to let 14 year old dd go to Bath for the day (2 hrs away on train)?

[GetOrfMoiLand]

DD has gone with a friend (also 14) to Bath on the train from Gloucester, changing at Swindon. She is due back at half 7.

Just spoke to dd and told him what dd is doing today - he has just said I am mad for letting her go, she is not old enough to change trains at a big station (Swindon is NOT a big station) and what would I think if something 'happened' to her.

I am slightly mystified - she has gone on the train to Exeter on her own before. When I said this to him he said that that didn't involve changing trains, and that was for a serious reason (to go and see her gran) NOT for something frivolous.

He is just really sniffy about it - god knows why, he is normally so laid back he is horizontal.

I definately saw two young girls hanging around outside Jack Wills at lunctime. They were smoking. And one was talking. To a boy

Of course YANBU, GOML. She'll have a lovely time. :)

Are they standing on the station scrubbing off their make up and unrolling the waist bands of their skirts {grin]

.. and necking packets of Polos and dowsing themselves with Impulse, shoshe?

DD1 goes off to reading with her mates (all 14) although the first time they did get on the wrong train at the change over and ended up in oxford.

GOML - Swindon 'BIG' station - doesn't he get out much ??? He must be having a bad day?!?! If she's not able to do this at 14, he really needs to think about the quality of his parenting

They'll have a blast it's Bath not downtown LA!

EG - I'd much rather they went to Oxford than Reading. Reading isn't what it used to be :(

GOML

She's home right????

I am sure I was younger than this when I went to London for the day on my own involving changing trains at Twyford which sounds to be a similar size to Swindon. I was fine.

Your dh is being over protective. She will I am sure be fine. And if she is not it is likely to be a coincidence - by that I mean something that could have happened anywhere.

Hope she got back OK and your dh has calmed down!