age you would let your kids go on holiday alone?

Situation with our 16 year old has reached impasse, as in:

"Me'n'Emma'n'Emily have decided to go to France for our holidays'
"$%^@**?"
"Well...erm...OK...Cornwall, then"
"@<***%£$"
Stony silence
"Why don't you go youth hostelling up on Teesdale?"
"@&?%$£@@"

18....and not a day before

And even then i'll be worried sick!

i'd say the day for a kid to go on holiday alone is the day they can afford to pay for it themselves.

I can't believe you use that language in front of your children........ no wonder they've picked it up................

i'm intellectual beyond my years, I'll have you know

So glad i have 2 boys-

recently whilst booking my cruise in the travel agents next to WH Smith i was sat next to a group of 8 18 year old lasses-all stunnas by the way- and they were making it quite clear why they were going to Ibiza and what they were getting when they got there.

The look on the travel agents face (just a young lad) said it all :sweet:

if you're whinging about your kids going on holiday too young, and are then asked who's paying for it, you'd look a bit daft saying "I am" wouldn't you

I'd go with 16!!!! :sweet:

Kids are much more streetwise these days....not sure that's a good thing like!!!!

But yeah 16....only if it was Redcar for a weekend in a Caravan!!!!

Ibiza....I wouldn't shit on the place!!!!

sad thing is it is a different world to your 16 mutt

Mmmmmmmmmm.............................Keira Knightley!!!

Did you make a note of the dates and hotel ? It's just that Ive got a few days holiday due and ermmm.............

16? no chance in hell!

Even at 18 I would be dead against it but would not be able to stop it. Mind you, I'm not mad keen on her going out alone until shes 30, and even then she'll have to be in before 10.

[quote="Mick Tait's Head Bandage"]Mmmmmmmmmm.............................Keira Knightley!!!


She could do with a decent Sunday Dinner inside of her!!!! :sweet:

I hate skinny not nice people....like feeling a broken bottle!!!!

She could do with a bit of ME inside of her!

No, I agree, there's no chance of our letting her go anywhere on her own at 16, I was just thinking ahead.

the day after they get their mobile phone - ie 35

i dont know went to lakes when 18, butlins when i was 19,spain 21, i'd let em go if it feels right

I couldn't do a bird with smaller tits than I've got

daughter is 21 on monday she is off to majorca with 3 mates in july as a present mind it is to herself i wasnt bloody paying

At LEAST 18

And only then if accompanied by a 6'4" 18 stone man hating eunuch as a chaperone

This is why I'm glad I've got three lads. The old saying is that lads can get girls into trouble, and girls have to live with the consquences.

I was in the RAF at 17, and was responsible for anything I did, so I need my lads to be responsible for anything they get up to. If they can pay for their holidays, they have to be responsible for what they get up to on those holidays.

I've had her.

I'm not sure I would want to have her. I would probably snap her in half.

Sorry Mr I but i made up the Ibiza bit in case any of the dads were on here-i'm having to change my hols like :sweet:

Long as you got the right half though eh??

How's the head this morning, you and me were doing the graveyard shift this morning!!

The heads OK, but the stomach isn't , or at least thats what I said when I phoned in sick.

Ah the famous British sickie!!

I never needed them when I worked from home!!