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[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]

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. 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]

You must not know DC.  Many families don't have cars, and their kids metro or bus everywhere.  Where we live, it's quicker to metro to the zoo than to a Petsmart.[/quote]

I think we're just going in circles now and enhancing the aforementioned vibe. Let me be clear - My point was not that taking metro to the zoo is difficult. I still metro to the zoo rather than pay for parking! My point was that the wow factor for Petsmart was the same as the wow factor for the zoo *at that age*. I'm talking about taking 3 year olds to a place with limited bathroom options and at a ratio that exceeds the number of hands one person has.

Is it so hard to imagine a situation where there are 5 minutes until the next train (with the following one arriving 30 minutes later due to track work), and one of the kids says "I have to poop NOW," and some poor teacher has to haul three kids to the metro bathroom (if there is even one in service) and take care of business before the train arrives or risk delaying the whole group 30 more minutes?

I'm not saying metro is bad! I'm not saying it's not safe! I'm not saying this can't be done! I'm saying that at three years old, it seems like more effort than it's worth at a 3:1 ratio. But since it's already planned, I'm encouraging OP to be a part of it so she can enjoy the trip with her child while also helping the teachers. [/quote]

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