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.

Don’t be the parent who stops their child going .

She’ll be fine, safe and have a great time.

The only person to spoil her fun might be you so let her get on with it.

I hope your paranoia doesn't rub off onto your child. Let them go and have a brilliant time.

Seriously...What do you think will happen?? Just let her go

Very unreasonable

Utterly utterly ridiculous

Heaven preserve us! What on earth will you be like when your kid wants to go off on a gap year trekking in Peru or travelling around Vietnam?!! YABU unless you are about to tell us that the person driving the minibus is a drunkard!!

Sorry - don’t mean to be flippant but I really think it will be absolutely fine. Do you suffer from anxiety?

Well the parent helpers have already been chosen. There are 20 of them who will primarily be looking out for their own children in my opinion and I doubt will be dbs checked either.
They don't have to be dbs checked for one outing.
On every school trip I've been on, and I've been on many (I'm a teacher), the parent helpers have been great.
Seriously, your child will be fine. It's you stop her going you'll be doing her a massive disservice.

Paranoia??? Anxiety??? 😱😱😱

Ladies....get a grip 😂 Calm yourselves

Your just a normal person. Does that mean you can't be trusted to look after children?

Seriously? So your child will never get to go on trips then if that's how you think

There's 3 kids to an adult, butt they aren't all trained staff are they...which would be better on a trip like this. They are just regular people.

Is this for real? Would you close the rest of the school every time a class has a trip, so all the teachers can go?

Quite often on a school trip parent helpers aren't actually put with their own children anyway, I've done school trips and had 6 kids at a time to look after, none of them mine.
You do sound very anxious and your dc is still only Reception, you've got another 11 years of schooling to get through yet!

I regularly go out with 3 children - my own - alone - no one has been eaten by tigers yet

It's a school trip - YABU

My 6yo goes to a special school where all the children have special needs and even they all go in school trips, walk to the shops, library, go and see Father Christmas etc etc and I guarantee when you have a herd of autistic runners it's a million times harder. I still let him go because he's learning. Yes I get nervous sometimes but kids need experiences!

I went on the reception trip to the farm, all the adults were DBS checked for the trip. I had 4 in my group including my own. I never lost sight of any of them and made sure they were all happy. I made sure they had everything (including hats) and at lunch that they were all ok.

I have been on many others and have always done that.

Pfb much!?!?

How bizarre

As others have said, parent helpers will be more worried about other children than their own. Also, they may have been asked specifically because they are known to be useful parents. I only ask certain parents to come on my trips because I know which ones will be helpful.

She will be fine but if you are worried then speak to the class teacher about your concerns.

Yabu and quite mean.

You really want your daughter to be sitting in school while all her friends have a lovely day out? Could you really do that to her? And what are you going to do for the next school trip, and the next, and the next? Are you never going to allow her to go? Because if you want to destroy her relationship with you, that would be the way to do it .

Well said @ladygracie

Get a grip OP.

So are you never going to let her go on a school trip ever ? you have what 12 years of trips and maybe residentials that she might miss out on of course it is up to you if she goes or not but yabu.

Oh come on now everyone, haven't you read who's going on the trip?

REGULAR PEOPLE!!! (Looks around nervously at the other people in the world)

Sounds like you're sulking because you didn't get picked as a helper and hence stopping your daughter go. Can't imagine why they didn't pick you with your fab attitude