What are your rules for mixed (male/ female) gatherings at your house?!

[Anonymous]

My 16 son and friends are all into having girls over. Many of his friends and the girls attend singe sex schools so weekends are all about these gatherings.

[Anonymous]

Parent in the house the whole time. No alcohol or drugs. They stay in public areas. Much like same sex get together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent in the house the whole time. No alcohol or drugs. They stay in public areas. Much like same sex get together.

This, we have a camera in the basement too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent in the house the whole time. No alcohol or drugs. They stay in public areas. Much like same sex get together.

This, we have a camera in the basement too.

Yeah so they hang out in basement usually. You have a camera? Where in basement? Do they know about it? Do you go down and check on them? How often?

[Anonymous]

Leave out a tray of condoms and remember that any alcohol costs $2500 per child in Montgomery County.

https://davidwaranch.com/1107/maryland-traffic-lawyer-explains-social-host-liability/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent in the house the whole time. No alcohol or drugs. They stay in public areas. Much like same sex get together.

Yes, this.

No entertaining in bedrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Leave out a tray of condoms and remember that any alcohol costs $2500 per child in Montgomery County.

https://davidwaranch.com/1107/maryland-traffic-lawyer-explains-social-host-liability/

Um, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Leave out a tray of condoms and remember that any alcohol costs $2500 per child in Montgomery County.

https://davidwaranch.com/1107/maryland-traffic-lawyer-explains-social-host-liability/

Um, no.

'twas humor, that was. But the social host responsibility is real.

[Anonymous]

Only on main floor and basement (not upstairs in bedrooms, ever);
They are usually in the basement, come up to the main floor for meals (snacks ok in the basement);
Lights stay on;
We (adults) allowed downstairs any time, and we do so often (get stuff from basement refrigerator, pretend to look for something, etc);
When in basement, door from main level to basement stays open;
No drugs, alcohol, tobacco.

[Anonymous]

The same as when the same gender comes over. Phones go in the basket in the front hallway, shoes on the floor below.

Don't break anything or anyone. Don't do anything illegal or immoral. Come get me if you need help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The same as when the same gender comes over. Phones go in the basket in the front hallway, shoes on the floor below.

Don't break anything or anyone. Don't do anything illegal or immoral. Come get me if you need help.

Why do you take away phones? Do kids actually come over?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent in the house the whole time. No alcohol or drugs. They stay in public areas. Much like same sex get together.

This, we have a camera in the basement too.

Yeah so they hang out in basement usually. You have a camera? Where in basement? Do they know about it? Do you go down and check on them? How often?

We have a slightly younger kid. Yes, he knows. He helped install it when we remodeled the basement. Its an Amazon brand camera we got for $60. It faces the back door and main seating area (we mostly got it for safety/monitoring but watching him when he and/or his friends is a bonus). Its clear its there as its in the open and has a light on it. We can see it from our phone and talk through it (he does it to us when we are down there). We do go down as laundry and other stuff is down there but we have a smaller house so we can hear them too.

[Anonymous]

Is this why we have achievement gap? Kids would rather fornicate than do fractions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The same as when the same gender comes over. Phones go in the basket in the front hallway, shoes on the floor below.

Don't break anything or anyone. Don't do anything illegal or immoral. Come get me if you need help.

Why do you take away phones? Do kids actually come over?

Their phones are accessible to them. They are right between the front door and the kitchen. The phones go there so kids don't come over and sit down on the couch for two hours staring into them. Yes, kids come over all the time. I have a slew of them here now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this why we have achievement gap? Kids would rather fornicate than do fractions?

Uh duh, wouldn’t you?