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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, in about a year they will be in college. [/quote]

+1. With my specific kids and my parenting philosophy, this would be my approach. Unless I had a specific reason to distrust the group of friends based on past behavior, I'd be fine with this.[/quote]

Wow.  What magical powers you must have to be so confident that you can predict the behavior of a group of unsupervised teens during their first weekend, ever, of total freedom.

You're probably also broke if you can't think of all the millions of ways that this could cost you, financially, should something go very wrong.

Sure, they'll be off to college in a year, but there's actually more supervision on a college campus than what the OP is describing.  There are procedures in place at colleges for dealing with a crisis, there are MANY other kids around who could theoretically call for help or intervene, there are campus "police" departments to help handle emergencies, there is an administration to kick out kids who are really out of hand, and so on.  Some of the reason that many colleges insist that their first and second year students live on campus is because the result of zero supervision is rarely good.[/quote]

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