Originally Posted by
Bostondevil
There were 2 chaperones per 8 kids. We had one in our group that kept wandering off. The other parent would take the 7 while I'd go make sure we hadn't lost number 8. After a day and half of this behavior, I took him aside and said, "Look, I'm not your mother, you're 14, and your behavior is beyond annoying. This is the last time I will make everybody else wait while I go find you. Keep up with the group or not, but it's on you from now on, because, again, I'm not your mother and at this point, I do not care if we lose you." And then I stopped making sure he was with the group when we moved on. He did make it back to Massachusetts so I assume he kept up.