Today, do teenage boys or girls still stay home on the weekend?

Not in Los Angles, or Hollywood California they don’t !

Unless, we’re talking about the rich kids that live up in the great Hollywood Hills in their parent’s mansions…. who have pool parties and house parties on the weekends :)

Definitely not, at least where I’m from.

Los Angeles has many great things happening. Lots of restaurants, clubs, dive bars, theaters, yoga centers, music concerts, ballet, the Playboy Jazz festival, so many things….

When I was in high school I didn’t really know anyone that stayed home on the weekends, unless they were either really sick with a flu or other sickness.

I think it depends on the teen, the household, and the city one lives in. Some houses usually wind up being the hang out. Like my girlfriend’s house, especially in the summer, all her son’s friends love to come to their house. She has a pool, which is part of the big appeal. Even when I was a teen back in the 80’s most of us went to the mall or a movie at least part of the weekend. We also went to each others houses. We had pools in our community in the summertime, so we would go to the pool a lot. And, I worked during most of my teen years on the weekends at least a few hours.

@JLeslie – Same here. And in California the beach is always nice and sunny, so we’d go to the beach too.

<—- Teen here.
I almost always stay home during the weekend, partly because my parents are over-protective control freaks, and partly due to my own reasons, which include sleeping the day away and tonnes of homework. I’m a very ‘conscientious’ according to my teachers, so I don’t mind staying on top of my work.

Stay home? What is the alternative? Moving out? Or just going out? Like on a date?

My own teen sometimes goes out to hang out with a friend, downtown, but mostly she stays home. She is disturbingly like the way I was as a teen, and she does not have the excuse of being ugly and socially inept.

Opps, I mean *** Los Angeles, so this is the correction.

I came from the country, so going out meant driving at least 15 minutes. Before I could drive, I would usually spend one weekend night home with my parents, and one at a friend’s house, just hanging out. No parties or dates for me! One parent would stay up super late for them, like 11:30, and drive all of us home so the other parents could go to bed. Once we could drive, I’d still do the same, but just sleep over at the friend’s house, which meant we could driiiiiiink.

My kids stay home part of the time and go out with friends, on dates, or do stuff with family for the rest of the time. When I was a teenager, I was never home, unless it was to sleep.

I stayed home on weekends as did my siblings. We occasionally went out with friends for a while, but returned home by the evening. Sunday was “homework day” because we are were a bunch of procrastinators. But, as an introvert, I prefer to stay in no matter what.

I don’t think this is a new thing. 25 years ago, I was never home on the weekends. I was always at a show or a party. I grew up in Indianapolis—not exactly a mecca hotspot for nightlife.

I stay home a lot of the time.
But I’m a loser. :D

My youngest son (17) works at DQ on the weekends. If he isn’t working he stays home and hangs out or hangs out with friends. Our oldest son (19) comes home every other weekend from college to hang out, eat all of our food and use our washing machine.

I don’t think anything has changed. You have your homebodies and you have your socialites. Looks like I lucked out and have homebodies who avoid trouble. ;)

My son stayed home on the weekends in 9th and 10th grade, but not in 11th or 12th. Now he does :)

The two young teens (13 & 14) I live with both are out a lot of their weekends. They usually spend at least one, sometimes both nights at friends and families houses. Other times they’re home to watch the younger kids (5 & 8) while my sister and brother in law are working.

I tended to adventure around town alot on my weekends, hanging out with myself or friends depending on how I was feeling. Went to shows at the coffee bar/music venue the next town over while it was around. Didn’t have a ton of sleep overs though, but my best friend lived with me for six months when I was a senior in high school, so that was fun!

My grand kids stay at home except when they are at their jobs. One granddaughter is a Life Guard and the other volunteers at an animal shelter. Frankly I never heard of teenagers leaving home for the entire weekend unless it was to go to a properly chaperoned camp. Any other option is ridiculous and probably encouraged by over-indulgent parents. The result will be a sad ending for all concerned.