Reply to Do you talk to your teens immediately after big events, i.e. Homecoming after-party?

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Do you talk to your teens immediately after big events, i.e. Homecoming after-party?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to decide what you think it right and wrong on this issue. DD is a freshman and I’m shocked how much drinking goes on. We told her 14 is too young and we don’t agree with parents hosting parties so she’s not going to any until senior year. This is harsher than I expected we’d be but the reality is if we give an inch now, I’m afraid we’ll lose control. And I don’t want to compromise and negotiate this over and over for the next 4 years. 
The first time she got invited to something with alcohol, the parents claimed they didn’t know, when asked after the fact. DD didn’t go and I went out of my way to make sure she and some friends had something else fun to do that night. I can’t do that every time, but I plan to try to keep her busy and doing other things.  I have no idea what people are thinking when they have a large group of 14 year olds over to drink. They had to know but I guess don’t want to be judged for it [/quote]

Parents do nothing to prevent it and look the other way.  So then can say they don’t know.  Pretty easy to go upstairs 2 floors and ignore the whole thing.

It’s so annoying to me and I wish these people could somehow be publicly shamed.[/quote]

I KNOW. I thought the family might get shamed because this is a small community and I naively thought everyone would be equally shocked they hosted a freshmen drinking party but I guess everyone is buying the "we didn't know, they snuck in alcohol" line. This is our oldest so maybe everyone has already accepted the reality that kids are drinking so early[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics