 25 when I got caught in a mosh pit. I was alone. If it wasn't for a very kind man and his partner I have no idea how I would have made it out. That's not a place for kids.
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    punk_lover I'm over people bringing small children to festivals, it's just not the time, especially the later shows
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    FormSuccessful1122 ESH Her kids didn't belong there if they can't handle it. The kid shouldn't have had her phone up. (People really need to learn this.) But how ride of you to just shove your way to the front as if you're the only fans there.
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    inkslingerben NTA If the mother wanted to keep her child safe, she should not have been so close to the stage where people push closer.
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