Your rules and regulations are beyond ridiculous.
well, nothing happens around here after 10 except drinking in the woods. Everything closes at 9 pm. We will make a weekend exception if it is a movie or something that doesn't end by then but she thinks that 1 am is decent for a 16 yr old. I didn't even have a 1 am curfew when I was out of high school.
When she does get a phone. she will have responsibilities with that as well. Leave it downstairs after 9 pm and respond to every call that she gets form family, no ignoring like she does now. We have expectations of her as part of our family and want her to know that. 16, 17, 18, it does not matter how old she is, some things are just not an option.
I would rethink having her move in. Your rules and regulations are beyond ridiculous.
Having no phone and no texting while at your home is going to be *killer* for a 16yo. I'm sure there are 16yos out there who do not text but I do not know of any. Even my DH texts. lol
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DSD16 is moving in with us within the next week or so. we live about an hour from where she goes to school now. While she was here this weekend on visitation, she spoke of how she plans on going back to her old town just about every weekend and whenever she is not working. (She does not have a job yet but needs/wants one so she can pay for her car and insurance and stuff.) I reminded her that we do family things some weekends and she responded that she knows and she always misses it. (cuz it wasn't her weekend when event was happening or she chose not to come) She is already upset some about the move, the changes in bedtime and that she will have to be up more than a half hour before the bus comes since she will be sharing a bathroom here with DD13 in the mornings. She was very put out by that. She also doesn't like that I told her that I expect her to eat something for breakfast instead of the nothing she eats now at her moms.
I asked her about Halloween, whether she will be ToTing with us or wanted to stay home and hand out candy. (I'm trying to plan a costume if she needs one) She told me that she is sure that she has a couple of Halloween parties to go to and she had plans with her friend from current school. With Halloween on a Sunday night, I told her it would depend since she has school the next day. She responded with the fact that she has a 1 am curfew anyways with her license. I told her I didn't think so and I'm sure her curfew would be much earlier than that on a school night. She will have a9:30 bedtime on school nights and 10:30 on Fri/Sat and have to be home by at least 10 if not earlier since she did JUST get her license and snow will be coming soon and black ice even earlier.
Almost everything will be changing for her, school, rules, location (she lives in city with everything 5 minutes from her, here it is 20 minutes to grocery store further for everything else) and class size. our high school is 1/3 if not 1/4 the size her of her current school. I think she thinks that she will still have the freedoms that she was given at her moms. She isn't realizing that we have structure and rules and expect things other than doing your school work. She also noted yesterday that she planned on buying a laptop when she had enough money (with a car that needs repairs and insurance and all, I don't think it will be for a while anyways.) I know she doesn't realize that even if she bought it, she would not be allowed to use it upstairs and that her father and I would have full access to it to see what she is doing online. Also, if she wants to keep her Facebook, we need the password for random checks. (we are already friends with her but I know that you can hide certain things from who you don't want to see them) We have a family computer readily available and out in the open. When I told her she would be using that one, she flinched.
DH and I need some advice on how to handle this. Going out on a school night late is a definite no. It is an hour away to boot. If she isn't working and we have something family thing going on, then we expect her to participate , not go to her old town. her friends are welcome up here any time within reason and with permission gotten beforehand.
We will be writing down rules for her when she gets here and officially moves in. We want her to know what we expect of her in this house but know that we will come across things we have not had to deal with before. I think the second hardest thing for her will be that she will be without a cell phone for a while. She has had one since she was 11 or so, but her service does not work up here.
It will be a big change for everyone in the house.