Would you let your 16-17 year old do this?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen these friends with your own eyes? The traveling part is fine - Boston is super to easy to navigate via public transportation.

Yes. She has zoomed with them (cameras on). It's a really nice group of teens and young adults who have bonded over a very niche interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen these friends with your own eyes? The traveling part is fine - Boston is super to easy to navigate via public transportation.

Yes. She has zoomed with them (cameras on). It's a really nice group of teens and young adults who have bonded over a very niche interest.

That’s very different than you meeting them in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if her return flight is cancelled? (not a stretch these days) No hotels that you would feel comfortable with would allow such a young teen spend the night unaccompanied.

This is definitely a concern. I have friends of friends in Boston, but no one close.

[Anonymous]

Have you met these friends? If not, no.

If you have met them in person I'd let my kid go. I'm pretty laid back with my kids but there's no way I'd let them go without meeting at least a few of these friends first.

[Anonymous]

If you want her to end up in a child trafficking situation go for it.

[Anonymous]

Can you fly up together - let her do her thing - and meet up again to fly home.
Give her the opportunity to be independent - and you enjoy a day of being a tourist?

[Anonymous]

My 16-year-old would not have been ready for this but I definitely was. Have you considered the train instead?

[Anonymous]

If I knew the friends personally yes. With what you are describing I really don’t know if I would or not. Have you talked to any of the other parents?

[Anonymous]

I would go with your daughter. You don’t have to accompany her throughout the event, but it is good for the group to know, and for your kid to know, that you are there for her. Even if you are just chilling at the hotel with dcum and a Dunkin’ coffee.

Plus you guys can stay overnight which might be more fun than flying up and back in a day.

[Anonymous]

This would be a hard “no” for me.

[Anonymous]

I would go with her. I'm guessing the event is related to the interest they bonded over? Go and scope it out, meet the kids, then say I'll meet you at the airport. Space within reason.

[Anonymous]

Teens’ frontal lobes are not yet fully developed, and there can be a group think mentality when they are all together, for better or for worse. My 18 year old son is very mature and responsible, yet I’ve been gobsmacked by some of the dumb things he’s done that I wouldn’t have thought him capable of. I just think it’s risky.

I would accompany her and find something tomdobehike she is at the event. I’d also stay overnight, just to make it less exhausting.

[Anonymous]

* find something to do while she is at the event ^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would go with your daughter. You don’t have to accompany her throughout the event, but it is good for the group to know, and for your kid to know, that you are there for her. Even if you are just chilling at the hotel with dcum and a Dunkin’ coffee.

Plus you guys can stay overnight which might be more fun than flying up and back in a day.

Yes, that's the alternative and probably what we will end up doing. I don't at all mind a day to myself to wander around Boston!