DS is 12. This afternoon he was home from school about 40 minutes later than he would normally be. When asked why he was late he said "I went home a different way". We live a 5 minute cycle ride (if he's on his own) or a 10 minute cycle ride (if he's with friends so too busy chatting to do much cycling) away from school. Hence his "reason" is rubbish.
Other than making a joke about his "other way" must have been via a point the other side of town, I decided he obviously didn't want to tell me, and left it at that. However, I'm now wondering if I should have pushed more and where on earth he could have been.
He would have told me if he'd been chatting outside school for ages (normal cause of lateness).
He would have told me if he'd gone to a friend's house.
His school don't do after school detentions on a Friday.
In fact you can only stay in school if you are working in the computer room or library and he would definitely tell me if he was doing this!!
So I'm out of ideas ....wondering if I should torture it out of him?