I'm sorry sorhors, but I have to vent.
My little sister is staying the summer with me and she is 13, now I remeber being 13 in my mothers home and I really do think she was a little over-protective (but I guess she was doing what she thought was right) so I decided that I would let my sister have a little more freedom then she does at home. I let her actually stay out side until 10:30 as long as she is somewere around my apartment complex and I actually let her stay out longer if she is in the front of the building or if she is in her friends house. I also let her have phone calls to 12:00.
Now, in my mothers house we were in the house by the time the street lights came on and phone calls were a priviledge after 9:00 (and that's only if she was awake)
The kids across the hall have no parental supervision it seems like, beacuse when I am going out to work at midnight they are still outside and when I go to the club or somethin and I am coming home at 3 or 4 they are still sitting in the front or in the hall (and they are basically my sisters age)
I am not going to back down off my rules because I think I am being lenient enough, but really have times changed that much and I just happen to be mothers child so I am acting as overprotective as she was to me?
I don't wnat her to be "punished" while others are out having fun, but I just don't believe a 13 year old should have any business outside late at night without direct adult supervision.
Can someone give me some constructive advise?
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[This message has been edited by blu_theatrics (edited June 26, 2001).]