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Unsupervised teens question!?
I was out late last night. I came home to find the two guest teens asleep, but my 15 and 17 year olds were still awake at 1:30 AM. My husband goes to bed very early, leaving them basically unsupervised from 9 PM till 1:30 AM.
The result is a 15 year old with cold symptoms, again, from not getting enough sleep.
They are all basically good kids, but the older one doesn't always get along well with others.
What if they were all awake and doing something they shouldn't? In a month our pool will be open, our liability if another kid gets hurt in our pool is HUGE.
We are in the process of getting a divorce. Amicable and I'm trying hard to be nice and not bash his parenting skills (or lack of..). But one of my big complaints has been his inability to handle the kids. He either over reacts or does nothing, usually because he's asleep.
He has objected to them staying up late, but refuses to see anything wrong with going to sleep and leaving them without supervision.
Opinions?
Once he moves out I can run the house as I see appropriate, but do I gently put my foot down till then.
Lady..., thanks for the answer. I guess I'm so used to parenting the other parent I forget he's a lost cause and just parent my kids. Thanks for the reminder.
3 Answers
- peanut 2Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
A 15 and 17 year old up at 1:30am OMGGG CALL THE POLICE....
Seriously...thats not exactly late.
Cold symptoms are not from a lack of sleep....they are from a virus.
Im not sure if you are serious or not....if you are you need to get that stick out of your **** before you do yourself an injury.
- desmeranLv 79 years ago
it was a sleepover? of course they will go to bed late.
while i would not be okay with kids that age being awake till 1:30 am on a regular basis, i hardly think it's a big deal if it happens occasionally. as far as supervision goes, kids that age are fully capable of being home alone, and are certainly okay being home with a sleeping adult. if they're not, there are more problems than just bedtime.
- ?Lv 49 years ago
They're fifteen and seventeen.. One's old enough to drive and another one will be soon. Tell them they need to go to bed earlier on their own, they're old enough to learn responsibility. He's in the same house there really isn't any reason for him to babysit a couple of teenagers.
I left home at 16, believe me they'll be fine. The seventeen year old is definitely old enough to decide when he/she wants to go to bed.
Edit: Elizabeth.. you're not angry that your husband went to bed with the kids awake. You're just angry at your husband. It's okay to be angry, it's just what you do with it.
