Would you be ticked?

[Anonymous]

OP you need to check your paranoia. Are you always this over protective? Sounds like a fun sleepover.

[Anonymous]

Please wake up. Your daughter told you something that happened that was a nice thing and you are going off.

You are translating to your daughter not to share things with you that might make you mad. This is not a good way to head into the teen years. You want her to feel that she share things with you that may be a lot more important than sleeping under the stars.

[Anonymous]

I would not be ticked. That sounds like fun.

Your daughter might be ticked, though -- did she check herself when she came home? Check her sleeping bag, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it sounds pretty cool. I honestly can't even imagine being upset.

+1 great summer memory.

[Anonymous]

Well, the ground was pretty wet on Sat; it rained quite a bit during the day as I recall. There were also pop-up showers during the night...

Looking at the NWS weather site, confirms this. I think this must be a troll. If the weather was nice, I would buy the story, but with the weather we had, people would probably not slept on the grass, at least.

I would have a problem with my DD sleeping under the rain clouds....but not the stars

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, the ground was pretty wet on Sat; it rained quite a bit during the day as I recall. There were also pop-up showers during the night...

Looking at the NWS weather site, confirms this. I think this must be a troll. If the weather was nice, I would buy the story, but with the weather we had, people would probably not slept on the grass, at least.

I would have a problem with my DD sleeping under the rain clouds....but not the stars

Sometimes I love DCUM, and this is one of those times.

[Anonymous]

Thank you. (If you are going to make up a story, get the facts straight....weather data is easy to find)....

I once read on here a story claiming the activities of the day of the derecho....person forgot that it was unbearably hot that day....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, the ground was pretty wet on Sat; it rained quite a bit during the day as I recall. There were also pop-up showers during the night...

Looking at the NWS weather site, confirms this. I think this must be a troll. If the weather was nice, I would buy the story, but with the weather we had, people would probably not slept on the grass, at least.

I would have a problem with my DD sleeping under the rain clouds....but not the stars

You realize it's entirely possible she changed a small detail of what day this was so that she wouldn't be quite as easily recognizable if the other mom is on DCUM too?

[Anonymous]

you realize that last week, it was raining most afternoon's and evening. You realize the whole posting read like a troll.

[Anonymous]

There's this thing called a tarp. Also another thing called a patio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's this thing called a tarp. Also another thing called a patio.

Fine if the ground is wet....not so much if it is raining....

[Anonymous]

Yes, I would have been annoyed. But your DD prob. went with what everyone else was doing. I'm surprised the host parents allowed it.

[Anonymous]

Host parents most likely did not know. Lots of things could happen and the host parents wouldn't know and it wouldn't be because host parents are permissive or not paying attention. Of course for all the bad things you can imagine, virtually all do not happen.

However, welcome to the age when you can not control everything. Not you, not the host parents, no one.

[Anonymous]

No. I would think it was great.

[Anonymous]

We do that kind of thing all the time, so no I would not be ticked.

It would never have occurred to me that another parent would have a problem with this.

As the host parent, if I found out you were upset by what I allowed your DD to do at our home I would feel badly that I had caused you to worry, and I would not allow backyard camping again if your DD were part of the group. However, if our DDs were very close friends, this incident would prompt me to try to have a discussion with you to pin down what your expectations are for a supervising adult when your DD is at someone's home because I would want to find out if your expectations were something I was comfortable meeting or whether I would have to decline to have your DD in my care in the future. Our expectations for supervision at this age seem vastly different.

She's your daughter so it's completely your business what you are comfortable with, but if I could give you a bit of advice, I would suggest (gently) that you try not to allow your worries to get in the way of your DD's growing independence and more importantly her willingness to have open conversations with you about what's going on in her life.