When teen agers are out and don'tcall when late Do you freak out?

I must admit I was one of those teens too at times. Sometimes out late and I wouldn't call to say I was going to be late. The things kids put their parents through. I'm surprised my Mother never tried to reverse that on me and go out, stay out late, never call and make me wait up till she got home.

Thank God for cell phones. My teenagers have cell phones which link me to them at ALL times. They always have them with them so there is no excuse for me to have to sit and worry but still on occassion they run late. They usually call or I call them and it, of course, is always a lame excuse for why they are running late. My punishment to this, that seems to work quite well, if they are 15 minutes late their curfew changes the next time they are out to 1/2 hour earlier and so on. Double the time they are late they will need to be home that much earlier on their following outting. This seems to work well because they hate having to be home even earlier than their curfew. Give it a try and if they don't already have a cell phone it is a good investment. Good luck..

Most moms I know is like that, although sometimes kids just say you are exagerating but that's just the way you feel, later your children will know you being that way, so they will learn to at least call you when they are late.

I think it is only natural for a parent to worry when kids are late. I know I stayed up and waited for mine to get home. If they were not going to be on time they knew they were to call and let me know what was going on and it better be a good excuse.

My son don't have to be out late, just not knowing where he is when he say he's going to be somewhere. He loves going to this park by our home and I went over there one day and he was not to be found. I instantly

i do get worried but i have to say those occasions are few and far between ........ i always get a call if they are gonna be late and they always ask permission to do what they want .. i admit, im blessed when it cmoes to thet territory

Often times I would be in bed and sleeping way before the time the kids were to arrive home. For some reason I would wake at the precise time they were to have been home. The blankets would fly and I would sit straight up in bed and gaze at the clock until I heard them come in. Thankfully they didn't come home later than a half hour. I would go downstairs to greet them, kiss and hug them and go back to bed.

You're not alone. And worse yet, if I hear a siren I listen to figure out WHERE they're at and IF that could be the direction my kids are in! I'm so lame! lol I have gotten better... or else the pain meds are better for me as far as stressing out goes? LOL But I think it just proves we're GOOD MUMS! Some parents could care less. I'll take worry warts over care lessers any day!

My mother is still the same way with me and i am 25 no with 2 of my own. I guess it is just mothers intuition to automatically be worried about our children though. I always make sure that if i am somewhere that i always call my mom so that she does not have to worry so much!

i don't have a teenager yet( my son is only 2 1/2) but i'm sure i will be the same way. i always worry about him when i'm not with him. i worry about my husband too when he doesn't answer the cell phone. he's diabetic and one time his blood sugar got really low while he was driving home from work and he hit a mailbox. i think about that a lot. like what if he had hit a person or another car or something like that. he doesn't even remember it. he gets really out of it when that happens. it's really scary.

In this day and time, you can't worry enough about young teens. There's too many of them getting kidnapped or worse. Your children should understand why you worry if not tell them.

I have 2 daughters, they are 16 and 21. I must admit, that years ago, I used to get really worried about the older one being out late at night. She was pretty forgetful too, and I guess she kind of trained me not to worry as much because it happened so often. Now she works late and comes home at all hours of the night anyway (she closes at the restaurant where she works). My younger daughter is very involved in cheerleading, but when she does go out, she's always good about keeping in touch with me. She loves her cell phone I got her for Christmas, and she loves to text message me!! Bonus!! :-) My only advice is to try and not worry so much. Or, better yet, ring her cell off the hook and drive her crazy!! Good luck Mom!! :-)

My kids aren't driving yet, so I don't worry too much. My 15 yr old has a cell phone and knows he'd better have it on and answer it if we call. Our only problem with him being out is when he's on a sports trip and we don't know when he'll be home. But he's done fine with calling on the way back. When the kids are older and at parties or something, I'll expect a call from the person's house phone. That way I'll know exactly where they are, not where they say they are on their cell phone.

don't let them out with out a cell phone or a firefly (a kind of cell phone that is limited to the number of people it connects to).

My mom did the same exact thing when me and my older sister were teens. I have a teen daughter who is on curfew now on account of law enforcement.

Well, I don't have children of that age, but I know my parents worried about me as well. When I was a teenager, My parents made me come home by 11:00 every night, I was late ONCE and My dad locked the door (not the greatest way to go about it.. but I was never late again, because I had to wake them up to get in.. boy was I in trouble!) I know I will be strict with my boy's cerfew, although If I am blessed with a girl, I will problably be more strict on HER than the boys. ( I never understood why my parents were more strict on my sister and I than our brothers until I had my own kids, and thinking about having a little girl, makes me a little worried, there is so much evil out there, you just want to protect them, but if I have one, she'll have 2 big brothers to help!) (: My mother never slept either, always waited up for us.. in fact, even since I've had children of my own, when we go visit, and stay at my folks house, my mom will wait up for me and the hubby to come home if we go out. I guess it's just one of those things, you can't help but worry about your children, regardless of how old they are.

Your topic caught my eye, as I have 2 teenagers. My daughter is 13.5 years, & my step son is 13 years. At this stage we haven't had the "staying out late" thing happen, but I guess when one or both have a drivers license this may occur. I am not sure how we will deal with it? At this stage my daughter seems responsible, is very academic & does competitive swimming. So I can't see her achieving her aims in life if she stays out too late. Both both our kids can be rebellious, aso I am not certain they are going to be worry free. I think I am going to be a worrier when our teenagers get to this stage.

Funny I never knew why my MOM would get so upset when I was running late. But now that I am a MOM of 3 teenagers, I know exactly why she was upset. I'm usually able to reach them on their cell phones, but my oldest son likes to shut his off.

If there is one thing my sister taught me it's that parents freak out when you don't call. I was always out late years ago when I was still a teenager and never called and my mom would always freak out whenever I got home. My sister said to me one day "the trick is to call them first before they call you!" and everytime I'm out late now I give them a call just to let them know. It's not about abiding by rules anymore now, it's more about being considerate and responsible.

I dont have this problem,YET!! I'm sure I will though. I know exzactly how it is though because my mom was the exzact same way and I never thought about it untill I had my daughter. Now I see why she was always ontop of everything I did, who I was with, when I was coming home, etc. She was always telling me everything you do when you have kids you're going to get it 10 times worse. I believe in that now that I have my baby girl. I worry about everything and now is the time I should be sitting back and enjoying life while she is still a baby. I just hope when she does grow up she isnt like that. I know I can hope, wish, and pray but its going to happen. Kids' always think they know the best and they have to learn from there mistakes. I wish I would have went with my mother's instict's. Everything should be fine though you're not a worry wart,they're your babies' and they always will be. With out them you're nothing really. I know how it is now that I have me own. I wish you the best!!