What do your (older) teens do for NY Eve?

[mumblechum1]

???Say 16/17 year olds who can't go to the pub yet

On the getting home front, we have a jar with £30 in it specifically for emergency taxis, so ds knows no matter what the problem is he never has to walk home in the dark (4 miles from civilisation) or, more importantly, get a lift from someone who's just passed their test and/or has had a drink.

Yeah agree re drink and drugs.

Loads of their mates are going and they all look after each other.

Not sure a cab will come out tom the middle of knowhere last minute. I can 4 before I found a cab company that was working.

I wonder if I am over reacting and should just let them go...and get the bus back at 10am

In my day it was parties at someone's house. Or in a someone's field (that was more common in the summer than NYE).

Thanks maryz - really helpful
Am sure our local cab company may do that. I will ask them.

NYE an odd time to want to stay in tents whe there is an offer of a cab home

DD1 is 18 now, so this year will be legally getting sufficiently wankered, somewhere in the West End I suspect.

DD2 has about a dozen or so friends coming to ours for supper and then they're heading up to the London Eye/South Bank for the fireworks. They're all 17 and will likely be having a drink or 4 at home before heading out, and probably having a few more when they roll in which I suspect will be stupidly late as it will take them an age to get on a night bus or the tube not my problem. I, sensibly, am going away for the night with DD3 who is almost 3.

DS is 15 and going to a house party, but they'll not really be drinking more than a couple of beers each as parents of his friend are there.

Would I be happier if we still lived in London and they were going to see the fireworks ......hmmm........

That sounds a tad ominous Silence - is there something I should know? DD1 did it last year with her chums and they had a lovely night and were dreadfully hanging so DD2 fancied a bit of the same.

My DS whonis almost 18 does get served without ID
Am sure New Year in london Town will be fab. And at least there is a tube home!

This is true - and it's free after 11.45 which is even better.

DD1 was 18 a couple of months ago and is more pissed off that she hasn't been asked once for ID since her birthday! She went out with my sister a couple of weeks ago and it was DSis that was being ID'd (she's 29)

Mine went up to London last NYE and got served in bars everywhere with no ID. Stayed there all night and came back in the morning. Underground even provided those silver blankets for people sleeping on the station platform.

This year he is 18 so off to a club.

DD2 who is 18 is going to the Street party in Edinburgh with a gang of friends and 80,000 other people!! She has had the lecture about pickpockets, sticking together, not letting anyone go off with a stranger but when i got to "now, are you going to have something to eat before you go?" she finally snapped with "no. I'm going to starve all day and then try and drink my own body weight in vodka, mother". Think its time I shut up

@ dementedDD

DS1 17 is going to a house party a few miles away with some of his friends.

Silence - DS asked to do the tent thing in November. We camp, but I said "no" - it's too cold, they won't feel like putting it up when they've had a drink and if they have had a drink (if?) they might do something stupid and sleep with very few clothes on and get over-cold or something. I'm not a precious mother at all, but camping in the garden in the winter after a party is one thing I said no to.

I'm debating whether I shouldn't have a drink, either. I'm taking him there, but not sure yet how he's getting home. It's a bit too far to walk which is the usual way he and his friends get home. I'll decide tomorrow.

DS has finally got his act together at the last minute and is going to a mates, then round the town where there'll be fireworks over the Thames so the bridge is closed off as a sort of standing party venue, then either sleep over at hsi mates or get a taxi back to ours and carry on getting pissed.

Can't see his mate wanting to pay for a taxi back to ours £20 after mindnight, but at least he's doing something now. Why are teen boys so indecisive/disorganised? If he doesn't get a specific party invite he doesn't move off his ass.

In answer to the 'I'm going to drink my body weight in vodka'. My dd1 has a saying - "eating is cheating". Kids today seem to take vomitting to a whole new level.