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Did I over-react? Teen easy child issue
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 227000" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>This isn't so cut and dried for me. I had a very troubled daughter, but I also had easy child sons and my youngest daughter seems to be easy child-headed too. I would say "no, don't let her anywhere near those parents" except that by 17, she is pretty much the way she is going to be. If she is going to drink, drug it up, have sex all the time, etc. it in my opinion would have already happened. Of course there are exceptions, especially when kids stay at college dorms (which is one reason my child won't unless she pays for it--she can go to college here), however your daughter has been a good kid all of her life. She is almost an adult, and she has resisted drugs before. Trust me, she has been around people who use and has said "no, thanks." All kids are exposed to drugs. I believe I learn toward letting her go. She'll be legal next year anyway, and she has made wonderful choices so far, you are very lucky. I have two twin nieces who are straight A students, never really dated (although they are quite pretty), don't drink, don't do drugs etc. They are more mature than the adults you know who still smoke pot...lol. I really think it depends on the teen. I may get a lot of flack here, but I'm not so sure I'd make my daughter come home if she was that level-headed. Of course, the one down side is that if the police raid the house and she's there, she could get arrested with the other kids, if there is stuff going on. I hope others have more concrete advice. I always go by the child. Each child is so very different. I'd hate for a daughter who earned your trust to think she no longer had it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 227000, member: 1550"] This isn't so cut and dried for me. I had a very troubled daughter, but I also had easy child sons and my youngest daughter seems to be easy child-headed too. I would say "no, don't let her anywhere near those parents" except that by 17, she is pretty much the way she is going to be. If she is going to drink, drug it up, have sex all the time, etc. it in my opinion would have already happened. Of course there are exceptions, especially when kids stay at college dorms (which is one reason my child won't unless she pays for it--she can go to college here), however your daughter has been a good kid all of her life. She is almost an adult, and she has resisted drugs before. Trust me, she has been around people who use and has said "no, thanks." All kids are exposed to drugs. I believe I learn toward letting her go. She'll be legal next year anyway, and she has made wonderful choices so far, you are very lucky. I have two twin nieces who are straight A students, never really dated (although they are quite pretty), don't drink, don't do drugs etc. They are more mature than the adults you know who still smoke pot...lol. I really think it depends on the teen. I may get a lot of flack here, but I'm not so sure I'd make my daughter come home if she was that level-headed. Of course, the one down side is that if the police raid the house and she's there, she could get arrested with the other kids, if there is stuff going on. I hope others have more concrete advice. I always go by the child. Each child is so very different. I'd hate for a daughter who earned your trust to think she no longer had it. [/QUOTE]
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