How old is old enough for two girls to wait in line for a roller coaster at a theme park by... - Page 2

[mamalisa]

I'd let a 6 and 8 year old do it. My 8 year old ds waited in line this summer alone at some rides at Great America. They were things I wasn't going on, but that he was comfortable riding. I sat near the exit and just hung out until he was done. It's a fairly simple thing, in one way, out another, no possible confusion.

[Momily]

I feel like I spend the whole summer waiting outside amusement park rides. We have season passes to a Six Flags, and I get super motion sick, so I bring a backpack full of work and get a ton done sitting outside the rides. I think we started at the end of the summer DS and the friend we always go with were 8, but I'm not sure I would have sent him with a 6 year old at that age (definitely the kinds of rides where you can see the whole queue but maybe or maybe not the kinds where you can't see them for 1/2 an hour at a time, not sure since it didn't come up). So, I voted 7 and 9, but maybe 6 and 8.

Having said that our park has a bunch of 48 inch rides that are still pretty much kid rides. At 8 that's all he could have ridden, so I think I would have felt much more comfortable with that, since there would have been lots of moms in the queue and workers used to kids. The 52 inch and 54 inch rides have a much older populations, for those I would have waited until 9, which we had to anyway due to height.

[sapphire_chan]

With the whole line and ride being all of 30 minutes and you could see the kids for some portion of their time in line and the line is mostly families, a lot of the concerns addressed above are already taken care of.

And a kid who can take the city bus alone is going to be able to get themselves and a non-bolting kid through the line.

And a parent with a bolting kid wouldn't even consider the idea.

[plunky]

I voted six and eight, but given the story, the ages are almost irrelevant. If the older one takes the city bus by herself, that's way more responsibility than standing in a line.

[chel]

I know my 9yr dd wouldn't have a problem as long as she had a friend along.
She could wait in a 15min line by herself this summer at age 8

kinda like waiting in a school lunch line.

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I pushed the wrong one.

But, somewhere between 7-10 wouldn't make me uncomfortable at all. Maybe even younger depending on the kids.