New Year’s Eve with kids

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What do you do, if anything?
Usually asleep by midnight these days but Dd, 5 is desperate to see fireworks (has never seen them before)
Our beach is 10 minutes drive away and they do a huge concert and fireworks at midnight. She goes to bed 7/7.30, usually asleep by 8, so I’m not sure how this would work? Would you put her to bed normal time then gently wake and take her 11.30
ish? Or not bother until she’s older? I’m also wondering if she’d go back to sleep after and how she’d be the next day. We also have a dog who’s not keen on fireworks so am a bit reluctant to leave her (the actual fireworks are no more than 10 minutes)
It seems a lot of hassle, but I’m sure she’d love fireworks on the beach, would you do it, do you do anything?

It would be lovely for her to see something like that, would she actually enjoy it if she'd been asleep for hours already though? Mine would be fuming to be dragged out of bed at that time unless it was for something amazing 😂

There will be plenty of time when she's older, don't feel pressured to do all of the stuff. I often feel like I'd like to do this sort of stuff but my youngest is 2 and it's just not possible to enjoyable with her. If you have older dc maybe your dh could take them to enjoy it?

For mine I get them to nap in the afternoon if they want to stay up till midnight for new years. But I wouldn't do the beach trip because you've no idea how she will react to fireworks if its her first time. At least 2 of mine were terrified and DD didn't get upset for the first time this bonfire night and she's 7.

@Bentoforthehorde Really? Hadn’t even thought she might be scared really 🥹Perhaps it would be better to wait a couple of years then ?
Dont think I could get her to nap in the afternoon, she dropped day naps at 3 and is too full of energy to nap in the day now

Find last years ones on the internet and show them at 8, show her the real ones in a year or two.

Wouldn’t bother.

@marychristmas44 😂I would be too, she said she wants to wake up and go, but I don’t know in reality!