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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most terrifying thought to me is that all those teen couples parents were “so cool” that the teens thought to ask this in the first place. My teen would know the answer without asking. [/quote]
Are you someone that would say no to beach week period? If not, why is the trip with other teen couples worse than a trip with a group of teens who aren’t dating?[/quote]
I went to beach week myself 30 yrs ago, and if he were trying to actually go to beach week at the same time/place as rest of his school, I would not be struggling this much.  I definitely hear you on the "how is it worse" line of reasoning.  But truthfully, what they are trying to do is not really beach week.  I don't like the idea of them "playing house" for the week.  It feels like a couple's retreat, not beach week (they are doing different week/different town than their high school).  And though I can see that this scenario may help mitigate some of the debauchery inherent at beach week, it's the pretense of it that I am struggling with.  Kind of like the difference between acknowledging and knowing about something vs. giving express approval and facilitating.  I guess that may seem like semantics to some, but I see a difference there.  I am thinking I will make him foot the bill himself for a separate hotel room (1/4 mi behind the house). I know that this will just be a formality and that he will probably not stay in the hotel at all (heck he may even use it to stay there with his gf some nights), but at least it will cost him more, and we will not be sending him down there with the preplanned, parent-approved logistics of shacking up with his girlfriend in same room for the week.  Truthfully, if he would have gone down same time/town with rest of his school and stayed in a separate house from his girlfriend (co-ed or not), I would have paid or at least helped him pay.  I won't tell him he can't go, but I can throw up a barrier or two to give weight to my disapproval.  [/quote]

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