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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 15 year old daughter went to a homecoming party at someone's house (parents were home) last night. I picked her and a friend up and both were absolutely wasted. After a rough morning, she said there was a ton of alcohol at the party (seltzers, hard alcohol bottles, etc), and she thinks the parents probably knew (apparently the girl who hosted it threw up an hour into the party and went upstairs to bed!!).

I always stay up until my kid gets home from things like this so that I can see what state she is in. This is the first time she's been obviously drunk. I am wondering if other parents do the same - are you all seeing your kids come home like this? My daughter seems to think I'm being unreasonable in terms of punishment, that everyone else's parents completely know they are getting this drunk, and I'm overly strict.

I think it's more likely parents are just too lazy/tired to stay up and check in on the state of their kids after a big party. There's no way my daughter could have walked home, even though it's just a 10 minute walk, in her state. So I am very glad I stayed up and picked her up.

This is new territory for us.[/quote]

The parents always know.  Sophomore year is early for this OP.  Figure out where you stand on all this is my advice.

Barely a couple weeks ago those teenagers were in a drink driving accident in Arlington with one dead and one sitting in jail right now.  And still parents just carry on enabling all this.  It’s depressing.[/quote]

Are you  new to the area?   The only thing that matters here is your kids looking the right way and getting into an Ivy. Seriously these parent care more about dyed  hair and the right boots for a party than serving alcohol to their kids.   There are basically no standards for teens, they do what they want , whenever they want  and maybe if you don't want to be seen as too permissive you give them a frowny face so you can still be besties and smoke together at their graduation party.[/quote]

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