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Originally Posted by )O(Meeshi)O(
In my opinion, the festival scene has been changing a lot (at least in the NE) in the past few years, and for the worse. There are very few festivals that I feel comfortable taking our girls to these days. Too many teens, too many different drugs, shady behaviour...
I *loved* the festy scene when I was 20 something and single without kids, but I have seen and heard of too many scary situations going on as of late. I wouldn't feel comfortable just going from fest to fest anymore.
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I agreewith Meeshi. I took my DS to the first 2 bonnaroo festivals and they were fine. It was pretty child friendly and a lot of the hard stuff happened during the night (or out of plain view if it was during the day) so we didn't witness a lot of bad stuff. I'd be ok with taking my kids to smaller local festivals but I wouldn't be ok with taking them to most of the big national festivals. Too many hard drugs have come into the scene and even 6 years ago, when I was doing Phish and Furthur Fest tours, there was lots of stuff I wouldn't want to expose my children to.
I was very, very close to taking Skylar on Dead tour in 2003 and the day we were supposed to leave, our plans got changed. I'm glad we nevre went because I was a single mom and I know it wouldn't have been a good thing for him.
I think it would be awesome to travel around with my kids and let them see the country though.
If you're comfortable with taking him and having him heavy into the scene, then go and have fun. It will be quite an experience for the both of you
