Drunk son!

[Bossyboo]

Age old story nearly 18year old son been to a party tonight. Just come home very drunk - friend bought him home - bless him! He's apparently been quite sick and the last time it was water. He's apologising and swaying - the question is do I need to sleep in the same room as him to check him in the night? My husband thinks it's weird and he just needs to sleep it off but I am a bit worried as he has drunk a lot of spirits. I don't know what the correct thing to do in these circumstances tbh!

Oh and get the vacuum cleaner out, early, on the landing. My mother used to do that

So many sheep-like MNetters slap this out on their keypads without thinking about what they're saying.

Apart from the fact it's childish and nasty, it could well encourage drunk teens to stay elsewhere for the night.

And who's going to make sure they're not choking to death in their sleep then?

Never mind, as long as you get to prove some sort of 'hilarious' point 🙄

I think Jellybeanfactory was being tongue in cheek!! I thought it was funny.
It may have been tongue in cheek but there's quite a few who think it is a good idea.

@KissMyArt or like me and my peers all now knocking 50 we learnt our lesson and never got in that state again.

Oh give over.

You didn't learn your lesson because mum got the Hoover out 🙄

You learned it because learning your alcohol tolerance level is part of growing up.

You're lucky you got to grow up and not choke to death on a friend's sofa, because you wanted a lie-in.

18, he will get over it, I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been on that trip

@KissMyArt so you are able to see inside my head and see the equation. Sorry I thought I knew my experiences, but obviously not!

Give over yourself!

What was done to you was dangerous and nasty and if you have your own kids, please do not repeat the cycle.

Surely you can see potentially driving drunken teenagers from their homes at night, is dangerous?

No I don't @KissMyArt it was and continues to be standard among my peersl group of educated professionals including two nurses who use the hedge trimmer in the summer.The teens don't crash elsewhere as other parents would quickly drop them home. And one lesson tends to resonate and the behaviour isn't repeated.

With all due respect the chocking could happen anywhere it's generally silent.
We simply have to agree to disagree.

Your not alone my 19 year old son got in this morning at 4:30am after a party.
He was fine he went straight to bed.
Woke up fine.
Theres been times i wonder how he gets home.
But i never stay in his room with him and we have had some rough nights with sick if is one of them nights i leave a gap in his door just in case bucket with a bin bag in it job done.
He`s not too bad now since one night about a year ago left him sleeping in his own sick all night.

Why be so spiteful to your kids though, presumably they are at college/work all week so purposely waking them early is a shitty thing to do.

Luckily we all have respectful relationships in this house, if you're home late you try not to wake up others, if you are up early then the same. Of course there are exceptions to this when stuff needs to be done but just out of spite I cannot understand that.

It's not spite it's cause and effect @Legendairy . If you come home puking drunk you will have to put up with it.

And amazingly we all grew up and continue to raise functional adults who fully intend to use the same method - it worked!

Coming home puking drunk isn't respectful either! Different folks different strokes.

My son did it when he was about 17, went to a party when they were only going gaming and friends parents brought him back absolutely hammered. None of the kids were supposed to drink but they had all taken some alcohol from home etc.
Mine took Pernod with him and what a stink it was when there was noise from either end, I slept in one twin bed with him in the other, head in bucket, surrounded by towels as I thought he would choke the noises he was making.
Stopped him overdrinking for the rest of his teens and doesn't even drink now.

Exactly, its not going to stop teens fro doing this, most of the time the intention isn't to get in that state anyway so they won't learn from it. I mean I did this about 2 years ago and I was in my 40s, plays a stupid shot game that I clearly wasn't very good at and it did not end well! I'd be really upset if my family purposely made a load of noise to teach me, they did laugh at me lots though!

My 21 year old ds did this twice off when he was younger (18/19).

He actually learned his lesson after the second time when he was so pissed he came home without his brand new iPhone. he was so angry at himself for getting so pissed that he lost it and he hardly drinks anymore, maybe a few times a year and if he does, he knows when to stop.

I made sure he was on his side, pillows behind his back so he couldn’t roll over. Bin bags on the floor next to his bed. And I couldn’t sleep, I checked in on him every 45 mins or so.

Oh my god, all those typos, new varifocals and a non sleeping toddler 🤣

Totally agree. I’m also mid 40s with an 18 year-old DD and a 15 year-old DS. DD got properly drunk a couple of times when she was 16/17 but overall doesn’t drink as frequently or as heavily as I did at her age, and DS hasn’t been drunk yet to my knowledge. He had quite a few beers at a family party abroad last summer and told me ‘Mum, I feel more sociable than usual’ (he is very much an introvert) which was very cute but he wasn’t ‘drunk’- was totally in control and had a great night. He obviously has a high tolerance but also just doesn’t seem to be interested in getting drunk.

I think that generation are a lot healthier than my friends and I were in our teens in the 90s! Loads of them go to the gym etc whereas when I was a youth, not many people really went to gyms at all and only fanatics went out jogging (as running was called in the olden days). Much fewer of them smoke (although I realise lots vape) they drink less and probably take fewer drugs too. I also think if my two are anything to go by, that the youngsters are more chaste than we were in the 90s! (Or maybe that was just me and my friends 😳

@Hhhh80 oh god yes. I’m 43 and my eldest is 21. From the age of 15, I was always at the pub, or at gigs drinking. I only really stopped when I fell pregnant with him at 22. The mid - late 90s were crazy though. that whole Britpop and ladette culture, I was out in Camden most nights for years.

He didn’t do parties as a teen, hardly ever goes out now. He is police though, so sees a lot of awful things that happen due to drink.

Well with my mum, she was an early riser. She had her routine and liked to stick to it. So if I’d gone out drinking the night before and was hanging the next morning it was tough luck.
I’m a lot more easy going and don’t have strict routines so my 2 DS’s are safe from
the hoover!

Lol at all the pearl clutching at the thought of a hungover teenager being woken up early by a bit of hoovering!

Couldn't give a shit, on Xmas eve morning after my teens had been out I was up in the loft which is next to their rooms and had to hoover ready for guests so it was unavoidable, the point is I would never do it out of spite. I just don't get that.