16 year olds staying in hostel

elisamoose

my daughter and her friend saved up their baby sitting money and booked flights and hotel in Paris for a post gcse trip. they spent 4days eating out,seeing the sights etc and organized the whole thing themselves! she has always been the sensible one ! This was about 9 years ago so not back in the dark ages.

Spendless

Do you know the other girls parents to ring and ask? Mine are a lot younger but apparantly everyone elses mum buys their children more things, sends them to bed later and tells them off less often than I do.

elisamoose wrote: »

my daughter and her friend saved up their baby sitting money and booked flights and hotel in Paris for a post gcse trip. they spent 4days eating out,seeing the sights etc and organized the whole thing themselves! she has always been the sensible one ! This was about 9 years ago so not back in the dark ages.

I did wonder if we are talking about a yr11 16yo or one that is over compulsory school leaving age. Certainly I got more freedom after I had 'left' school.

cookie54

it might be worth speaking to the other parents as a friends son led her to believe that they were going away with someone else parents and they weren't they were going by themselves .

Also will the hostel allow a group of under 18's to stay as a some don't

vixarooni

I'm 24, i wouldn't let a 16 year old of mine do it!! 16 is really young, and no doubt they probably want to go to Brighton and get drunk? What draw is there to go to a british coastal town for a 16 year old? They're hardly going to be into fine dining!

If they're in a hostel i would worry about hygiene...and the kind of people who are staying there. They might be ok, but someone like Dave101t might be sniffing about.

vesper

It rather depends on how mature you think she is and the other girls she is going with. I would ring up the other girls' parents and speak to them about setting the girls some ground rules. And do some research into the hostel and the local area, it will give you an idea of what they could get up to,
Me and 5 other friends went camping for 10 days when we were 16. One of the rules was that we had to ring one of our parents everynight just so someone knew we were ok (wasn't that easy either as we didn't have mobiles then and had to walk 3 miles every day to the nearest pay phone).

Sambucus_Nigra

They probably want the parents to stump up the £ for a hotel. Shock tactics.

jamespir

shes 16 she could move out and live on her own if she so wished sorry to be blunt but you have to stop treating her like a kid

Running_Horse

Sooner or later your daughter is going to have sex.

Frogletina

Emmzi wrote: »

In Scotland at 16 I could be married without parental permission.

I was married at 16 in England without parental consent, I was given consent by the courts

lost_soul_78

Do you know the other girls parents? if not insist you have a number and phone them do a snidy what is your daughter taking (just to establish they are going) My eldest is just hitting 16 would not be to happy because it would cause me worry.If all the parents were aware though I would allow life experience and all that.