| My brother went on a week-long trip with a few of his friends to the beach for senior week. He still says it was one of his favorite memories of high school since it was the last hurrah for him and his friends before they went their separate ways to college. My dad and I stayed elsewhere in the town (I'm a few years younger) in case anything bad happened and they needed help. The only problem that happened during their week was when my brother fell asleep under the sun for eight hours and got sunburnt pretty badly, so we dropped by to help with first aid a little.
If you can't trust your kid to make good decisions for a week at the beginning of the summer, why do you think they'll be any more responsible two months later when they leave for college? Wouldn't senior week be a great way to help teach them about responsibility? Make them pay for their own vacation. They'll learn quickly how to budget money if they want to do fun things every night, they'll learn about saving, and they'll learn quite a bit about living with a roommate before they actually have to live with one for a whole year. |