Where have all the teenagers gone?

[Aridane]

Since lockdown, I have been out daily for exercise (and food shopping), taking different routes for variety.

And during this time, I have not spotted a single teenager.

Where have they all gone?!? It’s like a plague has wiped them out.

Pre lockdown - even in school holidays - there were plenty of teenagers around (you couldn’t miss them).

Are they now indoors, online? (I know my nephew was).

Is this dearth of teenagers unique to my area (south east London)?

Other age groups are reasonably well represented

Very much out and about around here in groups!

We saw a group of them out in the wild today. They were sitting in a circle at approximately 2m intervals. Seen a few others walking about with face masks and sliders on, and nearly got knocked over by one on a skateboard too. I think there were a large group lurking and smoking weed behind the closed cafe building but I didn't see them so they were just as likely in their 20s or 30s

They are now all vampires only out in darkness roaming the house for food.

@JMAngel1 been there done that, awake any time from 5am, try to insist he stays in bed until 6 at the earliest, giving in, Thomas the fucking tank engine on DVD at 6am every morning, me taking my duvet through to the lounge trying to doze on the sofa and ignore the fact that I was up at crack of sparrow fart yet again.
I am 100% loving the fact that I can sleep undisturbed until I choose to wake up. I've earned it.

I've started mine on Vit D supplements as worried about the lack of sun they are getting. Me too- I'd heard it was a good idea anyway with coronavirus going round, but now I yell "you're going to be vitamin D deficiency while opening the curtains and window and the thrusting tablets at, her only for DD to put the duvet over her head

Thank God for this thread 😆 One friend gets hers up at nine each day.

Ours are nocturnal, walk the dogs for vit D, help out etc, but just not until 5PM!

They are all hanging out on my local high street this evening

Guttersnipe; snap! 2 of mine just came down to eat the take away we paid for and now they are back in their rooms. Will see them about 10.30 tommorrow now although I will hear them raiding the fridge about 11pm

Because teenagers only go out in packs, and they're not allowed to now. So they've reverted to becoming nocturnal and gaming / eating crap / sleeping on repeat. Which up until 2 months ago we would have said was horrifically bad for them and would hinder healthy brain development. But now, because there's an illness around that is vanishingly unlikely to affect any of them (only 3 deaths in under 20s with no underlying conditions since the start of the pandemic) it's fine.

Yep, nocturnal.

my nearly 16 year old isnt nocturnal, I've insisted he keeps some kind of routine.
He is up by 10.30 and goes for a run or cycle, plays a bit on the phone/PS4. In the afternoon he does one whole hour of something that involves exercising a brain cell. We made a mini gym in his shed so he does a workout. Two evening a week he plays a game with Scouts, one evening joins a youth group on zoom. He comes down to the allotment one a week with me. Weekends he does his paper round, and can spend as much time on PS4 as he wants.
His mental health is deteriorating though,

JMAngel1

I remember when my DD1 was about 8 or 9 years old. She was shocked at how late her older siblings were getting up at the weekends.

"I don't know how they can spend all day in bed. What a waste of a day!" were her exact words.

The same DD1 is now 14yrs old, and in full hibernation mode. On the rare occasion she's up before 11am, it's to snarl from under her hoodie before retreating back up to her room with a plate of food.

So now DD2 is 9yrs old and has been heard to wonder out loud how her sister can possibly sleep for so long... :o

saw some of them doing a drug deal outside my house about 2 hours ago. So they're all into drugs, if you see them out and about in foot or bikes then they're dealing, if inside then consumers.

Are you implying all teenagers are either dealers or take drugs?

I know thighmageddon, wth??

So Cruddles you are saying ALL teens are drug dealers or ON drugs based on you seeing a couple of them dealing drugs? Okaaay

Crocodile

As a pre-school/primary school child DS considered 6am to be a lie in.

By the time he'd hit teen years, he considered being asked to be up by 10am, so we could visit relatives, to be akin to child abuse :)

My 19 Yr old is now nocturnal and very depressed at being back in a rural village after living in Liverpool

Bless them, I keep finding older teen couples (or rather my dogs do) in the woodland by the river. Theres the odd lurking group of boys on bikes, but what I'm really not seeing is teen girls.
My own teenager is kicked out once a day into the sun, but chooses to go out on his road bike normally

Mine are definitely in hibernation mode! Up reasonable hours in the week as the older one has a remote timetable and the younger one who is missing his GCSE's has vague bridging classes. They stay up late and spend most of the time in their rooms, coming out only to eat crap.

One's been out twice for walks, the other has full on hibernated and might need prising from his room kicking and screaming at the end of this🤣

School keep messaging to say students must stick to the timetable. DD was actually downing longer than the length of each lesson on each subject --but not starting until noon. To shut them up I was logging into the homework app at 8:50am for her. Now I think she logs in before going to sleep, in the hope that they think she's getting up early.

Pretty sure the dealing or using post was a joke
Humour hasn’t been banned (yet.)

16 year old & 18 year old here.

Neither are nocturnal. The 18 year old has a full zoom timetable if classes from 9.30am-4pm each day. She goes out for a run each day.

The 16 year old is up at 10am each day. He’s terrified of catching the virus. As he’s not allowed to socialise with his friends he sees no point in going outside. He practises his music, watches YouTube & video calls his friends.

Mine is like a badger. Only comes out at night. Just for food and then retreats into his den again. Never to be seen

Pretty sure the dealing or using post was a joke
Humour hasn’t been banned (yet.)

Was it?

We're in SE London and my 15 year old and her friends are out and about once a day, usually cycling or running past each other's homes where the process seems to be that the visiting teen loiters in the road whilst the resident teen sits on a windowsill and they have a yelled conversation. She and a friend met for a socially distant walk (one on bike, one on foot) on Thursday teatime and were subjected to passive aggressive comments from adults about how they must be from the same household . They've been put off meeting up again because they don't want to be told off.

With all the nocturnal teens maybe schools could use this for social distancing and have day lessons and night lessons. Teachers don't really need to sleep, do they?

I have 2 nocturnal teens and who still rises at 6.30am.