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The other nasty part, which hits me in the pocketbook, is her friends don’t live around the corner. They live about 10-15 minutes away by car. So, with the price of gas at an all time high, putting on the extra kilometres is not something I am thrilled with...but, she is my daughter! Invariably, once she gets herself showered, creamed, makeupped, styled and dressed, she makes her way downstairs and tells me to hurry because she is ready; her highness is now ready for the hired help to whisk her to her night of socializing. This is when the conversation shifts to curfew. Yes, the dreaded curfew. The witching hour when tired parents wait up to make sure their kids get home safely and the hour which kids aren’t quite ready to come home because they are having too much fun with their friends and because they would look like a loser if they were the first one to say they have to leave. More times than not, I usually collect my daughter from wherever she is so the time of night that we determine is her curfew is driven mostly by what time I would like to go to bed. When this discussion first started (once she became more settled in the social network of her high school), she started throwing out hours of the day for curfew that took me back to when I was much younger and had more stamina to stay up late (1:00 am). Usually the conversation didn’t go very far because I selfishly refused to force myself to stay up until that hour and also because, well...she is only 14. While she professes to be cool, hip and “in the know”...she is hardly in the know but has a handful of friends who think they are “worldly”, so she puts trust in them. I have brought my daughter back down to earth since, by telling her that I will get her between 11:30 and 11:45. Yes, she bitches and moans and always accuses me of being there too early. I remind her that I am like clockwork...I arrive on time...not a minute earlier. Daddy Blogger| Stephen Gosewich is an aspiring “Enlightened Male”. He spends his weekdays as a commercial real estate professional, living and working in Toronto. At all other times, he is a husband to his wonderfully supportive wife and father to his two very active and inspiring daughters. He enjoys family time, pop culture and when not dealing with one injury or another, spinning up a storm or perfecting his downward dog.
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Steve has had a blog posted on The “Good Men Project” in their “Dad’s Good” section. Check it out: http://dads.goodmenproject.com/2011/04/22/over-the-hill-before-you-know-it/and was a blogger for several other parent-based blogs. You can read his blogs at www.theenlightenedmale.wordpress.com
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