Getting big when little ones get small

Day 4 of my vacation and I can tell you there is no rest. We are up moving, eating, moving, playing, moving, eating and now finally have put all 15 to bed. The girls are exhausted and the mothers are too. When girls get tired they get little... Like little girls... and they have temper tantrums, they stamp their feet and they sass the mother, even at 15. I don't take sass well and have told my soccer girls "don't sass the mother". When 3 moms are responsible for 15 girls there is no fooling around. The village is little, and the mothers are big. All mother's need to be big, I know my mother still is. I still have consequences at 43 with my mom.. now its probably no pie at the next family dinner, but in the end its respect. There is something in the saying "respect your elders". I am confused about when I became a "elder".