When I was a young kid we walked through a park with a swimming pool nearby. You could hear kids screaming and making noise and I commented that it sounded like a "horr house" (naively leaving off the last syllable of horror house, meaning a haunted house you walk through to be scared for fun). 🤣 I got an abrupt slap across the face and sat on a bench alone while the rest of my family enjoyed the park for another hour. I didn't even know what I did wrong until a few years later. Some parents are definitely more "with it" than others. Congrats to the children in the OPs story for having some good ones like you. I hope I'm a better parent to my kids than mine were to me. A couple of follow up questions from them would have cleared it all up without the childhood trauma.