It was a lovely day yesterday, we took the dogs to the local outdoors center for a good few hours and had a really nice time, the kids played on all the equipment and climbed the rocks, the dogs had a run off lead in a few of the secure areas there. We decided if today was as nice, we'd go for a picnic and spend the day at the beach.
It's cloudy today. It's still nice but chillier than yesterday with not much sun.
I've told dd1 that we are not going, it's not sunny enough to spend the entire afternoon on the beach or sit and have a picnic there because it is always colder at the beach, than where we live, so will be quite chilly to be sitting about all afternoon on the sand.
She is now crying and saying I promised we'd go (I said we'd go if it was hot like yesterday) and I've broken my promise. She was looking forward to it all morning and has even packed her cosy because I said she could swim in the sea.
I've told her we will take a walk along the seafront, if she wants, but that it will be too cold to sit and have a picnic and swim in the sea. She is now in her room crying 
AIBU? I feel bad for telling her we'd go and then cancelling but I really don't think it will be very comfortable to sit on the beach all afternoon.
AIBU?
To NOT go for a pinic on the beach?
D0oinMeCleanin · 09/06/2013 12:07
Actually I'd probably go. I'd take a jumper and a book. The weather will break tomorrow and goodness only knows when you'll get another chance, and on a selfish note, I'd find it easier to go to the beach than occupy an unhappy child at home. You can argue that the terms of your "promise" haven't been met (ie. the weather isn't as hot as yesterday) but your DD won't even notice a degree or two difference and she will feel that you have let her down.Go on, OP. Just do it 
(and next time don't make promises in advance, I do it all the time and then wish I hadn't comeup with that particular bright idea!)
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She's 10 so could be raging hormones. She cries at the drop of a hat lately
It will be boring just going for a walk along the beach, she says. There will be nothing to do. I'm not entirely sure what there would be to do if we sat there all afternoon, that won't be there if we just go for a walk 
Right, new plan is that we go for a walk along the sea front. Get some chips and then go to the park over there for an hour or so. She is satisfied with this.
Her plan, apparently, involved getting one of her Grandad's big dingies and rowing from the beach to where the seals breed to see the baby seals, because that would be completely safe, wouldn't it? 
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