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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 1460453" data-attributes="member: 1535">I got comped tickets to the Ozzy concert tonight/last night at the BOK from a music industry contact friend of mine but couldnt go so my kid and a friend went and then they were to meet some other friends there. The other kid his mom took them there and then they were supposed to have arranged riding home with the other kids who are from our neighborhood. He's 14. He just now called from WaffleHouse to say that they were only a few miles from home,safe,and were eating before coming home. They had just been out 'riding around'. His momma thankfully went to bed at 10p and I promised her on my life before he left earlier in the evening that her baby would get home safe.  My wife came from a classic sheltered childhood with strict Christian parents who were there all the time and then my upbringing was just the opposite- wide open with a single father who stayed at his body shop working late into the night drinking beer with friends and was basically an almost never home father. The 3 of me and my sibs basically took care of ourselves. I grew up in San Diego and went to alot of rock concerts at 14. Alot of times in LA. The wife not one until she turned 20.Being a rock musician myself Im gone alot and I feel guilty being gone so much so when Im home I end up spoiling the kids. Im constantly straddling the fence between being the 'cool' father,and a friend. I dont want to be a hypocrite but I think maybe tonight it went a little far for a 14 yr old from out here in suburbia to have come home at 4am when the concert was over hours ago. I know theyre bored being home from school almost 2 weeks,but Im feeling like maybe I got punked and used cause he knows I wont tell his mom. I should probably bust him with his mom tomorrow,then she gets to be the bad guy. What to do?</blockquote>

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