As somewhat of a professional parent chaperone for field trips
, Tim would be one of the parents I would probably side-eye the entire time.
A legit chaperone is there to HELP the teacher. You help watch the kids, or sometimes the teacher splits up groups of kids and assigns them to a couple parents. Maybe in their preschool it is more lax, but in elementary school I often had to spend more time watching other kids, keeping them from doing things they shouldn't, or redirecting them... my kid would be in my group but you don't just pay attention to them, blab with them, or ask them "do you love it Buddy?". And if someone from the place is talking to the kids, you don't overtalk them or question them. I can totally see him now, acting like he does with the furries on the cruise ships, or explaining things to the kids like he is the expert.
Also, I will be really curious how J handles his dad there as a chaperone. Again, unless this is being called "chaperoning" but it is really just parents tagging along, J is going to have to share his dad with other kids. They might talk to Tim or try to interact with him and J will have to cooperate and allow that to happen. Will be interesting if they ever say how it went and whether they add in a "well, J had trouble
understanding that he didn't have his dad there all to himself and he just didn't
understand how to handle that...Jenn: *fake laugh* ...."
