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You are at a large theme park for the day - say, Busch Gardens or one of the Disney parks. You have, in your benevolence, brought several kids with you. They are all under 18, but some of them are old enough (15-16?) that you feel comfortable allowing them to wander the park on their own, equipped with a cell phone and directions to meet you at certain locations at certain times to check in. Partway through the day, one of the free-range booj!kids calls you to inform you that they are currently waiting at the security office because their behavior has resulted in their expulsion from the park.
What do you do? Collect all the booj!kids and take everyone home early because one special snowflake can't keep from trying to pull the feathers out of the crested crane? Make Snowflake sit in the car while everyone else finishes up the roller coasters and watches the parade? Something else, dependent on Snowflake's age? On whether Snowflake is your kid, a niece/nephew/other relative, or is just a friend of one of your kids?
Question prompted by the abysmal behavior of more than a few teenagers in Orlando theme parks this past week, especially the one at Busch Gardens who was first trying to provoke flamingos into fighting by throwing food into their pen, then attempting to chase the crested crane so he could try to pull its crest out. (I saw security giving him a damn stern talking-to, but I don't know what happened after that, and I wondered if there is a solution for the supervising adult in such a case that isn't a losing case for everyone in their traveling group.)
What do you do? Collect all the booj!kids and take everyone home early because one special snowflake can't keep from trying to pull the feathers out of the crested crane? Make Snowflake sit in the car while everyone else finishes up the roller coasters and watches the parade? Something else, dependent on Snowflake's age? On whether Snowflake is your kid, a niece/nephew/other relative, or is just a friend of one of your kids?
Question prompted by the abysmal behavior of more than a few teenagers in Orlando theme parks this past week, especially the one at Busch Gardens who was first trying to provoke flamingos into fighting by throwing food into their pen, then attempting to chase the crested crane so he could try to pull its crest out. (I saw security giving him a damn stern talking-to, but I don't know what happened after that, and I wondered if there is a solution for the supervising adult in such a case that isn't a losing case for everyone in their traveling group.)