Reply to Preschool field trip on metro

Forum Index » Preschool and Daycare Discussion

Reply to "Preschool field trip on metro"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]some weird vibe here like "Hipster city parents and their adventurous, well-behaved children vs old lame fat suburbanites and their sad unadventurous children".

personally for toddlers and 3 year olds, this kind of trip is not worth the stress. For 4-5 year olds, I could see a carefully planned outing with a lot of parent volunteers as worthwhile. As pp mentioned, the PITA factor alone of dealing with a class of recently potty trained kids with no available bathroom would make it a non started for me. [/quote]

[b]This! I'm the typical city person who moved to the burbs when I had kids, and I loved living in the city and being able to walk or metro everywhere. But IMO there are a LOT of things you can do for 3 yo enrichment that are less complicated than a metro trip to a museum or something.[/b] It's not that I think they wouldn't be safe, I just agree with PP that the PITA:Reward ratio is too high. When my son was 3, he was just as happy at Petsmart as he was at the zoo (he liked being able to see the animals up close). At 5 yo, obviously the zoo wins out.

To OP, I wouldn't be happy with a 3:1 ratio with unfit teachers. Definitely volunteer to go - you'll feel better about it, you'll help out the preggo teacher - win/win![/quote]

I don't think it's being a typical city person to move out to the burbs when you have kids (from someone who is a city person and stayed in the city once I had kids, along with many many other families in DC).  Perhaps if you hadn't moved to the suburbs, you wouldn't find a metro trip to the museum complicated.  For me, it was one of the easiest things to do with my kids.[/quote]

It's easy WITH YOUR 2 KIDS.  That's not the same  as a whole class of 3 year olds.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics