catswhiskers
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If you had made plans with your son, to drive home from town to pick him up and take him to his friends house, and you returned home and he was gone, would you assume it was fine? I wouldn't. My kids needed to tell me where they were going at that age. Cross that out--they needed to ASK me.
ETA: I just saw your after post, where you said that actually, you never returned home to find oner of your sons gone. So the original post, they they don't leave notes, is kind of irrelevant to this particular sitiuation, imo.
BBM well thanks for that - but there was a little more context to my post that was part of a conversation of sorts. IMO pretty well every parent on these threads has dropped in a little anecdote or two about their own children or parenting, which I think is always relevant since we are mostly guessing about how Dylan would behave when not at home in the company of his mum.
So, undaunted by comments about irrelevance ... I will once again state that I would fall over backwards if I ever found a note of any description written to me by one of my teenage sons. No, they haven't yet decided to take off somewhere in my absence, but I am not naive enough to claim that will never happen in the future. Given that whenever I need a pen or paper and ask for help in finding said writing materials - both my boys will throw their hands up and clear the room claiming no knowledge of such useless items, so I can pretty safely say that reaching for a pen and paper for note writing would not come naturally to them. Obviously I should start educating them on this subject in readiness for the day when they decide to go it alone and not wait for their private taxi service (moi) to get home.
:moo: Scroll and roll I say - the wheel on my mouse is my friend