Thursday night my fifteen-year-old called his girlfriend at 9:30pm. They talked for a few minutes and by 10:00pm he was in bed.
At 2am his cell phone rang. It was his girlfriend’s mother. She told my son, “I would appreciate it if you don’t call my daughter after 9pm.” My son was apologetic and said he didn’t realize she had a phone curfew but he would only call before 9pm from then on.
Does anybody else see the irony in a grown woman calling a fifteen-year-old boy at two o’clock in the morning (on a school night no less) to tell him not to call her house after 9pm?
I just found out about this today. And I was fuming when I heard. I have a couple of issues with this woman’s approach. (1) You don’t call a fifteen-year-old kid at 2am. My husband’s first thought was that she is a drinker and had just gotten home from the bar when she called. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that maybe she has a second shift job, but either way it’s highly inappropriate to be calling your daughter’s teenage boyfriend at 2am. 2am calls are reserved for emergencies and booty calls, neither of which apply to my son at this point in his life. (2) If her daughter has a phone curfew she needs to take that up with her daughter who would then pass that information on to her boyfriend (my son). They’ve only been dating for about a week. This woman doesn’t even know my son. If he knew she had a curfew he would not call that late. He’s not perfect, but he is respectful (well at least to people who aren’t his parents ;)).
If I was petty and immature I would call her at 3am on Sunday night/Monday morning and tell her I don’t appreciate her calling my son at 2am. Luckily I’m a responsible adult and will not stoop that low. But it doesn’t mean I won’t blog about her.
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