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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m surprised by the responses. 
Maybe I’m the only one who parents like this, but if all along the plan and expectation was that my kids get up at 10 and we go somewhere as a family, that’s what we would have done. I would not have given an option to sleep in or not attend. [/quote]

If the op had said “both kids were excited about this excursion and then older dd backed out” then I would be with you. But my sense was that only younger DD wanted to go and older dd was being dragged along for the benefit of younger dd. Like a pp said, this wasn’t a play or a concert—yes that’s a place to make a sibling attend to “support” their sibling, but an excursion?  Not the same. My kids are 17 and 15 and they definitely don’t spend as much time together as they used to and yes they’ve changed their preferences. It’s ok to change, it’s GOOD for them to change. Your teen isn’t the same as when they were 9 years old—this is how growth and maturity work, and no it doesn’t immediately come with automatic compliance. [/quote]

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