Comments on: Teen Daughter – Curfew, Shmurfew

By: Tishia Lee

Tishia Lee — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:21:04 +0000

Great job on sticking to your guns and not giving in!
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By: T

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:55:59 +0000

Boundaries baby! You did good! Especially when I know you’re a pushover with your daughter. :)

Great post!
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By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:49:17 +0000

You did the right thing. The friend calling to ask rather than your daughter would have been a red flag for me. She knew what your answer was going to be.
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By: The Lapsed Muse

The Lapsed Muse — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:51:38 +0000

Trust is a big deal. We didn’t have curfews set in stone with our older kids – it was more likely based on the event. Fortunately there were rarely any requests for extensions so we didn’t have too much trouble. But by the last half of the senior year of high school we were a bit more generous since we knew that once they were away at college it would be out of our hands. We needed the half year of “hands off” to see how they would handle being on their own.

Our kids know beyond doubt that we trust them. But if they took advantage of that trust, the reins were pulled in far more sharply than they’d like – and their response was amazingly correct. Both their Dad and I are far more savvy in the ways of teenage sneakiness than we would ever admit to them. Between the two of us, there isn’t much that we didn’t try to get past our parents. ;-)

I don’t know your daughter or her friends, so I can’t say if the SOM would be a red flag (my kids and their friends have surprised me at times with old movies they love), but the friend calling would definitely sound the alarms. You did good.
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By: BigLittleWolf

BigLittleWolf — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:47:46 +0000

Couldn’t help but chuckle. Boys are a little different. And not.

Maybe what’s different is that my house is the one where all the kids crash for the night… they’re required to call home first. It has been a long, hot summer – of stepping over sleeping bags on my living room floor…
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By: ilinap

ilinap — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:36:01 +0000

You don’t need me to tell you you did the right thing. And test her on the Sound of Music soundtrack. I’m pretty sure I lied about watching that movie at a friend’s house too when I was 17.

By: jaime

jaime — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:42:55 +0000

Well the Sound of Music *is* a really long movie.
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