To swan off on holiday and leave DS1 behind on his own?

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DS1 is desperate to go to this week-long LARP event in August with his big-boy cousins and a buch of his mates. He's sixteen, has already been to several and always has a great time ...

The problem is that the rest of us are supposed to be in Scotland that week with my family and as we're staying on an island just running him back ( it's near London ) isn't really an option!

He wants to stay at home so he can go to his thing - would I be mad/ criminally irresponsible to let him? He's very sensible and his Grandma lives two doors away on one side and his Uncle's just across the road ...

What do you bunch of vipers think?

Let him stay, as long as you think you can trust him and he's got family/friends to call on nearby.

Ahh, I'm glad his Gran's going to feed him!

My mum once left my brother when he was a teenager, but she didn't do much food shopping before she went and just left him money to get his own food. It was spent on the first night on takeaway pizzas for him and his friends!

DS1 is 15 this year and I'd probably leave him, though maybe not for a week. He'd only sit in front of a screen and eat crap. No different to what he does when I'm here really! (Only I try not to give him to much of the crap!)

threaten Let his granny move in for the week

If he is sensible then go for it! I stopped going on holiday with my parents at 16 and they naff off for two weeks leaving me to work and hang out with mates was brill

It's not quite the same but one of my rental flats was empty the summer my son turned 16. I let him and some of his friends use it for the school summer holidays. It's just in the next street to us so we were around if any disasters.

He was 15 and 11 months most of his friends were 16. It's a 3 bedroom flat, I assume it had a floating population over the summer. I had no complaints from the neighbours who knew they would he there and the flat was fine.

at more lemonade and Pringles than speed and slammers!

I moved out at 16. He should be able to look after himself. Esp if you have family in the same st to keep an eye on the house.

I was living on my own at 17, parents on the other side of the country. Assuming he's sensible I would leave him.