Mine was 11pm.

Mine was midnight.

By law, people under 18 weren't allowed out after midnight in my small town.

10 during school days
whenever i decided to come home friday and saturday and sunday.

even though i was always told to come back early, friends and i would just go out drinking til 1 or so.

fun times.

my senior year of HS it was 2AM because my dad said "that's when all the drunk drivers are on the road". so i had to be home before 2. it's pretty late but it was actually kind of annoying because i would go to live shows with my friend almost every weekend and they went really late so i would have to make him leave early so i could get home.

i don't remember what my curfew was before my senior year, maybe 11 or 12.

10 pm on school nights, midnight otherwise. When I turned 18, though, my dad's exact words were "You're an adult now. Do what you want." For the first couple weeks, I went a little buck wild, but I realized that sleep was actually pretty important shortly thereafter.

4:30pm!

I was due home immediately after school!

Freshman and sophomore years, I had to be home by midnight. Junior and senior years, I didn't really have a curfew but I had to call my mom to let her know if I was going to be really late.

I wasnt allowed to date in HS, and we lived out in the boonies, so no curfew needed.

My parents were strict!
Depending on my mothers mood it was anywhere before midnight before I was 18.

And when I turned 18 it was usually like 2. Even when I was 20 my parents tried to curfew me! it sucked! hence why I moved out!

Whatever my crazy mother decided for that weekend, ranged from "after dinner" to 11 or midnight- high school social life was miserable for me bc my mum was so nuts and inconsistent (thank you menopause!) . . . unfort I wish I hadn't written about this bc it makes me miserable remembering those crazy high school years with my mom. For my kids I hope there is a way to compromise btwn what is a "safe" time and what lets them have freedom- for me having less freedom caused me to want to "rebel" more and made me do more stupid things in high school than I did in college because I had freedom then. Any suggestions out there for how to find this compromise- I like what mondaymoos said- that seems reasonable.

Omg haha Lovely_1 I feel we went through the same thing! Even when I would go home from college btwn the ages of 19-22 my mum STILL tried to give me a curfew- now at 25yrs old she STILL treats me like I'm 16. My fiance and I were staying at my parents house for a few weeks a year ago and we went out to drink and dance a few times and she tried to tell us when to be home- luckily my dad called her out on not being totally psycho and controlling her grown up children!

Ugh. I have to move in with my family for two weeks while I wait for my new place to finish closing and I'm terrified of this, cmd.

I never had a curfew. My parents never saw the necessity to set a curfew, they trusted me with what I do while out at night. I think most asian parents do not include curfew as part of their parenting...

I went to a boarding school. I think ours was 10:00 for being in our own dorm buildings, and 11:00 for being in our rooms, or something like that.

I had no curfew in high school. As long as I called my mother and let her know where I was I didn't have to be home at any particular time. I also didn't have a bedtime after the age of 9. My mother trusted her children to do what was right and she has always been the voice in my head. We lived in a very small town so their wasn't much to worry about. We didn't even have a lock on our front door. It might not be for everyone but her girls were never in trouble and grew up quite successfully.

I didnt have a curfew. My mom just said, "Come back at a reasonable hour." That always seemed like a trick, because I never knew what she considered unreasonable. I would ask her for a specific time and she would refuse! Gah It drove me so insane I would just stay home. I always felt like I was getting set up to failure and getting in trouble.

Finish thought. A friend of mine had a bedtime until she was 18 and when she moved back after college her parents still enforced it.

You girls think your parents were strict? lol not even!

My curfew was 9 during my 9th grade year. Extended to 10 during my 10th, 11th, & 12th grade years. Maybe 11 if it was the weekend. And my bf lived 30 mins away from my house so I had to leave his house at 1030. Keep in mind I was 18 from March of my junior year... yes an adult my entire senior year and still had an 11 o'clock curfew!!

I get the idea of a curfew, but I hate the whole "You need to come home before you get into trouble" ... um whatever you can do after 12 you can do before!! :eyeroll:

Wow jessy!! That's one thing I never remember having: a strict bedtime.

i never had a curfew. i sort of knew when i could stay out to depending on what was going on at home (their parties) and what was going at school (my exams). then one summer in college i didn't come home all night. after that 2:00 a.m. but i was an adult by then.

My mom was really strict: 9pm when I was in 9th grade, 10pm in 10th, 11pm in 11th, and 12pm in 12th. And now that I'm old and married (27!) when I'm home she still tries to set a curfew. Which I ignore.

And I wasn't allowed to date until I was 16, or even go to school dances. And I'm from a REALLY really small town. So this was really unusual.

I never had a curfew. As long as my parents knew where I was, I could do what I wanted. I never gave them a reason not to trust me.

10pm on school nights, 11pm soph & junior year, midnight senior year. I had a curfew until I was almost 20, then after that they still gave me a hard time about how late I stayed out, I moved out shortly after!

I never had a curfew I just always told my mom what time i would be home and then if things ran late i would just call and let her know

as long as my parents knew where i was, i didn't really have one

the rule was if i was coming home later than 11pm, call

and when i turned 18, it was pretty much the same only with lots more leeway in terms of actually coming in at 1-3am

it's just a respect thing to let them know where you are!

one more thing - if i was a parent, i'd rather know where my kids were but have them come home late rather than know they'd be home by 11:00, but have no idea what they were doing, with who, and couldn't get in touch with them before 11:00...that's way shadier than being informed throughout the night but not seeing them in bed until 1:00am

Mine was 12:30 -1:00 sometimes 1:30.

