Our family has been planning a trip to Bahamas (not booked yet) for my son’s high school graduation. Last night he comes to me very excited because some of the guys have asked him to go along to a local beach for “Senior Week”. He told me that no one asked him to go along anywhere, just these guys. I know the parents of these kids and they are pretty good kids but I know that they drink alcohol on occasion. (There are 4 boys asking him to go). He doesn’t hang out with these kids other than talk to them in school.

His one friend that he does hang out with hasn’t been invited anywhere either. Now comes the kicker, another friend, whom my son considers his best friend, is headed to FL with 3 girls and another boy and staying at his grandmother’s house with these kids. The FL gang didn’t invite my son either. I got offended by this because we are (I thought) good friends with this boy’s parents. We go to dinner, watch football, hang at each others’ houses on occasion, stuff like that. There have been other times that this same boy left my son out of things and I know they don’t have to do everything together but it seemed like this end of the year trip is a big deal. I would think going with your best friends would be the thing to do.

So what gives? I don’t want my son going to the local beach for “Senior Week” because I know how it gets and that’s not what I want for him.

Do I ask the FL boys’ mom why my son wasn’t invited? Do I send him to the local beach anyway? Do I make his life miserable and make him go with us? We probably won’t go if he doesn’t go along. We told him to bring a friend and he could have his own room, and he didn’t have to stick to us all the time.