Sometimes DSD (nearly 17) can give me a look which makes me feel like I'm from another planet and in the wrong.
Last night for example. Family night we went for some dinner then to the cinema, gets home she goes up to Twitter/FB frenzy as usual. Comes downstairs (in PJs) and says "oh some of the girls are having a sleepover at x place, its okay I'll get a taxi so can I go?". These are girls that she works with, we dont them plus she's staying out tonight at her college friends house who we do know well.
Its not the staying out that we minded (she usually stays out once a week i.e. when she's too drunk to come home), but the lateness of it. Plus she grumped all night saying how tired she was. When she leaves the room DH always looks at each other and justify again, but she makes us feel like the most strict parents in the world.
I appreciate she's getting older and wanting more freedom but still 11pm - am I a bit harsh?
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SwivelHips · 01/04/2012 09:45
No not too harsh.. or at least if you are I am too 
Mine older ones have plenty of freedom (17 ad 19) but I expect fair warning if they are going out overnight and 11pm isn't fair warning..it's last minute plan which probably hasn't been thought through, and she already has plans for another night out!
She won't be emotionally scarred forever..just slightly grumpy but better rested :D
Yes I think thats it, fair warning. And she came downstairs this morning at 10:30 
because she couldn't sleep. I usually have to start shouting like a demon at lunchtime to get her to come downstairs for food so it all turned out well in the end.
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