After reading fellow blogger Michele Cheplic’s “Hopefully Never,” I couldn’t help but think about all of the things I would never allow my children to do. And these aren’t even “big” issues like getting on a commercial airplane by themselves.
I’m talking about the “smaller” stuff, the things that sometimes my teens really balk at and can’t understand why. But it doesn’t matter; there are just some things I will never do.
The latest one that has my 12-year-old son very frustrated is that I won’t allow him to go over to a friend’s house from school unless I meet their parents. He thinks it’s just crazy. In his eyes there is no big deal.
I’m sure there has to be other “lame” parents like myself. I can’t possibly be the only one who thinks it’s not a good idea to allow your child to go over to someone’s house you have never met.
Like two months ago when my daughter asked if the new boy she likes from school could come over. He came home with us after school one day. His parents never met me, never even talked to me. They didn’t even know where their son was going because they had no idea where I lived.
The idea that this kid could jump into my car with his parent’s permission yet them having no clue about me was just difficult to wrap my mind around. Since then I have come to know them but the point is that no, I will never allow my children to go to someone’s house without me first meeting the parents.
Call me crazy. Call me strict. Call me over the top. Call me whatever you like. It is only one of my nevers…believe me; my teens have a bunch of others that they can’t understand. But perhaps one day when they have their own children, they finally will.
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