New THought....

and maybe a new favorate... hmm what to call these...
It kinda goes along with my "we reward ourselves by killing ourselves" idea....

You have a child that you love and want to protect.
The child grows up, and you set in place a "reasonable" curfew. Lets say, 10 on school nights, and 1AM on weekends.
In my mind, thats fairly lenient. Or it was, untill a picture of reality hit me and I realized exactly how insane the basic logic behind that thought is so amazingly flawed, it isnt even funny.

Most crimes, most abductions, most muggings, rapes, accidents....
Happen on the weekend.

When we happily let our children stay out later and later. No worries.

Weeknights, are relitively quiet and calm.
This is when we tell our children that they must be home early. Or else.
we wouldnt want anything *bad* to happen to them on the way home from soccer practice on a wednesday night, now would we?
But leaving the rock concert with a bunch of thier friends at 2AM on a friday is perfectly safe.

Does this make sense to you?

My children will hate me, but I am extraordinarily tempted to tell Eva and Jade, that on weeknights, thier curfew is midnight.
on Weekends, its 8PM.
deal with it.

of course, the truth is, I wont most likely ever give my kids a curfew.
Unless they stop going to school, or are routinely late for it, they can stay up as late as they would like
and as long as I know where they are, they can go pretty much wherever they like

Because the reason why there is less crime on weeknights, is because no one manages long, running wild hours. Particularly not teenagers who need a lot of sleep. And still holding things together for school and work.

Weekends we go a bit wild, because there *is* no such barrier to our supposed fun.
and if that were any different, then of course - it would be more dangerous on weeknights. but, this *is* the way the world is, and so
I say - school nights, let them out late.
Weekends, have thier asses "and any friends they want to have in lockdown with them" in the house, or at least on the property within sight, by 9PM.

Yes your child will hate you for it.
But you would hate to see tier brians smushed out all over the roadside too, wouldnt you?