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Out of the things previously mentioned throughout this thread, the only places that really bother me are Sea World, circuses w animals, and football!

Everything else Ds has already done or we plan on doing in the future! As said previously, I am hesitant on sleepovers but well cross that bridge when we get there! I'm mostly a try everything once person!

pets! I can see us caving at some point, but I prefer not to get one :). we have plenty of friends and fam with pets they can love on!

@lawbee11: I've been trying to think of this too! All I can think is the fear of the parents being crazy gun owners, lol?

Circuses, and cartoons every weekend. The ones I see my nephews watch make my eyes and brain hurt

@MoonMoon: @lawbee11: My parents were immigrants, and in Central America sleepovers must not be common. So I couldn't sleep out anywhere. My parents said I had my own room and bed, why do I need to sleep out? I used to hate it. But now as a mom, I get it a bit more. I'm not super excited at the thought of my boys sleeping out. We'll see when the time comes. I would definitely have to know the parents well. There are just too many bad people out there in the world!

@lawbee11: cultural and safety! Depends on the friend / my relationship w their parents though!

@FaithFertility: Seriously, what's up with that?!?!? Aren't boys supposed to like camping?

DH is very opposed to circus performances, I am on the fence but I am toward opposing it, so we are basically forbidding it completely. We are also not crazy about the children's museum we have in our town so we do not like taking him there. It is actually a lot of fun for him, but I personally disliked the way the museum is run. The admissions is very expensive. Parking is offsite and isn't organized better, and it could be easily an additional $10-15 even if you were a member to the museum. They don't have restaurants on site and there is no nice restaurants around, so it became such a chore to try to rip them off of the museum to go to eat, when there is nothing good around. Just the entire experience is fun for the kid but very miserable for the adult. Camping too. I guess it's because both of us grew up in a city where we just didn't have that culture of camping, and/ or parents didn't take us camping, so we don't quite know what to do with it hahahaha.

I racked my brain all weekend trying to come up with something I'm vehemently opposed to letting my kid do... I finally figured it out.... Traveling Carnivals! Weird shady people, Rides that could fall apart at any moment, gross food, expensive games that yield cheap prizes..... Yet I have no issue with the ride piers on the boardwalks at the shore.

We can't have cats (DH is really allergic), but anything and everything I *won't* do I've learned, I have to keep an open mind. And, just because I don't like something doesn't mean I'm going to deny my kids it, assuming they like it or want it.