Yr 11 son 1st girlfriend

[purplerain270]

So my 16yr old son spending day with gf an fam. Am I unreasonable to want to share contact details with his girlfriends parent?

Having read more of the thread: you could ask him for the parents’ number so you can thank them. If he says no, accept it. He might just hand it over.

He wd be a adult? U don't have children

He’s almost an adult. Will you be ready to let him go out without other people’s contact details by then?

Do you have the contact details of all his friends’ parents? At 16 I only knew the ones who went to primary school with him and that’s fine imo.

Op do you remember being 16...? Because I'm willing to bet your mum gave you much much more independence than you want to give your son.

He is 16. He will be at college in a matter of months. I do have an 18 and 15 year old actually not that it matters.

To be fair, my employer asks for emergency contact details, and I know colleges do too, so if something happened even as an adult someone would be contacted.

However, that's very unlikely. So I'd agree op doesn't need to exchange details. I certainly haven't had details for my 16 year olds newer friends parents (they generally were exchanged in year 7 / 8 though).

However if you have a specific reason such as offering petrol money, no harm in asking . And I would want to know if he was going away with them or something.

Don't offer expenses, that's just weird

Well yes but that only works if you are actually at college or work went the 'something' happens.

As would thanking them be.

I have a 19 yr old son and have his girlfriend’s number and her mum’s number also. My younger son is 16 and has recently started dating. His girlfriend’s mum asked a mutual friend for my number and messaged me to introduce herself and said she felt more comfortable with me having her number if her daughter was here. How does your son feel about you potentially having the other parents number?

16 is way too old to be sharing parents details, unless they’ve gone abroad. If he went to friends house after school would you do this?

Your DS can thank his GF's parents himself when they give him lifts, he's 16.

It makes sense to me 🤷‍♀️

doenst have to be big thing