Help my teenager won’t stay home ( corona virus)

[Duckie22]

I am high risk from corona virus, I have a 15 year old son , I have begged to stay in and he won’t , any reasonable suggestions

Do you live with your sons father, or can you get him to move in with him?

Lock the door

Be brutal and tell him exactly what could happen if he picks it up and passes it on to you.

He's 15, if he goes out he can stay out and lock the door behind him and thank him for his concern over his at risk mother. The threat might stop him in his tracks and if it doesn't he can go elsewhere.

I can’t offer reasonable suggestions in the face of unreasonable behaviour. He shouldn’t be allowed back home.

You either lock him in or you lock him out, I guess.

Same issue here with an older teenager
Eventually had to have a very blunt conversation about her two vulnerable parents and what is likely to happen if she brings it in here - also provided frightening links to Italian situation etc
That did the trick and she’s now gone the other way and is totally panicking - so I’m now trying to calm her down!
But it took a few days of trying to reason with her - finally becoming completely blunt
But it’s sorted now
Would that work for you OP?

What CherieBaby said.

Show him/her the sky news report from the hospital in Italy?

Yeah I'd sit him down and tell him straight - he either bucks up or fucks off. A lot of tough love is going to be needed to overcome the selfish generation we seemed to have bred

What kind of parent that can’t tell their 15 yo to stay indoor for a while. Do you regret your shit parenting skills now?

That's not a very helpful comment. Teenagers are wilful, think they are invincible and tend to be on the selfish side. They are also practically adult sized, and you can't "tell" or force them to stay in anymore than you can an adult.

On radio 4 I heard someone talking about this. He said that if a teenager really refuses not to socialise then to compromise by making them stick to just one person that they see consistently instead of hanging out with different people.