Your kid needs to learn responsibility. She should never have taken it with her without checking first. Thirteen is old enough to know this,

If the daughter wanted to take it then it’s on her.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, follow up question:
Dad should replace the bag, right? He was the responsible adult. He advised that it was fine. He was wrong. Honest mistake. But he should replace it. Am I wrong?

And what does security do with those bags? Holiday gifts for their families? Sell? Trash?

—OP

I would say yes, especially if lockers were available and he didn’t have your daughter store the bag there. Was this an expensive bag? How is your daughter?

Not an expensive bag, but much loved and frequently used.
She’s 13.

13? Dad pays 100%. I do think it’s a great lesson going forward of things to be aware of when attending events, especially never bring your favorite items. Too much opportunity to lose a favorite to theft etc. But come on, at 13 you should be able to trust the guidance of your parents. Dad needs to make it right.

I think Dad should make it right.

If you want your child to learn something then no she shouldn’t get a new one. If you want to raise an entitled spoiled child then sure go for it.

I’m not responsible for my teens belongings, they are. I tell them this all the time if they want to take something check first. If they lose something I’m not responsible for it. By 11 this is no longer my job, they need to learn life lessons like losing things now not 10 years from now when it actually contains something important.

Also, this thread is why a portable locker business would boom for venues like this. I know Nats Park has some lockers.

When I had jury duty in Alexandria, everyone took their cell phones across the street from the courthouse to a little deli for them to stash them. I think it was like $10 to leave it with them. All the guards in the courthouse were telling people where to go, too.

It blew my mind that big ol' district court in Alexandria didn't have cell phone lockers when rinky-dink Loudoun County courthouse in Leesburg has them inside.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, follow up question:
Dad should replace the bag, right? He was the responsible adult. He advised that it was fine. He was wrong. Honest mistake. But he should replace it. Am I wrong?

And what does security do with those bags? Holiday gifts for their families? Sell? Trash?

—OP

I would say yes, especially if lockers were available and he didn’t have your daughter store the bag there. Was this an expensive bag? How is your daughter?

Not an expensive bag, but much loved and frequently used.
She’s 13.

She should have just stashed it around the stadium without anything important in it.

Last show I went to there, when it ended, there had to be at least 30 women retrieving stashed "illegal" bags from around the stadium.

As for what happens to them, they go in the trash.

Your daughter is a teenager, she knows how to use a computer, she knows how to read, she wants to go to the concert, she wants to take a bag, she needs to look online.

her bag her responsibility

Anonymous wrote:Ok, follow up question:
Dad should replace the bag, right? He was the responsible adult. He advised that it was fine. He was wrong. Honest mistake. But he should replace it. Am I wrong?

And what does security do with those bags? Holiday gifts for their families? Sell? Trash?

—OP

I would say yes, especially if lockers were available and he didn’t have your daughter store the bag there. Was this an expensive bag? How is your daughter?

Anonymous wrote:Ok, follow up question:
Dad should replace the bag, right? He was the responsible adult. He advised that it was fine. He was wrong. Honest mistake. But he should replace it. Am I wrong?

And what does security do with those bags? Holiday gifts for their families? Sell? Trash?

—OP

Agree, yes, he should replace it. It was his job to check and understand the bag policy. Also, he should have figured out about the lockers (they usually tell you when your bag doesn't comply). My guess is that they did tell him about the lockers, he balked at having to pay for that on top of the cost of the tickets and any food/drinks he paid for, and instead threw the bag away. Which is idiotic because while the lockers are definitely overpriced, they are probably less expensive than the backpack.

(this is 100% something my dad would have done when I was a teenager -- dads get mad/annoyed/cheap and make dumb choices sometimes)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, follow up question:
Dad should replace the bag, right? He was the responsible adult. He advised that it was fine. He was wrong. Honest mistake. But he should replace it. Am I wrong?

And what does security do with those bags? Holiday gifts for their families? Sell? Trash?

—OP

Who wanted to go to the concert? If this was your daughters idea it’s her responsibility, if dad wanted to go then it’s his.

daughter was following the advice of an adult, her parent no less. How is that on her?

Anonymous wrote:Ok, follow up question:
Dad should replace the bag, right? He was the responsible adult. He advised that it was fine. He was wrong. Honest mistake. But he should replace it. Am I wrong?

And what does security do with those bags? Holiday gifts for their families? Sell? Trash?

—OP

No your daughter should have read the signs going in because she’s the one carrying the bag.