Whats the latest to let a teenager stay out?

Question

My 16 year old wants to stay out later than what I want her too, at friends house.

Answer 1

11pm tops

Answer 2

I would let my 16 year old stay out until 10 during the week and 12 on the weekends. But I also will go to that person's house and check to make sure she is there. So when she's goes anywhere I have to have a phone number and I have to know where they live. And I tell her she better be where she says she's going to be or a Tibetan Monk will have more of a social life than she does.

Answer 3

I have a teenage daughter also who wants to constantly stay at freinds or go to the city to hang out. Well other than bungy tying them to the house, show your teen the amount of teenage kids that are missing and presumed dead here in brisbane alone. Take a walk in the valley and see young ones sniffing paint and prostituting themselves. This will hopefully make your child want to stay home or do things with the family.

Answer 4

i would let her stay out till 10 on week days long a though she calls u 2 let u no were she is and 11 at the most on weekends no later and if she brakes the rules that u set then take 1 hour of the times and keep doing that b firm and don't give in as then she has got a way with it she will soon lurn and when she dose as she it told up it again 1 hour when she comes it on time

Answer 5

Im sorry Im old school so i dont think on school nights kids should be out, period, plus as the adult dont back down on the time you set already it makes more susceptable to being convinced and manipulated in the future. I worked two jobs in high school, did ROTC, and everyother sport thing under the sun and had a curfew even when i had a meet or event. Nights that i didnt and i had a school project with a partner i had to be home by 6pm. Weekends Friday and Saturday night i had to continue to call in and let them know where i was. My curfew on Friday and Saturday was like this"when is the movie over? 15 minutes after that be home". Parties "who will be there? then no". I wasnt allowed to go to parties unless my aunts went. Even then I had to be home by 10 on Friday and Saturday it wasnt till I was a Senior that i got to stay out till midnight. This is a diff day and age though. Trust your instinct and protect your child

Answer 6

My parents were strict, and I'm glad they were (now, that is.. not then). I was supposed to be home for dinner every night of the week and was not allowed to go out during school nights unless it was a school function or a study group. Then my curfew was 9pm. On the weekends it was 11pm. If I was at a friend's house I was expected to follow the rules of that house (most of my friends had parents like mine) and most of the parents knew each other. I think it is a good idea for parents to know other parents... it's safer for the kids in that respect, especially now.

Answer 7

At sixteen, my parents had a strict curfew of 10:00 on school nights, and midnight on the weekends. The only stipulation was they HAD to know EXACTLY where I was. I guess it depends on what kind of town you live in, and where all your daughter is going. The main thing is to be firm. A curfew is not a negotiable thing. Maybe set one, and give her the opportunity to "earn" a later one. Like, for example, if she does all her chores for the week, she can stay out and extra half hour or hour on Saturday. Something like that. It gives her something to strive for, and you get her to do the chorse, it's a win win situation. Good Luck!

Answer 8

you do have to come to the fact that she is getting older and you are going to have to give her some slack. Setting a time limit of when she must be home is great as long as it is reasonable! Call her friends house and make sure that is where she is going to be! Talk to her parents, exchange number and so forth to assure your child's safety. But all in all, if she is a good kid then you shouldn't have to worry too much.

Answer 9

I have teenagers of my own and I do not let my kids go anywhere past 8pm unless they are with other parents supervising them and this is not because i don't trust them they know that they have all of my trust but I had to sit with them and talk to them and let them know that they are very precious to me and that they are al kinds of sick people out there that don't care and do thing such as drive drunk, rape, kill, so they don't ask anymore unless they know that the environment they are going to ask for permission about is a good one, once they are 18 that's a different story my eighteen year old got so use to this that know his going to be 20 and he still calls home atleast 3 times to let me know where he is at and where he is going even thought we don't ask him to do so.

Answer 10

Okay well you need to start a trust thing.

Like a curfew of 11pm on weekends, and a 9 pm curfew on school nights.

If she always comes home on time, keeps her grades up, and is being responsible, let her stay out longer. As long as she stays responsible.

Answer 11

i believe all kids should have a cur-view, it differs with each kid and how trust worthy they are?but i don't think they should be out passed 11pm, just remember when setting that cur view, you are legally responsible for your children, if they destroy stuff while there out, you could be paying out the butt or losing your home?just keep your eyes and ears open and be a parent not a friend. parents gotta stay tough. think hard before making a desion?good luck, teenager are a hand full