What goes on at beach week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beach week came up at the Kavanaugh hearings. If you’re cool with your son or daughter binge drinking all week while young Brett Kavanaugh types are on the prowl, then I guess beach week is fine? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/26/17906426/beach-week-brett-kavanaugh-calendar

Give me a break…Totally all for it. It was a great week when I did it in Dewey back in 1990. My oldest had a great time 2 years ago and my daughter this past year. I trust my kids. And do you actually think it’s much different than college life from Thursday-Sunday every week sans the sand? You got to trust them at some point, people…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Graduated from local all-boys school in mid-80s. Junior year, we went to beach week for one week. Senior year, we did two weeks. Lots of drinking, partying, puking and hooking up. 12 of us stayed in a place meant for 6. It was disgusting. I didn’t check in with my parents for two weeks (no cellphones). We acted like a bunch of fools. It was two of the best weeks of my life, and I would do it all over again, if I could. My friends and I still reminisce about it 35 years later. My son just finished his freshman year at the same high school I attended. I will have no qualms about letting him go. I trust him and our parenting. For those of you who pass negative judgment on me, get a life. Let your kid be a kid.

This might be the saddest thing I’ve ever read on DCUM. Your life literally peaked during high school beach week? You are in your fifties and the most profound and important experience of your life was hooking up in high school? Maybe this is an argument against single-sex education, but your comment made me very sad for you.

Could not agree more. Pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Graduated from local all-boys school in mid-80s. Junior year, we went to beach week for one week. Senior year, we did two weeks. Lots of drinking, partying, puking and hooking up. 12 of us stayed in a place meant for 6. It was disgusting. I didn’t check in with my parents for two weeks (no cellphones). We acted like a bunch of fools. It was two of the best weeks of my life, and I would do it all over again, if I could. My friends and I still reminisce about it 35 years later. My son just finished his freshman year at the same high school I attended. I will have no qualms about letting him go. I trust him and our parenting. For those of you who pass negative judgment on me, get a life. Let your kid be a kid.

This might be the saddest thing I’ve ever read on DCUM. Your life literally peaked during high school beach week? You are in your fifties and the most profound and important experience of your life was hooking up in high school? Maybe this is an argument against single-sex education, but your comment made me very sad for you.

Could not agree more. Pathetic.

Not letting your ADULT children grow up is more pathetic, yet you’ll be surprised when they have no life skills

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Graduated from local all-boys school in mid-80s. Junior year, we went to beach week for one week. Senior year, we did two weeks. Lots of drinking, partying, puking and hooking up. 12 of us stayed in a place meant for 6. It was disgusting. I didn’t check in with my parents for two weeks (no cellphones). We acted like a bunch of fools. It was two of the best weeks of my life, and I would do it all over again, if I could. My friends and I still reminisce about it 35 years later. My son just finished his freshman year at the same high school I attended. I will have no qualms about letting him go. I trust him and our parenting. For those of you who pass negative judgment on me, get a life. Let your kid be a kid.

This might be the saddest thing I’ve ever read on DCUM. Your life literally peaked during high school beach week? You are in your fifties and the most profound and important experience of your life was hooking up in high school? Maybe this is an argument against single-sex education, but your comment made me very sad for you.

Could not agree more. Pathetic.

Not letting your ADULT children grow up is more pathetic, yet you’ll be surprised when they have no life skills

NP: Do you actually believe beach week is the only way to grow up? Mine are mature young adults, who've been working since 15, and driving, and going places on their own for years. They don't enjoy the typical high school party scene, which is why they didn't want to go. I went in high school; it can be fine, but let's not pretend it is a necessary rite of passage. Adn it is importatn that we admit that it can be a very bad experience for many people, especially girls. It's not all fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beach week came up at the Kavanaugh hearings. If you’re cool with your son or daughter binge drinking all week while young Brett Kavanaugh types are on the prowl, then I guess beach week is fine? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/26/17906426/beach-week-brett-kavanaugh-calendar

Give me a break…Totally all for it. It was a great week when I did it in Dewey back in 1990. My oldest had a great time 2 years ago and my daughter this past year. I trust my kids. And do you actually think it’s much different than college life from Thursday-Sunday every week sans the sand? You got to trust them at some point, people…

Different poster, but I agree with this. I am not saying it’s some right of passage, but to go political ie Kavanaugh with regards to beach week is just too dumb.

If a kid want to go have some fun , drink and explore who they are with those who have similar feelings , then beach week is for them. Totally cool with it. If it’s not something a kid is interested in, then totally cool also. The vast majority of both the girls and the guys will turn out to be great people.

And there is a ton of kids in between both these ends of the spectrum that’ll turn out as great people as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What parent wants that kind of responsibility as the 'chaperone'? If someone, underage, gets drunk and in trouble, guess, isn't the chaperoning parent on the hook? No thanks.

Good kids make bad choices, especially with peer pressure. Or someone from another house, shows up and creates an issue.

The only thing that I would be LESS likely to do than allow my DC to go to beach week would be to chaperone beach week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beach week came up at the Kavanaugh hearings. If you’re cool with your son or daughter binge drinking all week while young Brett Kavanaugh types are on the prowl, then I guess beach week is fine? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/26/17906426/beach-week-brett-kavanaugh-calendar

Give me a break…Totally all for it. It was a great week when I did it in Dewey back in 1990. My oldest had a great time 2 years ago and my daughter this past year. I trust my kids. And do you actually think it’s much different than college life from Thursday-Sunday every week sans the sand? You got to trust them at some point, people…

Different poster, but I agree with this. I am not saying it’s some right of passage, but to go political ie Kavanaugh with regards to beach week is just too dumb.

If a kid want to go have some fun , drink and explore who they are with those who have similar feelings , then beach week is for them. Totally cool with it. If it’s not something a kid is interested in, then totally cool also. The vast majority of both the girls and the guys will turn out to be great people.

And there is a ton of kids in between both these ends of the spectrum that’ll turn out as great people as well.

If your kid finds out who they are through drinking at beach week, that’s a whole other kind of problem. We may be training to raise very different kinds of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went from gds and it was a great time. Terrible handjobs, some puking, minor property damage.

Lol!

[Anonymous]

Hope you are ready for grandchildren.

[Anonymous]

Legal drinking age is 21.

But parents want to send their 18 YO DCs out of town with peers for a week of mostly unsupervised debauchery.

Nice.