Would you let your rising senior go on an unchaperoned trip to the Bahamas?
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Anonymous
| No. Not in a million years. |
Anonymous
| Nope! |
Anonymous
| Never |
Anonymous
While I'm funding his lifestyle, I make those decisions. He doesn't have free reign just because he is 18. |
Anonymous
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Absolutely, positively, NO!
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Anonymous
+1, especially if we are paying for college and graduate school. At 18, you want to make 100% of the decisions, you provide your own food, shelter, health insurance, phone, transportation and everything else you need. |
Anonymous
| No way! |
Anonymous
| Nope |
Anonymous
| No chance in hell. Even if my college kid wanted to go I would voice my displeasure (FWIW - but my kids do take my opinions to heart) and they’d have to fund and plan all logistics themselves. For high school - especially a mixed group - over my dead body. |
Anonymous
| No way. |
Anonymous
| How is this even a question? No no no! |
Anonymous
| No. |
Anonymous
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Hell Freaking No.
And Roll Tide. |
Anonymous
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Hahahahaha!
My kid would be useless if something actually went wrong. |
Anonymous
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I would be a lot more likely to allow a pre-college kid go to Italy for several weeks on his own or with friends than to a party house in the Bahamas.
Still, one has to draw the line somewhere. For us, it's no unchaperoned trips until they're in college. Once they've crossed the college threshold then they can go away with friends without chaperones. But not before. And I do have my justifications. You learn so much about handling yourself and taking upon responsibilities for your actions in those first few months of college, and from the safety of a college campus, that by the time you go on a trip with friends for Spring Break or the following summer, you're already much better positioned than you were just a year earlier in high school. |