Are you letting your teens out to meet a friend?

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Just wandering if I'm alone in not letting my teens meet up with one friend in the park now that the lockdown rules have been relaxed. I worry that they'll end up congregating with all their friends and being less than 2m apart or even going off to one of their houses when they get bored. Not helped by my DD's Instagram being splattered with pictures of her friends meeting up.

'MNers have a lot of sensible and trustworthy teens then'

It's all the great parenting advice we've received over the years, means we've turned out sensible, trustworthy teens.

Round here it's young men in their very late teens/early 20's and the elderly who aren't sticking to the social distancing rules. I haven't seen a single group of young/mid teens. Must be a lot of mumsnetters in my local area

I know my boys have been socially distancing as I have friends who've seen them out and about and they have reported back to me. The only time actually somebody shouted at them for being too close together they were out together as brothers and he had no right to do so - he was jogging past and was really rude to them. They politely explained to him that they were brothers so didn't need to socially distance but don't think he believed them. They are 3 years apart in age but same height.

Mine don't want to!

Ah yes @daisymay133 just make the vulnerable stay in, they probably don't want to go out anyway. FFS 🙄

Yes.

MNers have a lot of sensible and trustworthy teens then! Funnily enough, I’ve not seen any of these teens out and about. They’re all in groups close together.

You don’t see the trustworthy ones. Ds hasn’t been out at all except the doorstep to clap/play a song and to walk the dog with Dh. Wednesday was the first day he has been out alone. His friend who he met is working in a takeaway food shop and until Wednesday had literally walked to work and back and helped with family shopping.

I know they were sensible because they didn’t know that I was going to be driving past and also Ds phoned me whilst he was out.