Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it common for high school kids who live in DC or other big city suburbs that aren't walkable to not be allowed to socialize with friends outside of school and clubs (including weekends)? I have a hard time seeing how this would work since if I'd tried that with my child he would have been sneaking out all the time. Is this a post-COVID thing? Mine had a taste of freedom before COVID began, so there was no way to put that horse back in the barn. Maybe today's kids are just different?

What do you mean by this? Why would your teen sneak out in the middle of the week? Who would be driving or picking him up? How would you not notice this?

Anonymous wrote:Is it common for high school kids who live in DC or other big city suburbs that aren't walkable to not be allowed to socialize with friends outside of school and clubs (including weekends)? I have a hard time seeing how this would work since if I'd tried that with my child he would have been sneaking out all the time. Is this a post-COVID thing? Mine had a taste of freedom before COVID began, so there was no way to put that horse back in the barn. Maybe today's kids are just different?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of nut jobs some of you are! I'm OP and this is the first time I've written since my original post. You can stop accusing other posters of being me now. SMH.

"OP is insecure as hell - first she asks if it’s normal and then when a bunch of people reply yes it’s normal, she realizes her parenting sucks. She lets her kid socialize during the week or her kid would “sneak out” (her words). Yet her kid goes to a top 5 college, gets paid to be flown to client sites while in HS, rubs clubs, gets straight As, and can run circles around anyone else. And OP is combative as hell. Something isn’t adding up. I smell troll.

OP, do everyone a favor and put down the alcohol."

I didn’t get the sense that OP was the maniac. And I don’t think it’s a bunch of nut jobs, it’s one sad woman who was in particularly rare form. Don’t drink and troll, people.

OP, please give it up. We know it was you responding to every post you got that disagreed with your initial post. And this is you now too. It is very obvious.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are people talking about high schoolers? As long as my kids have their homework done, studied for their tests, they can go out during the week. They often do: quick meal after a game with friends, Target to run an errand...Not until late, but I feel like they should learn to manage their time and I don't want to limit their social activities.

The difference is your kids are not in activities so lots of time.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of nut jobs some of you are! I'm OP and this is the first time I've written since my original post. You can stop accusing other posters of being me now. SMH.

"OP is insecure as hell - first she asks if it’s normal and then when a bunch of people reply yes it’s normal, she realizes her parenting sucks. She lets her kid socialize during the week or her kid would “sneak out” (her words). Yet her kid goes to a top 5 college, gets paid to be flown to client sites while in HS, rubs clubs, gets straight As, and can run circles around anyone else. And OP is combative as hell. Something isn’t adding up. I smell troll.

OP, do everyone a favor and put down the alcohol."

I didn’t get the sense that OP was the maniac. And I don’t think it’s a bunch of nut jobs, it’s one sad woman who was in particularly rare form. Don’t drink and troll, people.

Anonymous wrote:Are people talking about high schoolers? As long as my kids have their homework done, studied for their tests, they can go out during the week. They often do: quick meal after a game with friends, Target to run an errand...Not until late, but I feel like they should learn to manage their time and I don't want to limit their social activities.

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Anonymous wrote:If kids are unsupervised and hanging out in public mid week, there could be vaping or drinking involved. Not to mention the idiotic behavior teens seem to display when out in groups unsupervised. No, my kid won’t be part of that crew.

They can do that on the weekend as well. Nobody is supervising HS kids.

If that is the crowd in which your teen runs, then you can't avoid it. However, if your kid runs with a good crowd, you don't have to worry much.

Anonymous wrote:What a bunch of nut jobs some of you are! I'm OP and this is the first time I've written since my original post. You can stop accusing other posters of being me now. SMH.

"OP is insecure as hell - first she asks if it’s normal and then when a bunch of people reply yes it’s normal, she realizes her parenting sucks. She lets her kid socialize during the week or her kid would “sneak out” (her words). Yet her kid goes to a top 5 college, gets paid to be flown to client sites while in HS, rubs clubs, gets straight As, and can run circles around anyone else. And OP is combative as hell. Something isn’t adding up. I smell troll.

OP, do everyone a favor and put down the alcohol."