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What are your 15/16 year olds doing on NYE?

44 replies

Carteblanche · 28/12/2013 20:52

Mine is desperate to find someone with parents stupid enough to go out and leave the house to them for a party.. it won't be us, but we dont want them to end up drifting round the streets, they're too young for pubs and nobody's having a party.. We have told dd she can have a few friends round, but we ( dh and me, and younger sibling) will be at home ,and it's a small house, so she's not taken us up on our offer. We don't know what they're going to end up doing. What are yours doing?

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NoComet · 29/12/2013 11:39

Last year we went round to DFs who's teen DDs are her best mates.

secretscwirrels · 29/12/2013 15:39

15 and 17 year olds both staying in with us. I will cook a nice meal and we will watch tv. I wish DS1 would socialise but we live in the sticks and so do all his friends.
I don't "do" new year though. I'll be in bed at 10 as usual.

80sdrummer · 29/12/2013 15:48

Ooh I've just posted about this very thing in chat for advice on how to deal with a mixed unsupervised sleepover on NYE. Maybe I would have been better posting in here instead.

Would welcome expert teen handlers views over here Flowers

MaryzBoychildCheeszuzCrizpz · 29/12/2013 19:17

We have friends with children similar ages to ours so we are spending it together in our house (three families) and possibly a few random extra teens whose parents I know well. The teenagers will all stay over - with no alcohol.

It's sort of a compromise - easier because dd and ds2 are amenable to a family game of charades and a night of x-box/dvd-ing.

With ds1 it was very different - he was out on the streets at that age and I have no idea where he went.

MaryzBoychildCheeszuzCrizpz · 29/12/2013 19:18

I've seen your other post, 80sdrummer, and I won't answer on thread because my answer to your friend would be "are you fucking crazy, no way are mine going" Grin

SandStorm · 29/12/2013 19:19

Mine will be working (she waitresses locally).

NigellasDealer · 29/12/2013 19:20

nothing I hope, they are with their dad and I don't suppose he will let them go out in a strange city. mind you he was still spoonfeeding them yoghurts til a couple of years ago. ok I am exaggerating a bit.

80sdrummer · 29/12/2013 19:31

Maryz I tend to agree with you, but didn't want to use the same words Grin

TheOriginalSteamingNit · 29/12/2013 19:34

16 yo having some girl friends over to sleep, 12 yo same. It saves us feeling crap for not having or being invited to a party!

hootloop · 29/12/2013 19:42

I don't have any teenagers but I was 16 in 1999 and millennium eve was the first night I was allowed to stay out after 10:30. It was one of the best nights of my life, me and my mates went to centenary square (Birmingham City Centre), drank vodka from a sprite bottle and got the last bus home.

ChristmasBigKnickers · 30/12/2013 18:29

DD 2(15) has organised a meal out for her and six friends in the town nearby then they are coming back to ours and most of them are staying for a sleepover.

DD 1 (17and a half) is going to a small gathering at a friend's house. They are booking a taxi to come back here and splitting the costs between them.

Philoslothy · 30/12/2013 18:38

We have a big party at home, the children usually have their own sub party as part of that.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 30/12/2013 18:39

Mine have now made their minds up.

DD1 (18) is going clubbing, she says. Ugh.
DD1 (16) is going to a friends for a while and then coming back here with one or two others, for a takeaway and a sleepover.

tinytalker · 31/12/2013 12:04

Mine (16 &13) will be at home with us; dinner, Jules Holland's Hootenany & a glass of something fizzy!
I'm dreading the whole party/clubbing phase!!!!

3boys1cat · 31/12/2013 15:59

DS1 (18) is going to cinema with friends to see Gravity, then not sure where, but will be fairly sedate. DS2 (15) & DS3 (13) staying home while we go out locally. Much Xbox involved I expect.

ArthurCucumber · 31/12/2013 16:12

Mine (turned 15 two weeks ago) was proposing to catch a train to the city an hour away and spend today there, then get the last train home - on NYE - followed by a sleepover that included boys at the house of one of the friends, whose Mum was going to be out. Nope.

She was good-natured enough about it, and stayed with the friend last night instead, with just a couple of other girls and the Mum at home we checked . A bunch of them are in the city today and getting an early evening train back to avoid NYE shenanigans. Then she'll be home with me, dh and dd2(12), who has spent the day devising a fiendish game called "Squares Of Dares". By the look of the dares we'll be spending most of the evening eating spoonfuls of Marmite and then running around outside with our pants on our head.

SirChenjin · 31/12/2013 16:23

Square of Dares - I like the sound of that! Grin

bigTillyMintspie · 31/12/2013 17:51

I am reading this, wondering if DD will be off out with her mates next year. My friends DD has been trying to convince my friend to let her out to a party somewhere with people she doesn't really knowGrin

DD(14) and and DS(12) will be coming with us to family friends party as usual - they will have lots of fun with the others who are the same ages.

mathanxiety · 31/12/2013 18:42

DD2 (18) has finalised plans to go bowling with her friends for a midnight session.

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