Mnetters i trust you to do the right thing. vote here.

[Tortington]

am sat next to my 15 yo dd,

just for a laugh, but quite serious in that i know all yo SENSIBLE MUMMIES will chose the right thing

the story:

DD wants to go to a Manga conference in LONDON in October. she is 15. She will be going with DS's GF who is 18 and her friends also 18

stopping overnight.

dd things i am a " an untrusting mother, who needs to know that her daughter is maturer than her age"

i said "no fucking way"

you choose.

• i have final say anyway

c'mon she's sat right here

its 2 days or nuffin!

I would say YES too on balance.

But big 'you fuck this up, last time I trust you with this sort of trip for a while' chat to her and the 18 yr olds.

(and although this reeks a bit of over protecting, I would vet the hotel so they are not staying in some hovel in Kings Cross. I'm not talking about staying at the Ritz but at least somewhere where you know it is not horrifically awful late at night)

hmmm then i owuld have to think very hard about it.

ask me in 7years when dd1 turns 15 and i am a lot further one from 15 then

Nothing then....

No fucking way

have asked Peter, he said no, day would be fine but not overnight.

is there not one older person who could go with them (not to the conference) but could be at the hotel for emergencies?

i'd happily offer to get away from my brood for the night but will be hugely pregnant and likely to go into labour lol.

No way was I trustworthy enough to do that when I was 15.

pmsl www

aww misdee your a love

she has begged me to go but i said i would rather eat my own arse

HELL NO

How sensible, reliable, trustworthy etc is DS1's GF? Only she's not going to want to fuck up and piss off the mighty custy, is she?

thanks everyone for agreeing wholeheartedly with me

if they pay for my room and achinease i'll come. let me break the new to peter

oh to mooch around london for a day, havent done that since i was a teenager [sighs]

Knowing what I got up to at that age and because she is going with girls of drinking age and is not close to home I would say not a snowflakes hope in hell!
That said my parents let me go to the opposite ends of the country at 14 and 15 youth hostelling but then I was a fairly good fibber and they probably didn't know half the stuff I got up to!

Ez says thanks v. much but mum says NO!

Is it an annual conference or a one-off? Could she go for one day this year and over-night next year?

sorry Mini C.

It would be a no from me aswell I'm afraid

custy's dd is perfectly trustworthy I'm sure! But that's not the point is it?

the point is -

Is custy willing to give total responsibility for the welfare of her 15 yr old to a bunch of 18 yr olds? I wouldn't.

It wouldn't be fair on either the 18 yr olds or the 15 yr old.

to me and dh " GOD YOU TWO REALY SUCK, I HATE YOU " stomp stomp stomp to bed.

h a haa haa haa haa ha haaa ha

When I was 17, dh, (then db) went to the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert in Wembley (frm Glasgow). He travelled with his best friend, and stayed with a friend of his parents' in London. I (to please db, knew what the answer would be) asked my mum if I could go too. She said no way. I said "but M is going too".
She said "You want to go with two men?? This makes it better???" and laughed.
I didn't go.

Just thought i'd share . . .

No, Custy's dd, you can't go.

now dh is boring m about manga and film stuff from his teenage years and i am trying not to you.

he liked dominan tank police.

*trying not to yawn.

See this is the shitty thing, she has ASKED and we, and you, have said no.
She wants to go and see some stuff thats shes interested in...
Who, on this thread, at 15 was doing what the fuck they liked and lying to their parents about who and what they were doing?

not me, i was scared of my parents lol.

Well I was, but my parents didn't have a clue. We do have a clue

(Mind you I didn't say no...)