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[quote=Anonymous]Yesterday was a middle school field trip to a music competition and then Hershey park for fun/the competition awards ceremony. Choir, band, orchestra, strings—every musical kid, pretty much. Nine Coach buses of kids and parents. It was great, but it was also A Lot, and required many parent volunteers/chaperones.

It was raining and 55 degrees. Any parent could either look up the weather the night before, or tell their kid to look up the weather the night before, and prepare accordingly. My kid was dressed in long pants, long sleeves, group T-shirt on top, sneakers, rain jacket. Some kids also had umbrellas.

TONS of kids—the majority of kids—were in shorts, short sleeves, no jacket of any kind, no umbrella, no proper shoes. Crocs, sandals, no socks, etc.

Lots of Facebook comments the night before: “I’m letting my kids wear shorts because I don’t have to hear her whine HAHAHA” well, did you think for one second about the chaperones, administrators, teachers and directors who DID have to hear your kid whine all day? I had a group of sixth graders. One was legit crying because she was wet and cold and said, “No one told me it was going to rain today,” and she doesn’t have a phone so couldn’t have looked it up herself. Like she’s 11 years old, it’s OK to help her prepare properly for a field trip. Even if it’s like, “I want you to look up the weather for tomorrow, and make a plan for what to wear and bring.” And then talk it through! So I bought my group rain ponchos for those who were cold and had no rain jacket.

You are responsible for your kid all the time, not just on days you have to see them/hear them/deal with them. You don’t have to baby them or do everything for them, but as a parent of teens and tweens, you at least need to make sure they’re thinking things through. [/quote]

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