Anonymous
Post 09/11/2013 10:15     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
I was babysitting at 12 or 13 years old, so was my sister. Not unheard of.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 19:23     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
16 year old. Friday is usually sports practice. Saturday morning is usually sports of some kind. At night it is either family dinner, babysitting, going out to dinner/movie with friends, or hanging out in our finished basement with friends.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 19:21     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ok, only tangential, but I think the problem was that the poster mentioned that her 13 yr old was a 10th grader, both were not necessarily, and clearly designed to make the point that she was accelerated. Either 13 or 10th grader would have done just fine. My teenager's routine is pretty similar to what is described but then again she did not skip that many grades, just a few.


Not only that, but she/he talks about the 13 year old using her babysitting money. 13 year olds rarely, if ever, get hired to babysit.


Maybe that's where you live. Where I live there are four or five houses with little kids (elementary school to baby) and two houses with teens (mine and another) and those two girls get hit up for babysitting all the time.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 19:14     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My 13 year old is in 10th grade and on Saturday nights she babysits. She does not have a curfew for that. She usually calls me when she gets bored - around midnight - because she is tired but doesn't feel right napping on the couch.

On Friday nights she usually does something with friends that ends in a sleepover. They go to see a movie, go to the mall, go ice skating, etc., then go to someone's house, make pizza, bake dessert or make homemade ice cream, and stay up late before crashing. No curfew for that but we discuss on Fridays where exactly she's going, and what time she'll get to the house wherever the sleepover is.

Dh and I always offer to drive. We hear some very interesting shit when the girls think we're focused on driving. If there is not a sleepover then there is a time agreed upon when they will be home or picked up.

DD uses some of her own money from babysitting and allowance and sometimes DH or I will give her some - it's not a hard and fast rule.


Your 13 year old is in 10th grade???


Yep. She'll be 14 in November.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 19:13     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Fri nite is football game or wrestling or baseball. Sat AM is practice and review of game/match film. Sat nite he usually goes to movies with teammates, maybe out for ice cream afterward. Often it ends with everyone here to play Xbox, eat and swim. The weekends are pretty focused on sports.


When do they do homework? I envy your time to focus on sports and family time. Our kids are at Deal and they get some time consuming project virtually every weekend starting in October-June. It is absurd and frankly depressing. The kids are A students but the homework is really a huge drain on their time.
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Teams have mandatory study tables from 2:45-4:30 mon-Fri. The boys have to use that time to do homework, a few Teachers are available to tutor them if needed. Weekend homework is usually writing papers which my son does at study table. All papers are done on iPads which school provides. I don't pay much attention to DS homework as long as he's getting A's.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 11:30     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
Friday - dinner w friends and watch tv or go to football game.
Saturday - avoid the parties in Potomac so as not to get tased.
Sunday - homework.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 11:14     Subject: Re:What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
I know the parent of the 13 year old was humble bragging but it is something to think about when kids skip grades. Who wants a 13 year old in 10th grade!
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 11:02     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
My in utero kid is working on an exciting new translation of Le Rouge et le Noir.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 10:57     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
My 8 year old will graduate from college this year. Parents of 13 year olds in our neighborhood hire him to babysit their unruly teens. He is a calming influence and inspiration to them, although they do tend to get a bit wistful about what they COULD have been had they applied themselves.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 10:45     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
Anonymous wrote:Friday and Saturday nights my 13 year old plays video games if allowed. Sometimes we do movie/pizza night on either of those nights. Saturday during the day he has practice and then on Sunday a game during the day and another training that evening. Homework must be done on Saturday's as there is no time to do it on Sundays.

I keep wondering when he is going to start hanging out with friends. I know girls are already doing this at this age so I dont know if boys are a bit slower or if it's just my son and his friends. He would play video games 24/7 if I let him. Since school started there are no video games during the week so he wants to play any chance he gets on the weekend.

Occasionally he has gone to the movies with friends but usually he doesn't ask about getting together with friends. Mostly he has friends spend the night, but then they spend the entire night playing video games.


I could have written this post! My 13 year old is exactly like this. I think it's pretty normal.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 10:25     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
Friday and Saturday nights my 13 year old plays video games if allowed. Sometimes we do movie/pizza night on either of those nights. Saturday during the day he has practice and then on Sunday a game during the day and another training that evening. Homework must be done on Saturday's as there is no time to do it on Sundays.

I keep wondering when he is going to start hanging out with friends. I know girls are already doing this at this age so I dont know if boys are a bit slower or if it's just my son and his friends. He would play video games 24/7 if I let him. Since school started there are no video games during the week so he wants to play any chance he gets on the weekend.

Occasionally he has gone to the movies with friends but usually he doesn't ask about getting together with friends. Mostly he has friends spend the night, but then they spend the entire night playing video games.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 10:12     Subject: Re:What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
My 12 year old is in college. But she does not babysit.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 09:26     Subject: Re:What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
Friday-events relating to his sports - game, team dinner, etc., goes to home football games, sometimes has to stay home if SATs (happened a lot in 11th grade) or games/meets the next day. Saturday -goes out with GF, dinner, etc. Sometimes watch movies at our house or hers. 12 pm curfew because of license restrictions. It was 11 when we had to drive.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 09:17     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
Anonymous wrote:Fri nite is football game or wrestling or baseball. Sat AM is practice and review of game/match film. Sat nite he usually goes to movies with teammates, maybe out for ice cream afterward. Often it ends with everyone here to play Xbox, eat and swim. The weekends are pretty focused on sports.


When do they do homework? I envy your time to focus on sports and family time. Our kids are at Deal and they get some time consuming project virtually every weekend starting in October-June. It is absurd and frankly depressing. The kids are A students but the homework is really a huge drain on their time.
Anonymous
Post 09/10/2013 08:47     Subject: What do your teens do on Fri & Sat nights?
Anonymous wrote:Ok, only tangential, but I think the problem was that the poster mentioned that her 13 yr old was a 10th grader, both were not necessarily, and clearly designed to make the point that she was accelerated. Either 13 or 10th grader would have done just fine. My teenager's routine is pretty similar to what is described but then again she did not skip that many grades, just a few.


Not only that, but she/he talks about the 13 year old using her babysitting money. 13 year olds rarely, if ever, get hired to babysit.