Dear Care and Feeding,
I was quite surprised last weekend when my eighth-grade daughter went to a coed party that the parents knew about, but for which they weren’t present. I did not think to ask if parents were present, and my daughter genuinely did not know they wouldn’t be. My daughter is not inclined to get into trouble, and nothing happened at the party—when I arrived to pick her up, the children had just sat down to a game of truth or dare.
