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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 15yr old sophomore just told me that he was invited to a homecoming afterparty that is being hosted by a group of seniors.  I'm not inclined to allow him to go as I think that an afterparty with 18 and 19 yr olds is probably not a great idea at his age (maybe wait until he's at least a junior?).

I also don't know the kid hosting, the parents, the other kids attending, etc.  I know I could call the parents, but the reality of that is people don't always monitor the kids the way they said they would once the party is happening.

My son is saying i'm being too strict.  WWYD?[/quote]

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There's much more mixing between upper classmen and lower classmen at parties today than there was back when most of us were in school[/b]  Younger, cool kids are often invited or taken under the wing of older kids.  Obviously, it a personal decision whether or not your kid should go, but be aware that there will be alcohol, pot and perhaps other drugs at junior and senior parties.  Sophomore parties have usually been tamer for my kids, though there was one last year hosted by a kid who was later sent to a residential drug treatment program.

The moral: know your kids, know their friends and know the friend's parents wherever possible. [/quote]

This was very much the case when I was HS in 1994-1998, so this isn't new at all. Especially if you had older siblings already in HS that were into parties in big numbers. My boys are 2 years apart, so its something I think about a lot, letting the younger one "be young" for as long as the older one got to without rushing into things 2 years ahead (and potentially missing out then on the joys of some of the younger years, after all you have your whole life to have memories of drinking and partying, truly nowadays people do that all the way to 30s as if they were still teens anyway!)[/quote]

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