03-06-2017, 11:49 AM
Last Friday I took my 10-year-old daughter to a "Father Daughter" dance at her school. It was a great experience. Mostly it was the fathers setting around watching the girls run/play/dance with each other, but still a lot of fun.
Toward the end of the dance my daughter and a couple of her friends took one of the helium balloons being used for decoration and inhaled the gas from it. They thought it was funny the way it effected their voices. But then they started running around getting more and more balloons. It was still cute to hear them chattering away in "chipmunk" voices, but due to the number of balloons they were huffing it started to get a little weird. I don't think they were taking enough to hurt them in any way because they were still getting plenty of oxygen, but they were starting too look like little drug fiends.
So I didn't know exactly what to do. I did not want to ruin their fun. I did not want to accuse them of being drug heads when they were just playing around. But it was just one of those situations where I felt a little uncomfortable with what they were doing. And since my daughter was the only one there with one side of her head shaved I felt like the other parents may have already been judging her actions a bit differently than the rest of the crowd.
What would you guys have done.
Toward the end of the dance my daughter and a couple of her friends took one of the helium balloons being used for decoration and inhaled the gas from it. They thought it was funny the way it effected their voices. But then they started running around getting more and more balloons. It was still cute to hear them chattering away in "chipmunk" voices, but due to the number of balloons they were huffing it started to get a little weird. I don't think they were taking enough to hurt them in any way because they were still getting plenty of oxygen, but they were starting too look like little drug fiends.
So I didn't know exactly what to do. I did not want to ruin their fun. I did not want to accuse them of being drug heads when they were just playing around. But it was just one of those situations where I felt a little uncomfortable with what they were doing. And since my daughter was the only one there with one side of her head shaved I felt like the other parents may have already been judging her actions a bit differently than the rest of the crowd.
What would you guys have done.
