It makes me wonder , what makes someone join the DIS, just to quote an 18 year old thread, but not make any comment on it themselves?
It makes me wonder , what makes someone join the DIS, just to quote an 18 year old thread, but not make any comment on it themselves?
I wonder if ad blocks locks those old threads out. I don't see them
I wonder why I can't see the threads down there. WeirdI use adblocker and I can still see them
It seems sad that so many instantly think they will be partying wildly, bothering other campers, etc. Far from all teen boys are like that. In fact I would say that is the minority. Most would not be partying it up around other campers. They at least have enough sense not to do it where the law may be called. Most really do know how to behave.
Hmmm...I have a 16 year old and up until this year was a counselor at a high school, and I think I'd have a pretty hard time with it. I mean do they camp all the time and so it's something and somewhere they're super familiar with? Even if that were the case, I'm not sure I could do it. Good luck, parenting is so frustrating lol.My son and his 4 friends want to go camping this weekend. All the other parents have ok'd this. I laughed..and said NO way!
There will be NO adult supervison. The campsite is about 40 miles from home. They would eave Thursday night..and return Sunday sometime.
These kids are not bad kids..none of them have every been in any kind of trouble. But..I think..why tempt fate?
What do you all think...Am i being unfair?
Got more replies as a Zombie thread that it did 16 years ago!It popped up for me at the bottom of another thread. I never think to check dates either. Zombie threads live on!
Got more replies as a Zombie thread than it did 16 years ago!
I said no when my kids were little and Id say the same now. Both boys were camping the summer after graduation with friends with no issues. Why rush everything? We did camp with a group of families every year and let the kids be in the site next door when they were teens. That was plenty of freedom.No. It wouldn't matter to me how mature the kids were. Unless they are legally emancipated, in my book kids under 18 should always have an adult around to check in with.
I said no when my kids were little and Id say the same now. Both boys were camping the summer after graduation with friends with no issues. Why rush everything? We did camp with a group of families every year and let the kids be in the site next door when they were teens. That was plenty of freedom.
Why rush everything? I don't consider letting a 16 year old have some freedom as "rushing" anything. I'm not even sure what you mean by that? Freedom? They are 16 not 6.
They can drive a car a far more dangerous thing for a 16 year old than a couple nights camping.
Kids actually need to do these kinds of things, its only a year before many are away at college essentially on their own.
I can't believe someone (I know that wasn't you) thinks anyone under 18 should always have adult supervision. Talk about helicoptering.