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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] :roll:   Yes, the few incidences of kids getting lost on field trips is scary, but if you live your life by these kinds of pretty rare occurrences, then you might as well give up living.

There are school shootings pretty regularly now.  Are you going to homeschool.
Car accidents are pretty common. Are you going to stop driving your car.
There have been a few incidences of plane crashes. Are you going to never fly.

C'mon OP.[/quote]

+1.  OP is keeping her kid from field trips with classmates due to an irrational fear of a rare event.

Yes, it's possible--but rare--that kids get lost for a few minutes; rarely longer than that.  Even more unlikely that the "experiment" OP undertook (in which she took her child away from the group for 2.5 hours before they noticed) would have any bearing on likely real-life situations.  In a real-life situation, once a child realizes they're lost, they go to a grownup, and are typically reunited with their group fairly quickly.

OP is overestimating the likelihood of a rare event (getting lost) occurring, and if it does, she thinks it will be worse than it likely would be.

-parent of another 7yo who loves field trips with friends[/quote]

Unless a child is kidnapped.[/quote]

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