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Would you let your child do this?
We had a Father Daughter dance at my daughter's school last night. There were over 100 girls from grades Kindergarten through eighth grade at the dance. As it ended and the lights went up, I noticed the bunches of balloons disappearing out the door. Girls were grabbing the balloons and the weights and leaving. I was shocked. I would never let my kids grab balloons and walk out the door with them. I've been at birthday parties where the kids take the balloons, but never without being told by the parents!
Just seemed strange to me.
Re: Would you let your child do this?
if the people running the show said OK sure. What else are they going to do with the balloons at the school?
exactly what I was going to say - it's not like they can use them again.
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I think her point was that the kids had NOT been told to go ahead and grab the balloons. In that case, no, I would tell my child to put the balloon back.
*always remembering Annaleigh Lucy*
This is what I was thinking. If we hadn't been told it's OK to take the balloons, I would ask before I let K leave with it. If they didn't care, and being that there were so many girls there, it would have been fun to have a little game and one person from a table takes home a balloon. Just my .02 cents:)
I know what her point was, but she didn't say for sure whether or not she knew that the school said they could take them. She just said unless the parents said so, it wouldn't be okay...and I quoted Kelly because I agreed with her that if the school says it's okay, then it's okay.
phew, that was a mouthful!
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This! A game would have been fun. At least we should have made an announcement and told the girls to take a balloon before they left. FWIW, I was one of the moms in charge of things. I guess we never thought of it. I also never thought that we'd love $30 worth of balloon weights. Some belonged to one of the moms and some were purchased for the event and were going to be saved with the party supplies.
I think if it was a big deal, someone should have just stopped them at the door and said "We need to remove the weights before you take the balloons."
It's not a big deal that they took balloons. It just seemed strange that the dads let their daughters exit with the balloons attached to balloon weights without asking if we needed the weights. Maybe I'm the only one who keeps the weights. I've had the same 10 for years. At least they left the centerpieces and other decorations. I guess I'm just in the minority here. No biggie. I was just surprised that they took them without asking. This morning they have $1 balloon weights and deflated latex balloons!
I was one of the organizers. I probably spent 10-15 hours on the decorations and planning. No...it never crossed my mind that the kids would take the balloon weights. Not a big deal...just seemed strange for kids to take something...anything without asking permission.
There were six other moms there and they were pretty much like you ladies. No big deal, the dads are clueless, one less thing to clean up. I was actually more worried that one of the moms was going to be annoyed that her balloons weights were gone, not because it was a big deal, but because we missed a detail in the preparation and execution of the event.
I'll just live in the minority here. No biggie. I hate balloons anyway!
That's all I was thinking when I posted originally. It was a beautiful night and Eliza was just so happy to be there with her daddy!
I know! Maybe it will get a star. My posts usually fizzle and die!
They were pretty balloons
I can't bold, but...DADS...enough said, IMO! I won't speak for all men, but I know if my husband were there he wouldn't have even thought twice to ask if the kids could take a balloon home.
This......
I would also think most Dads have no idea about the weights!
It looked so pretty, I'm sure the girls LOVED it.
I would remember this next year and make an announcement at the beginning...you can take balloons but leave the weights, lol.