04-09-2004, 11:39 AM
It still seems over protective. Maybe if you know your child is going to be bad then, ya dont let them go out, but if you trust your child and reward them when they are resonpsible with more freedom then you will find out that they turn out to be good people in the end. When i was 14 i could go to movies with friends and my parents just wanted to know who i was going with, and maybe even which movie, but I think they were just making small talk about wanting to know which movie. Now, I can go out, usually they like to know with who, but not always. I have no curfew and it doesnt matter if its a weekend or weekday. I have told my parents an hour before I was leaving for a concert and they just said ok. Most kids would have gotten them selves into pretty hot water with the kind of freedom my parents give me, but I have never done drugs or made them regreat the freedom they give me.