Colleen27
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
Not too many of DS's buddies had licenses or vehicles during their highschool years. There were lots of weekends up to and including Grade 12 where they'd all hole-up at somebody's house for all-night gaming sessions and take their own sleeping bags to crash on the rec room floor. One home in particular was set up perfectly for it and that boy's Mom was the queen of pancake breakfasts!
Same here. Kids in our community mostly don't get cars until they can pay for them themselves and with highest-in-the-country insurance rates, that's not usually while they're still in high school. So hanging out later than parents are willing to drive means staying the night. My son is 19 and has the "gamer den" in his circle of friends - two Xboxes, two laptops, and a spare monitor for hooking up someone else's system if they bring it. That room also has a twin-sized loft bed and two very comfortable sofas, so we often have spare kids crashing here after gaming late into the night, especially in the winter (one friend has a really cool space in a pole barn, so they're there a lot during the summer but it is too hard to heat in the winter). My daughter, at 16, has all-night movie marathons and friends over to crash after school dances, concerts, and away softball games on a pretty regular basis too. We're fortunate in that they would both rather have friends here than go elsewhere so we don't have to worry too much about what other parents allow, but sleepovers are still very common at both their ages.