To not want her to go?

[yoshismother]

My 5 year old has been invited on a school trip in the last week of term to a zoo over an hour away. Am I being unreasonable not to want her to go this far to a crowded place (in schools week?

I'd rather she stayed behind and maybe did some transition stuff for year 1.

Why would you not want her to go? All her friends will be going and she'll be at school on her own 😢

My dd went to Marwell in reception (she's in yr1 now) and she loved it! They get to see loads you don't if you go as joe public and she had so much fun!

It's making me feel quite sad to think of her little face as all her friends skip off to the zoo and she doesn't. 😢

I remember my first ever school trip to the zoo aged 5 like it was yesterday. A gorilla was sick and date it. You can guess what every single of my classmates were talking about the day after!

Yabu

It sounds like a completely normal school trip. What is it that you are worried about?

They're not going to plan extra "transition stuff" for one child whose mum won't let her go on the trip! All of her teachers will be on the trip, and other teachers will have their own classes. She'd be bored stupid if she stayed.

Unless there is a big chunk of story you are missing then yabu. School trips are often a highlight of the year for children let them go and have fun

Extremely unreasonable and quite mean to your dd

I went on a school trip as parent helper a couple of weeks ago. It was 4 kids to one adult and they were never out of our sight.

Relax!

Normal to be worried if it's her first school trip. Not normal to stop her going.

Here comes the drip feed.......

Poor kid! Let her go

That's you told 😆

Yes YBU
What is the problem about going to the zoo?

just thinking... they might need some parent helpers. Could you volunteer to help?

Aw your poor DD, imagine how upset she’ll be when all her friends all go to the zoo and she doesn’t get to go. Do you have bad anxiety and would you feel any better if you offered to go as a helper?

It won't be that crowded if it's before half term.
I think it's awful you are considering not sending her, why would you want your child to be excluded from something when all her friends are going?
If you were asking AIBU because of cost I could have almost understood it but I don't think your reason is a reason.
Schools have plenty of helpers and it will be an amazing day out for her.

YABU leave the poor kid go!

Hi when my dd was in nursery they had a trip to a zoo...there was 1 adult per 3 children.
We did a trip to a farm and was 1 adult per 5 children but that was a closed farm only catering for school groups and only 2 schools at a time.
If you are worried then speak to the teacher. They may allow you to be a parent helper. They will have done a risk assessment and have so many hoops to jump through to show they have thought about the safety of he children while on the trip.

I think you need to seek medical attention with a view to getting your extreme anxiety resolved OP.

Could you give more detail on why you don’t want her to go? On current information YABVU.

I don’t understand what the problem is . The travel ? Being in unfamiliar surroundings? Animals ? Really trying to get my head around what it is the OP is concerned about - it sounds like great fun and exactly what a5 yr old would enjoy.

I feel like this too!! I just got the letter about my 3rd (who is 5) now going on a 1 hr drive for a day school trip in June.

All I can say is I felt the same with my first 2 DCs (prob more so) but I was glad they went. You will be glad when they are home after the trip and they had a good time.

I don't understand - you haven't explained why you don't want her to go.

YABU. We can't wrap them in cotton wool

Why don't you want her to go?

What do you think is going to happen?

How do you think she will feel being the only one missing out?