to fret about DS1 at a theme park

[toysoldiers]

DS1 is 6 and has been invited to a theme park with a few friends as a birthday treat.

He will love it so I accepted the invitation before the holidays.

Now I'm fretting.

That they'll crash on the way
He'll get lost
He'll plunge to his death on the log flume

Is this one of those things I just have to get used to? Do I insist on going along? Is this a normal reaction?

Hard to say if it's normal. I would be worrying myself senseless - but my DH would say I was being ridiculous. I do think a theme park is excessive for a 6th b'day party, though.

I'd concoct some reason for my DS not to be able to go after all, on the grounds that there will be many, many other such opportunities to come, when he's older and less likely to get lost/more able to judge which rides he would enjoy. Even then, I would have to know the parents very well, and I'd have to have seen what they were like behind the wheel. I don't like people driving my DC even half a mile down the road, but I am a whole lot happier knowing that I trust the parents and if anything frightful happened, it would be unlikely to be due to their carelessness/recklessness.

shesariver your first post came across as flippant. Reading your second post, OP asked of she was BU to worry about her 6 year old DS going to a theme park without her. Not whether her later statement about thinking these things a lot was normal or not. It is perfectly normal to worry about a 6 year old going to a theme park in the care of someone else for the first time. To me that sounds like a natural worry and separate from the over thinking issue.

I don't think its a case of "getting it" I certainly don't and I live with it

It is perfectly normal to worry about a 6 year old going to a theme park in the care of someone else for the first time.

I have never worried that any of my DCs would crash on their way to a day out without me, or even die on a ride as stated by the OP. If that makes me not "perfectly normal" so be it.

I would worry too and would think about things like what if they crashed / got lost etc BUT i would still let him go.

My DS is a bit older than yours and he goes on trips rather than to parties for his friends' birthdays.....i have to say in every case i have known the parents well enough to trust and the parents have always texted with pictures and updates of the day :)

Which theme park is it? Is it one of the smaller ones eg Gullivers world / Camelot as opposed to Alton Towers?

"I have never worried that any of my DCs would crash on their way to a day out without me, or even die on a ride as stated by the OP."

What I would give to think like this, even if for a day!

He'll plunge to his death on the log flume

I am sure he won't of course you are fretting he is going to be away all day , but he will be fine and have a ball