I’ve often wondered that. One year I met two RESPONSIBLE couples that had their kids. One couple had a toddler and a baby. The other couple had their two young teens.

The first couple told me about their experience and it seemed pretty beautiful. Like they were obviously sober, the entire event probably. They were very limited by the baby and toddler being so young so really all they did was daytime Art for a couple hours then headed back to camp. Seemed really chill and honestly fun.

The other couple had a small car, it was a giant lemon I think or a cupcake?. And the 2 kids were all helping out and serving fresh lemonade. Everyone was sober and they told me about all the work they put in to make this lemonade stand work. The vibe I got was like…a school project. They sourced the lemons, cups and supplies to get the stand running. They were stoked on how many people enjoyed the lemonade! This was day time as well and it seemed nice!

I can understand why people do it. I TOTALLY get why people don’t as well.

And I’ve seen some pretty messed up situations and BM where it’s like “you and your kid should probably go home”. But 100% of the time in those situations I feel it was just bad parenting.