I didn't have one.

I was overly responsible as a child, so my parents never had to set that rule.

I was in dance, cheerleading, and other clubs...so if I had something with that at night, I would come home right after.

Weekends? I didn't really go anywhere that would keep me out late. I was driving at 16, so if I knew it was going to be a late night I would plan staying at my best-friend's house (who usually lived closer to places we went).

My main concern as a teen was charging the AMEX up before the malls and boutiques closed.

I never had a curfew growing. My parents knew what I was doing and trusted me. I ended up going to a extremely conservative bible college and we had a curfew there of 10 on weeknights and 12 on the weekends. That was hard to get used to.

I never had a curfew! But I was considerate and usually phoned if I was going to be really late. I didn't stay out too late on school nights. My parents were super cool and liberal minded. I love that about them! I never really rebelled too much because I never felt too restricted. My mom always encouraged me to be social because I was pretty shy when I was younger. The other cool thing was, my mom and I were super close, so we actually just communicated a lot and she pretty well knew what I was up to. She is an awesome mom! I hope to be like that when I have kids.

Mine was 11:00 until I was about 16 and 1/2 (lol) then it changed to 12. When I was about 17, they started trusting me with anytime and I had no curfew most of my junior year and all of my senior year.

I never had a curfew in high school. I rarely left the house for social plans, and if I did I was usually back before late. Unless it was a local punk show. Then my parents would make me come how at 11.

Now its the summer after my graduation and I have a boyfriend. My mother always wants me home by 10.

I used to use the tactic that I was staying over a friends house that night. {of course 11th grade} and I would go home around 3am. And Senior Yr I didn't have a curfew because I had a Boyfriend. I dont know my parents were weird. But things will change when I have children

Haha, y'all think that's bad (the bed time one I'll give is worse, but) I went to boarding school. I had to be back at campus by 7:30 on the two time I could leave a week (some people didn't even have that many) and I had three times per nine weeks I could stay out till ten. Had to be in my all girls dorm by 10:30 pm every night. Weekends weren't too bad though, I could stay out till midnight. Oh the joys of boarding school.

I never had a curfew - I wasn't adventurous enough to need one. I think if my parents had set one, it would have been pretty early b/c they're such early-to-bed types. Every time I talk to my mom, she ends the call by saying "It's 9:30, you need to be in bed!" (And I'm 31!) I don't tell her that sometimes I don't get to bed until 1 ... she would be horrified!

violinladyfreak--I disagree! My Asian parents and my friends' were are SUPER strict about curfew. I wasn't allowed out on school nights, and weekends was 10:30 for my first to years and 11 for the last two, unless there was something prearranged like a dance or a movie. I got grounded once my sophomore year for coming in at 10:32!

in high school i was not allowed to date, so that wasn't an issue. my unofficial curfew was 10 or 11 if i went out with friends. of course i didn't have a curfew while i was at college, but after graduating i moved back home and they enforced a curfew of 1am!!!

My curfew was 12am by senior year. My Dad used to say "nothing good ever happens after midnight." LOL.

Mine was 10pm because that is when my parents went to bed. But once I could drive on my own then I no longer had a curfew but the car did. It varied on what I was doing...any where from midnight-2am.

10pm in high school, then midnight

11. and my dad waited up for me. Awww Dad....

Weeknights it was 10-11. Weekends I didn't have one at all but was often told the next day not to stay out until 4 am. I still did anyway.

ugh, I had a bedtime of 9:30/10:00pm till I was 15 and my curfew time was non-existent. Meaning, I had to be home when class and/or work ended. I was allowed to date when I was 17 and my dad would drive my high school bf and I to the movies and such...omg, talk about embarrassing. Now when I visit my parents for a night or two they still restrict what time I have to be home and when/where I go. I'm 22!!!...I'm just glad to find out that I'm not alone in this, lol--oh, and because of this I was like drunk off of freedom when I got to college so I'm definitely going to do things differently with my kids when/if I have them.

My curfew was 11 on weekends and 10 on school nights. Although my mom always had to know where I was going who was goingto be there and there were certain places she wouldn't let me go regardless of what time it was. If I have kids they will have a curfew too because of safety.

I'm locking my teens down (when i have them).

football game ended at 10pm?

ok, be home no later than 10:45pm...i'll call the coach on ya!
Same for the girls. Birth control in orange juice!

no sex, no unwanted grandbabies....Lock Down!

get in bed. go to sleep. go to school. get in good college. get the hell out of my house...mama loves ya.

On school nights it depended where I was but usually around 11pm. On weekends it was 1am.

I hardly ever went out 9th and 10th but in 11th grade once i was driving they wanted me to be home at 11 on weekends, which really sucked. My friend encouraged me rebel a little ( I was such a goody-goody) and 12th grade and i would come at 1:30 or 2, sometimes they noticed sometimes they didn't. I came home at 4 after prom and they freaked wanting to know where i was and what i did. My parents annoy me.

I didn't have one from my parents, and the one mandated by my hometown wasn't enforced very well. My parents trusted me to come home within a reasonable time of the end of whatever event I had attended. I always did.

My parents don't want me out after dark, but usually is 9, 10, or sometimes, but not often 11.