How old is your daughter?

My sister is 12, almost 13, and already acting like a teenager. I think her friends really influence the way she dresses and acts though. It's scary! I'm really afraid that she'll end up like a lot of other teenagers...

Have you tried talking to your daughter? Just, sitting her down and trying to understand her point of view, what she was thinking and stuff. She said she didn't do any of those three things, but then what WAS she doing if not those? I mean, if she just wanted to hang out with her friend, couldn't she just have waited until the next morning, instead of sneaking out in the middle of the night?
Does your daughter have a cell phone? (If not, it might be a good idea to consider getting one for her, and make sure that she always carries it with her, so that if you need to contact her, you can just call her)

I have never done anything like that. A) I never had any friends that were like that, and B) I'm just not interested. My last year of high school, I did go out with a few friends, but I had my cell phone with me and my mom knew where I was, and all we ever did was watch movies and play video games and stuff LOL! Okay, so maybe I'm a bit of a dork , but at least my mom knows that she can trust me. She knows that I can take care of myself, and I'm the kind of person that is EXTREMELY stubborn. Since I'm 100% against drinking (grew up with an alcoholic stepfather, so I got to see every day (and still do) what alcohol does to people), smoking, drugs, etc etc, good luck trying to get me to do any of those 'cause I ain't gonna budge! I'm 18 and I have still never been to any big parties or done anything wild or anything, and I have NEVER snuck out of the house to go somewhere in the middle of the night.

Explaining teenagers may be somewhat difficult as every person is different. But, let me try. I guess it's just that some people are in a hurry to grow up. They've fallen into society's trap, so to speak. By this, I mean, society seems to want people to be a certain way. For teenagers, it means that they have to fit in, they have to be cool, they have to, I guess, be somebody. If they don't fit in and do "cool things", then they're looked down upon, sometimes as losers, geeks, and whatever else. You have to dress a certain way, talk a certain way, act a certain way, in order to be accepted by your peers. I consider myself lucky to learn that that is not necessarily the case. I tried to fit in when I was younger, but it never worked, and the harder I tried, the harder I fell, so I just gave up and became my own person. I said to myself, "Screw what everyone else thinks." I decided to live my own life my way, NOT the way my peers or society wants me to live it. If my friends don't like the way I dress or if they don't respect me for who I am, then maybe they're not really my friends, and so then I'll find friends that WILL accept the way I am. Ok, maybe I'm kind of getting off the subject now.. LOL I'll stop blabbing..

Like Kay said, I'm glad she got caught, and I hope she learned her lesson! Hopefully she will think twice before doing it again (and hopefully there won't be another time!).