I guess this is kinda a vent too! We went to Valleyfair amusement park this weekend. I was with my 6,7,&8 yr old while they were climbing the rocks and my 3 yr old was getting antsy. So my 13 yo dd said she would take him on the balloon ride. Well, the sign said under 48 inches had to be accompanied by a responsible person (no ages were stated). Well they waited in line for 20 minutes and when they got up there they were told that she could not take him!!!! Well, I consider her responsible! She babysits. Then I had to stand in line with him another 20 minutes to ride the ride!!! Now my dd has not yet developed and definitely does not look older that she is, but they never asked her age or anything. Alot of her friends look alot older than they are. Would they have been allowed to take my ds on the ride? What do you guys think about the whole situation?

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While I think that they worded the rule in a misleading/unclear way, I think that I can see what they meant.

I know that you know your daughter is a responsible person for her age. But you have to remember that you KNOW her. These people with the balloon ride do not know whether she is really responsible or not. Further, they probably were referring to responsible in the sense that whomever took the little tike up in the balloon needed to be responsible FOR the little guy. It all boils down to law suits these days, and if (God forbid) your daughter had taken him up and something terrible had happened, you could come back on them and say that she is only a kid and they shouldn't have LET her go up there with him. You are responsible for him...not her....yadda, yadda, yadda. See...it is all semantics. You know that she is a responsible kid, but they don't know that she is responsible FOR her little brother.

That is how I take it anyway. HTH

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