Do you know where your kids are right now?

[DdraigGoch]

Over the last week there has been a large increase in anti-social behaviour on Britain's railway network. Gangs of youths hanging around stations and boarding trains when they should be social distancing. Do you know where your kids are right now? Do you have anything more than their word for it? British Transport Police and the territorial police forces have better things to do than rounding your kids up.

Apart from anything else, if you have no good reason to be out in public, DON'T be.

Rant over.

DD is lying on the sofa, her feet are in my lap and she’s listening to a free audible book. She’s nearly 16, she hasn’t done this for years 🥰.

Ok, I know I'm overreacting a little. I also know that the sort of parents who frequent a parenting advice site are more likely to be the responsible ones. I was also more thinking of secondary-age kids rather than grown up ones or primary-aged. That said, someone somewhere clearly doesn't know (or maybe doesn't care) where their kids are.

Please help get the message out. If you have no cause to be out and about, please STAY HOME.

17 year old is NOT observing the level of social distancing I would like, but right now is playing Xbox in the living room. Can’t remember when we last sat together on Saturday night & am so shocked I am putting off going for a bath & appreciating the experience. Although the noise of the Xbox game is starting to annoy me.

Right in front of me on the floor, drawing lovely patterns

Most parents who use a predominantly parenting forum aren't going to have feral kids roaming the railways.

In their cot next to my bed. Pretty sure it isn’t them.

15 Yr old is in PS4 upstairs. Rest are sat with me watching a film.

They don't go anywhere on isolation apart from to the local fields with me

Gaming/ talking to his mates online. He had an asthma attack on Wednesday night so we pulled him out of school early, he’s been desperate to be in contact with his mates as no school equals no gaming in this house.
We are about 4 miles from a railway line, no public transport after 6pm...

Yes sitting in the living room, routine is out the window without school.

You're not overreacting OP. I've lost count of the amount of posts from local police forces asking if people know where their kids are after having to deal with numerous anti social behaviour by gangs of youths . It's not on at the best of times but to happen now is beyond belief and I'm fuming too.

No kids should be out now. We all need to play our part in flattening the curve. Sick of seeing parents say they can’t keep their 15yr old in. Of course you can. I certainly am

Mine slipped through a portal earlier and are frolicking in unicorn-filled starlit meadows*.

• They went to bed an hour ago and are asleep.

14 year old playing fifa.. The furthest he has ventured is to the kitchen for food

Yes, 21 year old, 16 year old and 11 year old just watched Aladdin with me.

Mine are under the dining table.

My children are odd.

I have a teenager. She is in her bedroom right now, and will not be going out and about for quite some time, given the social distancing guidelines. That said, I do always know where she is anyway.

In his cot in his bedroom. The cat on the other hand.....

Both upstairs 18 and 13. They both know how serious this is.

In bed.... I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old though 😂

@puds11 love it

Mine are all in the house and online . Chip off the old block.

I was waiting in the car outside Sainsbury's tonight while my daughter went in and there was a gang of youths outside the entrance doors maybe about year 9/10 high school age, everyone going in or out couldn't help but be so close to the group, they were grabbing each other, pushing each other.
Unless parents step up and stop this sort of thing we have no chance.

My nearly 2 year old 21 month old (when does it becone unacxeptable to do that according to mumsnet?) Is fast asleep in his cot. He's in a sleep bag and 2 fliggts if stairs up with a baby monitor on so would struggle to escape silently. He does bloody love a choo choo train mind...

In bed. The 12yo made a brief plea to go to a friends earlier - the glare she got from me and her dad meant she didn't even finish the sentence before stropping off.

However I went up later and she'd voluntarily put her clean clothes away 😱😱

10 yr old in bed but not asleep !
17 yr old currently staring into the freezer, hoping the contents have miraculously metamorphosised into something more exciting and pudding like