Do you agree with me or parent and child?

i agree with you

eazybee

If it is a youth organisation you are not compelled to take her on any future trips.
It is most unpleasant for other passengers if someone has vomited: the smell lingers and can make others feel ill, not to mention the damage caused to upholstery and carpet in the vehicle.

Well said!!

No meds, no trip! I actually think that parents who allow their 9 year old children to make their own decisions about absolutely everything and are deluded! Let them make decisions about what to wear, what to eat or how to wear their hair, but not about big important things like travel sickness pills when the child is clearly very travel sick!

I think perfumes smell just as good or bad nowadays as they always did. It’s the combination of two smells competing with each other that sets me off. The last thing I’d do with vomit is try to cover up the smell with something scented, especially in a confined space. Last time I dealt with vomit on a coach (two hours into a 12 hour journey) I had to sit away from where it had happened as the girl’s friends sprayed some perfume. I am not good with smells in confined spaces - I even had to move away from some girls in class last week as they’d sprayed deodorant.

Have you smell some of the perfumes people wear today they stink. There were no aerosols to disguise and neutralise smells in those days I am 68.

Nannee49

The perfume smell mingled with vomit smell would have made me vomit!

When I was a child and even could happen in my early 20's I got bus and car sick. There wasn't tablets when a child. My mom took lot of plastic bags with us on the bus . And I sat with open one ready incase I was sick. If I was mom had perfume with her so to cover the smell of vomit 🤢 and not upset other passengers. Dad and my husband had plastic bags in the glove box. But at least could stop the car when I felt sick.
On school trips I sat at the front of the coach with plastic bags and perfume. If it was a long trip I didn't go .

On car ferries when we had children I always took sea sickness tablets.

If the child won't take anti sickness tablets then she doesn't go. I would have thought the parents of the children she was sick on would insist on her doing so or she couldn't go. I know if it happened when my children where at school I would have done that.

Getty needs to sit at the front of the coach with a bucket and her Mum in future if her choice is not to take medication. Sharing bodily fluids with others in this day and age is not acceptable. So right at the front with a bucket and her Mum.

Agree with all the posts but am I being too cynical in warning be prepared for local press to be contacted and a pic of Gerty and Gerty's mum published with that peculiar mix of outrage, thwarted entitlement, bewilderment and, somehow, sadness at their plight.

As a person who has always suffered with motion sickness and vomited many times as a child when Kwells weren't available, I can't imagine ever making a choice NOT to take a tablet that would prevent the sickness. It is a truly awful feeling when your head's spinning and stomach churning and you know you really are going to be sick and make a mess of your face and possibly clothes - the perspiration rolls off your body and then you go cold enough to shiver. Gerty must be a very unusual child to want to put herself through that and that's something that should be discussed in school and with the parent since her choice to be sick may be a need for attention. It may also be that the medication makes her drowsy and she gets teased by other children if she falls asleep.
I'm with NotSpaghetti in expecting her mother to take her - after all she should be the expert in dealing with her when she refuses to take the meds. The person in charge and the other children aren't experts and shouldn't be expected to manage this situation.

Another vote for no meds, no trip. This impacts on the other children so there’s no question about her not travelling with them if she hasn’t had the meds. If practical, on the next occasion, as a last resort, her mother or father could transport her independently if they wanted.

Just get mum to drive her child to the venue and either wait to do the return journey or
drop and return to pick up at a set time you insist on!!
See how she likes the child’s choices!!
Maybe she will insist said child takes the tablet. 🙄🙄
Disgraceful Parenting as far as I’m concerned.
I will tell her if you won’t!

It's not depriving Gertie of choice to say, take the tablet or don't come with us. That's a choice & that's the choice she should be making. (not to take or not take & be got onto the bus by deceit (not telling organiser till it's too late) either way.

Why do mothers think a child knows best. The mother is thd adult she knows what the outcome will be so she needs to explain to the child that it is unpleasant for others and preventable, so she will jolly well take the meds, or not go! End of! Parents need to show some authority not all children to make wrong choices

It sounds like Gerty enjoyed being sick and inconveniencing everyone.

What a strange child.

I would have had words with the mother.

I feel really sorry for the kid in front that Gerty chucked up over! Did anyone take her feelings and upset into account? I'd be furious if I were their parent.

I was a child who was car sick. It was the most wretched thing. I can't imagine any child choosing it. So this story sounds a bit fishy to me. I am not sure if it is not designed to provoke outrage at exaggerated aspects of modern parenting.
If it is true, Gerty has probably got problems that go beyond being car sick.

tanith

Insist ‘Gertys’ Mum goes too so she can clean up the inevitable mess.

The perfect answer and solution.

Have a 15 year old GS who suffers from travel sickness. I did too when young and still can't go on a boat. Fir GS I always had ice cream tubs with lids in the car for him to use. Would the mother concerned allow the child to make a choice on whether to take diabetic medication on day of the trip. I guess No. So what's the difference with antisickness medicine, I'd say no medicine, no trip. Probably spoiled it for other kids and of course the mess in the bus woukd need to be explained and I bet it wasn't the mother who did that.

I can’t think of a single child or even adult, who would be able to giggle if travel sick.

Of course Gerty must be allowed to choose - she takes the tablet or she doesn’t go! Simples.

As a previous poster said, I’d want to actually see the child take her meds.

Gerty does not go on any future trips unless Mum signs something to say she has had medication AND mum accompanies her throughout trip. Let mum spend the day covered in child vomit. Those poor nearby children, if I was their parent I would be furious about this.
Perhaps little Gerty might decide to take meds if the alternative is having Mum with her on school trip?!

As a retired teacher 'Gerty' would not be allowed to go on trip! No discussion. Take your meds or no trip. What a ridiculous entutled parent.