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?

Or in a few months anyway.

They'll be fine. I too wonder what would happen to them these days that wouldn't have happened to them 30 years ago when I was that age. We didn't even have a phone at home until I was 15 so my parents weren't even contactable yet we survived and were perfectly fine.

Do they come home from school alone and spend time alone in the house normally? If they do I really can't see what the problem is.

Hope your DH turns up. Seems like he may have done a runner to avoid the issue - you get to stay home with them! Nice!

Did you end up going out?

Did the DDs survive? or did they burn down the house or kill each other?!

FTR i was babysitting OTHER kids in fact the youngest was 4, i was 13.

Jesus Christ, these threads are getting worse. At 13 I was making roast dinners while my parents went out for a few hours walk and I was babysitting my 10 year old sister. If my son couldn't look after himself for a few hours at that age I will have failed as a parent in my eyes

Dear lord I was babysitting my new-born brother at age 13. I think they will be fine. But did DP come back??

By all means leave them alone for 2.5 hours, just ensure you tell THEM you will be back in 3.5 hours.

If you arrive home to a clean house and two mildly surprised teens, you got the times mixed up, everyone goes to bed happy. If they are planning on misbehaving, they'll have timed their return home / cleanup operation for about half an hour before you're due back so you'll arrive in time to see what's really going on.

Very effective tactic. My parents actually returned home a DAY "early" once and caught me tippex-ing over the post-party fag burns on the windowsill which even then I could see was quite a cunning trick

I'm guessing she went out or she'd be here updating us...

What I want to know is did her dp go with her?

Also, most babysitters I know ARE 15 so how would that work?

And @ squeakytoy! Precisely.

I left my 10 and 13 year olds for an hour to go to parents evening, I would not trust them not to get on each others nerves for much longer yet.
No way would I dare suggest that the older one is baby sitting, since both are very sensible and both get left for 30 minutes or so when I'm doing taxi service for the other.
Next door often left their 13/14 yearold look after him self, but his 10 year old went to grans because they couldn't be trusted not to fight.
I think my two can be trusted not to fight, or more accurately I trust DD1 to bugger off to her room until DD2 has stopped stroping

Right- I am back! I haven't been partying all this time (had to work). DH did come back - turns out he'd gone to buy pizza, just forgot to tell me (eejit).

Party was fabulous and surprisingly the DDs didn't kill each other nor set fire to anything - that I have discovered thus far.

I have no idea what the problem was for DH. I really don't. we're fairly neglectful lax most of the time.

Glad it went well, OP.

My two DC - 14 and 15 - are asking when I would trust them to be alone overnight!

13 and 15? Good grief, I was left on my own for a few hours every week from the age of 8!!

My parents went out friday, saturday and sunday night and left us home alone, from when I was 13 onwards - we were sensible and are still alive.

OP so pleased it all worked out well for you.
I have left mine home alone from when they start year 7 both after school and in the evenings. DD1 is very sensible and I never worried.
From last year it was DD1 and DD2, I was slightly worried as DD2 can be argumentative but so far she has behaved herself. I think that she realises that she only has once chance and if she causes any problems she will be sent to stay with her cousins or grandparents every time.

You do know in another year the 15 year old could legally marry or have kids of their own?