I have a teenage daughter, 15. She's just gorgeous, inside and out. She's a high achiever at school and hangs around with a great crowd.
At the weekend she asked to go to a friends house for a sleepover which we ( my husband ) agreed to. She was with 3 other friends. She was given money to go get treats, all was good.
While she was away I had a notification that she had turned off her phone tracker ( standard apple app which she knows is there and that I look at occasionally when she is out just to know where she is as being in a rural town we don't always get signal ).
I text her when this showed on my phone that she had turned it off to make sure she was ok. She replied with " yes, just turned iCloud off ". I didn't look into it.
So tonight she let slip that she and friends were hanging round town until late ( 11 plus ) there was a fair in town, she said they all went to the fair. She didn't want to tell me what she was doing as she thought I'd say no, which I have never done. I've always bent over backwards to let her be able to do exactly what she wants. I was bought up by a mother I feared and certainly don't want this for her.
So why lie? And more so, how should I react? At 15 I don't want her hanging round town late at night. She tells me other girls are doing worse and she feels like she's missing out.
I'm flummoxed. I genuinely don't know how to react to this? Make a deal of it? Don't make a deal of it? All I want to do is make sure she can talk to me and never ever fear me.
Parenting just gets tougher!
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Dizzyajc · 03/05/2017 21:21
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