He Booked a Surprise Overseas Theme Park Trip for His Son’s Birthday—Then His Wife Questioned Pulling the Kids Out of School for a Week
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Birthdays often inspire special family plans, but celebrating gets complicated when the fun requires children to miss school.
This father sees perfect weather and an empty amusement park as the ingredients for an unforgettable day.
His wife sees two young children in their first school week and no reason to disrupt their new routines.
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AITA: Skipping school for six flags
This Friday is my birthday and i want to take my kids to Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey.
Its about a two hour drive from where we live.
I have a 5 year old daughter who just started kindergarten and a 3 year old son who just started preschool.
This is their first week of school.
He has a plan, but his wife isn’t on board.
My plan is to take them out for the day to do something special.
The weather is supposed to be amazing, the park is rumored to be empty this time of year which means no lines and it just feels like a perfect opportunity to make a great memory together.
Im especially excited about the safari drive thru, the water park, and doing some rollercoasters with them.
My wife is invited too its meant to be a family day but my wife thinks it’s a bad idea and doesnt want them missing school especially during the first week.
Is skipping one day of school really a big deal?
I get that school is important but we’re talking about one day out of 200 and they aren’t doing anything important yet.
To me this feels like a once-in-a-lifetime type of memory for them to say “Remember that time we went to Six Flags on Dad’s birthday and there were no lines?”
But now we’re kind of at odds about it.
So AITA for wanting to pull the kids out of school for one day to celebrate my birthday at a theme park?
A memorable family day while the park is empty and the weather perfect? It sounds nice, but is it?
Not really…in fact, the kids won’t even remember it, most people on Reddit say.
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This person says don’t do it.
This person has a better idea.
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And this person says to wait til they’re older to do something like this.
This father is not wrong for wanting a memorable birthday, but overruling his wife and disrupting the children’s first week feels unnecessary.
He could preserve the family adventure by choosing a weekend instead of turning one missed school day into a parental standoff.
Calling Six Flags a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is definitely a roller-coaster-sized exaggeration.
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