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...to ask you what are your curfew times are for your teens?

58 replies

Bigglassofwineplease · 19/05/2017 21:45

What time do your 14, 15 and 16 year olds have to be home by in the evening? Need some feedback.....

OP posts:
FataliePorkman · 22/05/2017 17:54

DD1 has just turned 17 and hers is midnight. 9pm on a college night.

DD2 is 13 and not allowed out after dark- but we live in a "rough" area. Exceptions are made occasionally.

Isadora2007 · 22/05/2017 17:54

Another one with no curfew as such. Each situation discussed and agreed at the time. Often 10.30/11 if she wants picked up (dd is 16- nearly 17) and no time for after parties as long As she doesn't walk home alone...
rules are meant to be broken etc and I feel an arbitrary time is meaningless and often petty.

Floofborksnootandboop · 22/05/2017 17:57

11 at weekends unless they at something which goes on till later and 9:30 week days. Was the same for all until they turned 16!

IHaveBrilloHair · 22/05/2017 18:03

No curfew for 15yr old, it depends on the circumstances.
She's rarely later than 10.30 on a weeknight as that's the time the last bus gets her in from her boyfriend's.
Only goes out in the evening a couple of nights a week though generally, I'm usually in bed by 9, but she comes and wakes me up so I know she's safe.

YouTheCat · 22/05/2017 18:03

Fatalie, you said it was 2am on another thread a few days ago.

Dd never really had a curfew. She was sensible enough to not really go far on a school night anyway. Once she was 16, so long as she walked back with her friends, she could come and go as she pleased. She never abused the trust. I always knew where she was and who she was with. I suppose it's different if you're more rural. I don't drive so dd had to make her own arrangements.

SashaSashays · 22/05/2017 18:09

(15) 11 p.m. on a weekday and then at weekends it depends, I've collected at 3 a.m. from a party but if going out to say cinema and making own way home I would say midnight/1 a.m.

OddBoots · 22/05/2017 18:15

No curfew but if they are out in the evening it is at a planned activity so we pick them up when the activity is over.

anon1987 · 22/05/2017 18:18

I don't have a teen just yet, as my oldest dd is only 11, however my thoughts on freedom are changing as she's nearing that stage.

I really don't know whether il be comfortable with then 'hanging about' I'd like to know where they are going, who with etc, before I'd be happy to let them out.
I don't think I'll be happy to let them out till 10pm if they're going from one friends house to another or hanging about at the park.

My dp and I were a little reckless as teens, we had fun but I wouldn't want our daughters doing the same.

I suppose I won't know for sure until that time comes.

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