to ask how often your DC/teenagers go out with friends?

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DD1 is 15 and goes out to parties, has brunch/dinner out with friends, goes shopping, etc, all very regularly as well as going to the stables to see her three ponies and ice rink and I'm wondering if it is normal for 15 year olds to be out most days after school, all weekend?

Only asking because she is our first teenager and DD2 (13) as well as DS (13) are only out for clubs/a couple of days a week with friends, not every day and night!

Thanks

I’m only 21 so I don’t have any teenagers but I remember when I was 15 I was out all the time after school and on weekends doing the exact same. However my younger brother didn’t go out half as much as I did even as he got older, think it must be a girl thing.

When does she do her homework?

When I was 15 I was only allowed to go out during the daytime on Saturdays, parents were a bit overprotective and I resented it a lot at the time. Looking back, I think as long as DD is being responsible about homework and not getting through an unreasonable amount of money then to go out at the weekends and a couple of nights during the week would be fair.

Ds 17 flits from out Fri til Sun to being in all bloody week end! Ds 14 out now and again as has ME and busy weekends don't bode well for a good week at school. Dd 13 not out and about as yet - her choice. Dd 11 local park often! Ds 9 not out unsupervised as yet.
When I was over 13 was never home!!

my 14 year old goes through phases of going out all the time, then rarely going out at all, though she still talks to her friends a lot when she's in

When I was that age I was out after school every day of the week apart from
Sunday's. And dinner time. I'd come home get changed go out. Come back when mum was back from work (5/6pm) for dinner then back out again until 9/10pm.

At 15 one of them went out every night with friends, by 17 they were practically reclusive the other one went out twice a week after school and had a friend over on sat/sun at 15.

So long as schoolwork isn't failing I think it's fine to let them find their own way with socialising

I'd say it sounds fine, providing she's getting her studying done.

Three teens here. One is always out. One is hardly ever out. The other is always doing the opposite of what I think she's doing (I think mostly so that she can give me that teenager special look of disgust like it's obvious she's staying in/going out) and it changes from week to week.

My daughter is 16. She babysits twice a week -once for an hour and once for three hours or so. She goes to a club once a week. She will often go out with her older sister on a Saturday. That's all she does regularly but she and her friends go to the cinematic there is something they specifically want to see and during the holidays they will go out for a day.

Her brother was out several nights a week with various bands/ensembles where he saw his friends but would only occasionally go out socially without music!

I was going to ask how she affords all the brunches and shopping but then I read that she has 3 ponies.

Fill her boots, I say. So long as the homework gets done.