Overnights - how many days and at what age

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dorm life and home alone are a different experience. Would you child wake up to a smoke alarm going off in your home? (My kids would never wake up to the landline phone ringing). How would they react to a true emergency like a fire on the stove? Those would be my concern.

Have you never left your child alone at home? A kitchen fire? Really? A 5 minute talk about how to use the fire extinguisher (which I am SURE you have, right?) would solve that. And put an extra smoke detector inside their room. These are silly examples.

[Anonymous]

I would suggest that he not tell anyone you are gone. That'll help prevent the drop in party. He can tell his friends after you get back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would suggest that he not tell anyone you are gone. That'll help prevent the drop in party. He can tell his friends after you get back.

OP. I already said that. Thanks for validating this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids are 18 and 15 and we don't do this. Staying alone at home is not the same as being away at college in a dorm. For starters, this is my house, and I don't want groups of teenagers with collectively plummeting judgment here, with free reign over it. My kid has a good head on his shoulders, but all it would take is a phone call or two (and those people making a phone call or six) for a party to get started here.

When will you let your children grow up?

I actually get her point mostly. I don't want kids in my house that I don't know well while I am not there. It takes a few phone calls for there to be an extra 10-12 people hanging out when it was supposed to be 3 or 4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids are 18 and 15 and we don't do this. Staying alone at home is not the same as being away at college in a dorm. For starters, this is my house, and I don't want groups of teenagers with collectively plummeting judgment here, with free reign over it. My kid has a good head on his shoulders, but all it would take is a phone call or two (and those people making a phone call or six) for a party to get started here.

When will you let your children grow up?

I actually get her point mostly. I don't want kids in my house that I don't know well while I am not there. It takes a few phone calls for there to be an extra 10-12 people hanging out when it was supposed to be 3 or 4.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids are 18 and 15 and we don't do this. Staying alone at home is not the same as being away at college in a dorm. For starters, this is my house, and I don't want groups of teenagers with collectively plummeting judgment here, with free reign over it. My kid has a good head on his shoulders, but all it would take is a phone call or two (and those people making a phone call or six) for a party to get started here.

When will you let your children grow up?

I actually get her point mostly. I don't want kids in my house that I don't know well while I am not there. It takes a few phone calls for there to be an extra 10-12 people hanging out when it was supposed to be 3 or 4.

+1

+2. I don't leave high schoolers alone overnight in my house.