Should there be a curfew for all teenagers?

I can understand why this is being said and thought about and in theory yeah its great all the kids in at 9 Pm no more trouble, in reality its ridiculasm, how is it going to be put in order. If anything it will react against them and the kids will see it as a challenge to stay out. The country goes on about the youth of today, i went to a reunion concert with my band a couple of weeks ago and all the kids there, like me when i was ten would reherse on a saturday morning and give up other free time to play. When is that ever mentioned, the good done by kids its all negative negative negative.

I used to be in a show with the guides, out rehersals were 730 to 9 45, i used to go to guides and then run the guide pack finishing at 9 15, I sailed till gone 9 nearly 10 in the summer, would all these be classed as breaking the curfew, what harm are those youths of the day doing.

If you ask me the british government at the minute have not gome out with one decent suggestion everything in recent weeks have been laughable. I think the'yd struggle running a bath never mind a country.

Rant over, i do apologise!

Also, a lot of the murders took place during the day, not at night time. A curfew would just move ALL stabbings to daytime hours. :(

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Originally Posted by Siobhan

maybe it is a generations thing but I would never have been rude to a policeman ever. They were to be respected.. I feel a lot of kids today have a "don't tell me what to do" attitude and have a lot more rights then We did... You can't smack a child anymore, can't say NO to them.. basically they can do what they want cause the law is fully on their side.

Maybe I am stricter on my kids but Charley is in bed at 8'o clock on a school night and 9 at weekends.. she complains that her friends stay up way later but I don't give in

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See I'm like you Shiv I fI got into trouble as a teenager and a neighbour or police reported me to my mum I got a sore ass for it. As for Marley she is in bed at 9 and she is the same moaning about half the neighbourhood still wandering around. My answer is I'm not half the neighbourhood's mother. I have been mocked for not giving Marley a dummy as a child, or fizzy juice but my motto is I don't believe in giving a child some thing you are going to take away. when we go shopping I have no problems in Marley shoving fizzy pop or bags of sweets into the trolley.

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Originally Posted by Katy

I can understand why this is being said and thought about and in theory yeah its great all the kids in at 9 Pm no more trouble, in reality its ridiculasm, how is it going to be put in order. If anything it will react against them and the kids will see it as a challenge to stay out. The country goes on about the youth of today, i went to a reunion concert with my band a couple of weeks ago and all the kids there, like me when i was ten would reherse on a saturday morning and give up other free time to play. When is that ever mentioned, the good done by kids its all negative negative negative.

I used to be in a show with the guides, out rehersals were 730 to 9 45, i used to go to guides and then run the guide pack finishing at 9 15, I sailed till gone 9 nearly 10 in the summer, would all these be classed as breaking the curfew, what harm are those youths of the day doing.

If you ask me the british government at the minute have not gome out with one decent suggestion everything in recent weeks have been laughable. I think the'yd struggle running a bath never mind a country.

Rant over, i do apologise!

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Marley goes to Judo each week at the moment she is 9 and is in the early class,which finishes at 8pm the teenagers class finish at 9 and those who attend go straight home. In the younger class either parents stay in the community centre like I do or come back and collect them. The young people who are running riot are the ones who's parents are not giving a dam about. As long as they are not annoying them they don't give a toss.