Festival fever brings fears for parents

June 12, 2012 - PRLog -- High summer marks a time of high anxiety for parents of some teenagers.

The pestering often starts straight after Christmas: “Mum, everyone else is going to a festival, I have to be there!”

If you give in and agree to your child attending one of the many summer music festivals held all over Britain then that’s when the months of worrying really starts.

You can pack the wellies, repeat the advice about drugs and excessive alcohol and insist on sun cream but at the end of the day they are on their own. There is a risk that not all youngsters will be as sensible as your offspring so you sit at home and worrying while they go off to party.

As you don’t know what company your teenager will be keeping you’d be well advised to get them to visit one of the many health clinics offering advice and support on sexual health. There are clinics in Essex, Edinburgh and across the country where young people can even stock up on condoms just in case.

Once you are happy you have issued all the warnings and advice there’s nothing more you can do but sit back and worry.

The festival scene in Britain has certainly been booming in recent years and there are dozens of events catering for every musical taste.

Among the most popular festivals are Channel 4’s T4 on the beach at Weston-super-Mare, Latitude, Reading, Leeds and the spectacular V Festival.

The V Festival will take place at two venues – Chelmsford in Essex and Weston Park, South Staffordshire. The line-up for both events is the same with stars being ferried between the sites by helicopter as befits their celebrity status.

The bill for the August events this year includes The Stone Roses, The Killers, Snow Patrol and Noel Gallagher.

The British weather can’t be guaranteed for these events of course and festival goers know they need wellies as well as their tents and sun tops. Each year thousands of rain-soaked, mud encrusted tents are abandoned by party goers at festival sites.

Many tents are collected by volunteers and cleaned and resold to raise money for charities. Other single person tents are given to the homeless living on the streets of our major cities.

Charities also benefit from the bottle exchanges held at some festivals. For a small fee helpers will decant drinks from the glass bottles banned at festival sites into plastic containers. Most festival goers are happy to part with a charity donation rather than having to give up their alcohol.

If your teenager will be enjoying the festival adventure this summer try and remember as you wave them off that you were you once too!

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