Prom weekend…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since when is prom a beach trip. I have never heard of this and I have one in college and one graduating from HS this year. Isn’t that saved for Beach week. Lord.

It’s the same creep that happened to the wedding industry with stupid destination bridal and bachelor parties, etc

[Anonymous]

Are they doing this instead of prom? My kids’ school has prom on a Saturday. I don’t see how one could go to prom and spend the night at the beach on the same weekend.

Graduation is days away. I would get through that before I let my kid go away overnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So my DC and his girlfriend were just going to go a beach day trip for prom weekend so I thought we had it easy. Now they were invited to go to a friend’s beach condo for the weekend. It will be 4 of them in a one bedroom with pull out couch in the living room. It is in a sleepier beach town - not a typical prom weekend area.

The other two kids are not dating - just friends so supposedly the girls will sleep in the bedroom and boys in the living room.

My take is that I would rather have them go away with the other two kids since that are genuinely nice kids/have been friends for awhile and don’t “party” as opposed to them deciding last minute to meet up with some of the other groups that will be partying.

They will all be going away to college in just a few months so we have to allow more freedom - so have the parents all talk to them before hand about safety (don’t let anyone go somewhere on their own/go in pairs), have another reminder talk about consent etc.

How are other parents handling their kids going away prom weekend? What ground rules did you set up?

You’re so gullible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So my DC and his girlfriend were just going to go a beach day trip for prom weekend so I thought we had it easy. Now they were invited to go to a friend’s beach condo for the weekend. It will be 4 of them in a one bedroom with pull out couch in the living room. It is in a sleepier beach town - not a typical prom weekend area.

The other two kids are not dating - just friends so supposedly the girls will sleep in the bedroom and boys in the living room.

My take is that I would rather have them go away with the other two kids since that are genuinely nice kids/have been friends for awhile and don’t “party” as opposed to them deciding last minute to meet up with some of the other groups that will be partying.

They will all be going away to college in just a few months so we have to allow more freedom - so have the parents all talk to them before hand about safety (don’t let anyone go somewhere on their own/go in pairs), have another reminder talk about consent etc.

How are other parents handling their kids going away prom weekend? What ground rules did you set up?

You’re so gullible.

OP here - the other two are going as friends - they have a brother/ sister type relationship so quite sure they don’t want to sleep in the same bed. 😉. I also get that sleeping arrangements can change.

If DC was a freshman I would have a very different take - it would be an absolute no. In just a few months they will all be away at college where you have no control over where they are/what they are doing, so that is part of the reason why this decision is so hard. We keep trying to instill good values, so far DC has not given us a reason not to trust him, and understand them wanting to have a last weekend together as a group since they will all be going in different directions in a few months. They are also not going where many other kids are going so not worried about peer pressure for them to join parties they don’t want to be part of. The girls are both 18 to answer a prior posters question.

My concern is more about ensuring that they go as a group when they go out/don’t let someone walk to the bathroom alone, even if they get in a fight never leave anyone behind - the same rules we keep trying to push through to them to be safe in college on a few months.