DD is 14 1/2. She has SN's. yesterday for the first time, I let her out after dark, to go to a park for a memorial for her best friend's birthday. I know that this happened, she has photos of all the flowers and gifts left for her friend.
(Her friend died in July from Leukaemia.)
However, DD was 45 minutes late home, and looked like she had been drinking. I have a cold, so couldn't smell anything, so if she had been or not, I couldn't have smelt it on her.
My friend who lives nearby is adamant that everyone had gone home long before the time DD left the park. But I know that she was outside with other teens, I spoke to her on the phone 40 minutes before she left.
However, her eyes looked like she had been drinking, though of course she denied it.
WWYD?
Is it acceptable? I don't like it, but at 14 I was very screwed up, and was drinking and taking drugs, so I don't know what a 'normal' parental response should be.
I can't prove anything, just have my suspicions and gut instinct.
DD hasn't drunk before. At all. So even 1/2 a bottle of WKD or whatever teenagers drink these days would affect her. (Was MD 20/20, brightly coloured fruit flavoured paint stripper in my day...)
I need some perspective on DD possibly having a bit of a drink on what would have been a very difficult day for her, reflecting on her best friend that died's 15th birthday.
WWYD?
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CouthyMowWearingOrange · 02/10/2012 09:14
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