Is it U to leave 2 teenagers between 9pm and 11.30pm alone?

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DH thinks it is.

I don't. I think they'd be fine.

Who is right?

They'll be fine.

I've left my 14 year old several times now to babysit her 11 and 9 year old siblings. They are always fine. I have a few ground rules - no naked flames, that sort of thing, but they are very sensible children in general.

I was babysitting overnight for a neighbour who was a nurse and had 4 kids from the age of about 14! Of COURSE they will be fine. I had left home at 16 - not ideal I know but ykwim!

Put it this way - would you leave them alone between 3pm and 5.30pm? I should imagine that you might - I would (I have 2 DDs, 14 and 16 so same age gap as yours).

I can't see that any more harm could come to them in the evening than in the afternoon and all you're considering is 2.5 hours, not overnight. (AND I'm normally the PFB/PSB paranoid parent from hell more cautious than most about my DDs!).

Perfectly acceptable if they're NT kids.
My girls were more than capable at that age but no way could I leave my SN boys, not even for 3 mins to pop to corner shop.

Go out and have fun

well we have two teenagers in the flat above and everytime their parents go out they have mates round drinking and i am pretty sure loud sex. they are about 14.

it is funny because the other kids are ushered out pronto 30 minutes before their parents get home

so yeah

Did your DH want to go out without you and was using the kids as a reason for you to stay at home?

Has he come back yet?

Me and dp say yes.

I think it's fine. I was babysitting other kids overnight from the age of 13.

My Mum went on holiday for a week when I was 17 and my DB was 15. They would be fine on their own.

i wdn't either. i too babysat at 15 - put ad in window of newsagents and had the father of girl i sat for drive me home at midnight - wouldn't want my dcs doing any of that though.
times have changed and i think dcs of today have changed too.

I babysat from 9-and-a-half years old, as my parents discovered I had loads more sense than my 14-year-old babysitter at the time. She sat on her arse while I did all the work!
However, my eldest is nearly 11 and I wouldn't leave them alone during the day never mind at night. In 2 years time, I would reconsider the situation though.

times have changed and i think dcs of today have changed too.

I think that it is parents who have changed and are over protective.

For crist sake, at 15 I was left alone for whole weekends while my parents went away. I was perfectly fine.

Yes, I would leave them unless they are likely to start jousting with hair straighteners or inviting hundreds of local reprobates round to drink White Lightning.

ha ha ha bloody hell i reckon they might live for a couple of hours. I agree with buddamuma sounds like he wants you to stay home maybe thats why hes disapeared to tell the mistress tonights off.

I would love to know how people manage to get a babysitter for a 15yr old. When I belonged to a circle people had stopped by then. I wouldn't want to sit for a DC that age.

:o at getting a babysitter for a 15 year old

If my parents had tried to get me a babysitter when I was 15, they would have had to come and get me out of the pub first.

I think this is fine, we never had an evening babysitter at that age when DPs went for a night out, they just left a contact number of where they would be (no mobiles then either ). Especially girls if they are sensible and get on ok.

Gosh! They could run away and join the Army or RAF at 16! .

They can join the army but not stay at home for 2 hours at night! It says it all.