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Teenage parties Top tips for Teenage Parties 1. Do them – they are fun. 2. Your teen should learn something from it – budgeting, etiquette (such as it is these days), anticipating problems, learning from mistakes. Organising an event is a useful skill, from college thrashes, to weddings, dinner parties and beyond 3. Throwing a really great party is a huge confidence boost for your teenage son or daughter. 4. Be there, visible and friendly. It is your home or you have hired the venue. You are as much host as your son/daughter. 5. Be involved - share the planning and organisation with your teenager. But make sure your teen understands that they are to take some responsibility for their friends’ behaviour. 6. Plan ahead – teenagers love to make last minute party arrangements on Facebook. Don’t let parties happen that way. Say “Yes, but next week, not tonight” 7. Get your teen to show you a guest list and issue proper invitations with a start and finish time. 8. Ask your teenager to take notes round to neighbours warning of noise and promising that any noise will stop at midnight/11 pm or whatever you have agreed. 9. Provide food – lots of it and at regular intervals through the night. Sausage rolls, pizza, chicken wings. Chocolate fountain is fun too. This is your excuse to emerge from the kitchen, hand round food and chat to the kids. As the evening goes on they usually drift in to have a chat with you. As always with teens, keep communications open at all times. 10. Provide bins and let your teen know that you expect his/her guest to tidy up before they go 11. Ideally have the party in the garden – provide seating, lighting and rugs if possible 12. Big scary thing about teen parties is the alcohol. All parents have different attitudes – you have to do what you think is right. 13. However, they will bring alcohol if they can and anyone who wants to drink too much usually succeeds. Just like grown ups. This is why it is important to manage the party, anticipate trouble, get your teen onside, and sort out problems that arise. No point alienating everyone. And fill them with food! 14. If you are providing alcohol you should ration it. One way is to give everyone vouchers on arrival which can be exchanged for a drink. Although there will be some trading you are ensuring there isn’t too much circulating – though you will need to frisk arrivals for smuggled booze. Alternatively provide a glass of mildly alcoholic punch on arrival and then a strictly rationed 1 can of beer, alcopop each later in the evening. 15. Gatecrashers. It is your home – if you don’t want gatecrashers, make the party “invitation only” and man the door welcoming the invited guests. Some hosts take names and phone numbers of parents. If you are using an outside venue, choose one away from where you and your teens' friends live so that gatecrashers will be deterred by the distance. |
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