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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still not buying the distinction between beach week and the first semester of college. You really think your kid is going to arrive on campus and suddenly know how to balance studying with partying, when he's never been on his own for 10 minutes before?

I maintain that beach week is a teachable moment. Talk about the risks, let him go, then talk about the reality. [/quote]

In one environment, the young adult has commitments to keep, and must live on a college budget.  The other, the young adult does not and, presumably, is getting heavily subsodized by the parents.  Also, while there is obviously a lot of partying at college, the point of a beach week without the 'rents is to throw down.  I'm not saying it's like comparing a night club to an orgy, but there's a similarity there.

OP, you may not be able to forbid an adult child from doing anything, but you definitely don't have to bless or finance an (illegal) booze fest.

Also, and I can't stress this enough to those who are remembering their high school/pre-college benders fondly from days of yore:  smart phones and YouTube.[/quote]

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