What time do your 14 or 15 year olds come home?

[LadyInRainbow]

What time to do your 14/15 year olds come in at night? DD has made a new group of friends through a sport and is going out with them at weekends. Usually teen age stuff hanging around the streets, no drinking so far! The place they go is a safe small town but she has to get the train back (with a friend) 8 minute train ride. What’s the usual time for kids that age to come in? We’ve not had this before as she used to just chat to friends online.

My son and his friends are 14/15 and usually 10pm. They are at each others houses usually though and not hanging about the streets (their preference 🤣)

I will let my son stay at friends’ houses in the evening until 10pm, but he generally needs to be off the streets so to speak by sundown. Our area of the town is lovely but the town itself isn’t, groups of teenagers, we’ve had stabbing and assaults, property theft etc, I’m just not comfortable him coming across groups like that. Never been a fan of the ‘hanging around’ outside thing anyway, so we very much limit that in the evening. He’s usually playing football in the day but can’t do that in the dark!

I'm also not a massive fan of hanging around in the streets/park etc. If they're free ranging I ask mine to be home for dinner at 7. If round someone's house or at the cinema/bowling etc then I'm happy with 10 on a school night, 11 at the weekend.

We are quite lucky with our 14 year old, and I suspect it won't last long. School nights he's in by 9.30 but tbh is rarely out that late and if he is it's in a neighbours house or his friend / neighbour is in ours. He's in bed by 10 with lights off. Summer or weekends is in by 9.50pm and bed by 10.30!

If he has to get a train or a bus etc, I think I'd say he needed to be back by 8ish I think?

My niece and nephew that age aren't allowed to be "hanging around the streets" in the evenings at all. They would go to a friend's house/cinema etc but would probably be dropped off there & collected later on.

DS would come in about 10/11 on weekends when he was 15, unless he was staying at a friends house

My dd is 15 and came in at 10 tonight.
She was just over the road at her friend's house.

She sometimes goes to the nearest town on the train which is a 10 minute ride but I like her to be back from there about 8 with friends or earlier if she has to come back on her own.
Once she's back in our town she can stay out later as long as I know where she is and who she's with.

She comes in 9/9.30 on school nights.

I wish mine went out sometimes. All he does is sit in his room gaming with his friends.

10/11 on weekends. I don’t have set curfews. It depends where they are, what they’re doing and who they’re with.

I wouldn't encourage young teens to hang about the street at all. Going out somewhere or to each others houses is fine and home by ten I would think unless a special event. I also wouldn't want a fourteen year old coming home on there rl own at night either.

My children all adults now but at that age they were always home by 10pm
insisted that homework was up to date. They only went to friends houses .