Friday was youngest girlchild's 16th birthday. She had a party at home ......... it kinda woke me up a bit to a couple of things.
One was that I had never realised how good my daughters are, polite, respectful and tidy. The other kids dropped litter on the floor inside and outside my house, spilt drinks and didn't bother mopping up, smoked and put their cigarette butts on the ground, etc, etc. There were 2 people who really helped out and I am grateful to them as we wentut for 2 hours and when we got back there were a lot more people than had been invited and they were kinda overseeing things.
The other thing was the alcohol. We didn't provide any as I wasn't sure what other parents opinions was on the subject and it was impossible to contact them all to discuss. I was surprised at the amount that people brought, it was mainly beer provided by the boys but there was a few bottles of wine and a Malibu bottle amongst the recycling. It seems to be normal, there was no obviously drunk kids so they are probably used to drinking but it surprised me, At least now I know what I am dealing with and hopefully my girls are cautious about alcohol, they don't go out that often with us so if they do drink it only occasionally ........ hopefully not at all but I am taking off my rose coloured spectacles now ...............
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