Anonymous wrote:So you literally know no teens who weren't trouble makers? I never smoked, drank or touched a drug because I didn't want to.

I am the PP who posted that all teens are idiots, not the one who responded before.

I would love to ask your parents about you as a teen. I didn't say all teens were troublemakers just that all teens make terrible choices. That includes you. It I how they learn to be well functioning adults. So can congrats to you for making some terrible choices as a teen!

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Anonymous wrote:She needs new friends and less free time. Help her pick out a new sport or activities with a whole different group of peers to meet.

+10000

Sounds like it's time for a part time job.

Anonymous wrote:She needs new friends and less free time. Help her pick out a new sport or activities with a whole different group of peers to meet.

This is a great point. More activities and a job ASAP.

That park has a Ramada area next to the playground. I assume that’s where the teens are? There’s a bunch of homeless guys who hang out there so I find it kind of Kerch anyway?

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Anonymous wrote:omg I can’t believe this is happening in Bethesda

probably because it's not.

This.

You should do a stakeout when she’s there to see if she’s hanging out with the “rough” kids.

I’m one of the PP and I’m remembering sitting on top of the monkey bars or something contraption at a school playground while we passed around joints in the dark. Teens have been doing this forever. My own children never need to know that.

Tell her not to go. Avoid the area with trouble. It’s like Waters field in Vienna. It’s a field in the middle of a very safe area. But if sports aren’t going on, there are lots of middle schoolers up to maybe 9th graders hanging out. I’ve seen it too often when I’m driving one of mine to practice. Big groups of kids flirting, showing off and yes, some fights. You see the occasional bottles and vaping too. This is an area right across from a fire station. When DS was in middle school he got pushed around and did some pushing himself. I’m not sure I would call it a fight. So as a parent, you tell them to avoid. And know it’s the only place your kids want to be since all of the cool kids are there.

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Anonymous wrote:16 year old at a playground? Is she special needs? Otherwise she’s looking for trouble. Neurotypical, good kids wouldn’t be interested in this for a hangout.

You’re too funny. Where the heck did you grow up? Playgrounds have been go-to places to hang out, smoke, flirt, do drugs since i was a teen in the 80s. And the tradition continues.

I don’t allow my 15 year olds to go to the playgrounds.

I'm sure my mother thought this too. Turns out she had no idea what I was doing most of the time.

Weird for a 16-year old girl to be hanging out at a park after school.

I was always at soccer practice, doing homework, or at a close friend's house (or my own house with her).

At that age, that type of thing is drugs, alcohol and trouble as you describe.

Unless there are actual sports going on---guys playing basketball, it's loitering for a 16-year old hanging out at a playground.

Anonymous wrote:My 13 year old and their friends (12-15 year olds) go to parks to hang out but not necessarily the playgrounds. We are in a place where there really aren't any places to walk to beyond the park and 7/11.

12 and 13 year olds at a park or playground doesn't sound weird to me. They are still children. 14 and 15 if they are behaving themselves I have no problem with that either. This age group ranges from not teem to early teen.

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Anonymous wrote:Your sixteen year old daughter hanging out and fighting at a park for little children is one of the rough kids, OP. The level of credulity to think your kid is so innocent she has no idea who jumped her or why, but also so determined to hang around kids whose names she doesn't know and who occasionally beat her up, is pretty funny.

They're going there to vape/smoke pot/drink/hook up where their parents can't see, and Larla absolutely is one of "them".

Sorry, Mom. This poster is spot on. She is telling you what you want to hear – not her fault, it was other bad kids. It’s going to ALWAYS be other bad kids unless you wise up quickly.

Exactly. OP is extremely credulous.

My 13 year old and their friends (12-15 year olds) go to parks to hang out but not necessarily the playgrounds. We are in a place where there really aren't any places to walk to beyond the park and 7/11.

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Anonymous wrote:16 year old at a playground? Is she special needs? Otherwise she’s looking for trouble. Neurotypical, good kids wouldn’t be interested in this for a hangout.

You’re too funny. Where the heck did you grow up? Playgrounds have been go-to places to hang out, smoke, flirt, do drugs since i was a teen in the 80s. And the tradition continues.

I don’t allow my 15 year olds to go to the playgrounds.

News flash! Your DD is one of the "rough kids."