<p>yes, field trips are a great way to get off campus.</p>
<p>My son has gone on several chorus events and has LOVED the time away. </p>
<p>Maybe it is just me and my family, and maybe we have catered to our children tooo much, but to hear Royce joyfully talking about the privledge of his first soda one Friday night and the privledge of ordering takeout makes him SO excited. So Just the simple things make these kids so happy. </p>
<p>They have chosen this path of self-denial, they have learned to enjoy the simple things.</p>
<p>This more than anything makes me proud of my son. We really tried to not over spend on material things, and at times I felt we may have failed, but now, I think we did a pretty good job of parenting, as he has learned to appreciated the simple things.</p>
<p>Also, to hear him talk about his time management. He has scheduled how is gonna study for his first finals week. In HS he would complain about all this studying/homework he had to do, and come out of his room 20 min later, with his work complete. We would tell him how he needed to do more… but he was a slacker. so to see him do more… and all on his own without us nagging him, makes me proud.</p>
<p>Sorry to highjack your thread on field trips, but it all just came tumbling out of my fingers.</p>