Love my big kids.

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We have reached the point where my bedtime is earlier than my teenage kids. Off I go, leaving them with pleas to PLEASE turn off all the lights before they turn in.

On Friday night they were all three out with friends. I went to bed. I know they're fine, but I don't really sleep until I know they're home safe.

One by one I heard them creep in, tiptoe upstairs, quietly open my bedroom door, and let me know, "I'm home, Mum. Had a good night. See you in the morning."

It's just a small thing, but it made me feel so lucky to have three good kids who are out there living their lives, and then thinking to let me know they're home.

Ahh that's lovely.

2 of my 3 DS's are like this (the eldest took a bit of reminding), but they basically always keep in contact and let us know where they are and roughly what time they'll be home.

They actually worry about us worrying, even though we don't really worry as much as they think 😁

That's lovely OP.

It's so good to hear positive stories about family relationships where parent and children have love and respect for each other.

My little one (23 m) always waves to the ring doorbell when he comes back from a shift at the restaurant that he works at. He’s taught his girlfriend to do it too, when she comes back with him. When I wake up for my 2am wee, I watch them on my phone app. It’s intensely cute 🥰

Ahh I love these stories!

I picked my son up from a party last night. He was very happy and giggly on the way home, just the right level of tipsy, and made me belly laugh for ages.

I bought him a maccies breakfast this morning as a treat and he was over the moon!

My nearly 16 year old, who has just finished his GCSE’s, didn’t care for the Reading festival most of his mates went to in celebration. He chose to camp out at Wimbledon, with his tennis playing mate instead to try and get tickets. DS has never shown the slightest interest in tennis. Their tent leaked, they didn’t take hats/suncream/sunglasses but got themselves onto Centre Court, and Court 1&2 and by all accounts, had a great day.

We live in a pretty rough part of SE London and whilst he’s able to get himself around perfectly well, when he messaged and said he’d be back at our local station about 11pm I offered to walk down and meet him. I fully expected him to say not to bother - it’s a 7-8min walk. But he said that would be ‘nice’ as it’s a bit ‘sketchy’ at that time of night. I think he actually just wanted to see his mum after 24hrs of roughing it a bit 🤣

My 31 yr old just texted to say she (and her DH and little ones) had arrived safely at the inlaws after a very long drive.
My 33 yr old rings me every other evening to tell me about her day and just to chat.
My 32 yr old is now in Australia permanently. Before he left to marry his lovely Aussie he never went to bed without a 'Night Mum, love you' and he still video calls late at night just because he can.
My 28 yr old is still at home driving me nuts😄
None of us live in each other's pockets but the bond is still very strong, between us all. The best days are the rare holidays (all going to Oz next year) when everyone is together.

I feel very lucky!

You are indeed, lucky to have 3 good kids. Only as long as they are staying in their beds overnight though - I was climbing out my bedroom window and running all over the place when I was 13/14. Parents thought I was fast asleep the whole time. Used to hide behind trees when we hear a car in case it was the police. No reason really, other than it was just a fad during the summer holidays and quite a few of us used to meet up. Jesus; if my DC had even thought of doing that, I would die....

I leave my dc's bedroom doors open when they're out, so if I wake and don't know they're back, I can tell by the door being closed.

I ask them to send me a message once home, and they're pretty good but not 100% at remembering, so it's good to be able to check by sticking a head into the hallway.