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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/potomac/2015/09/21/family-n-potomac-crash-victim-releases-statement/72583840/
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I'm not sure how I feel with this statement.  I agree with most of it, especially that the host parent should be held criminally responsible.  However, their child wasn't doing right either.  It feels like they are blaming everyone else, without admitting that their son was drinking underage.[/quote]
When I know my kid is going to a house with the parents home, I do not expect underage alcohol. Do you?[/quote]

Not "expect" but at that age, I question what that are doing.  Absolutely.  Do you have teens?[/quote]

I have teens.  When they go to their friends' houses, I call the friend's parents to ask whether they will be at home.  I ask about alcohol (in recent months I bring up the crash discussed here).  And if I have a bad feeling or know the parents or kids and don't trust them, then my kid doesn't go to the party.

When my kids' friends come to our house, I am in and out of the basement getting laundry, bringing snacks, keeping an eye on things.

I don't care if my teens are embarrassed.  They are alive.  And their friends like hanging out at our house, so presumably I have not made my kids pariahs in their social circles.[/quote]
Somebody here needs parent training from you.[/quote]

PP here.  I am not a model parent, but I have strong views on this issue.

It's not hard to do what I do.  But you have to be willing to be the parent and not the best friend. And to take a hard line.

I think my kids and their friends like these boundaries.  Teens need limits just as toddlers do.[/quote]

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