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EVERY parent of teenagers will know how former Witney town mayor Chrissie Curry feels after laying on two Friday night gigs in the town, and finding hardly anyone turning up.

They tell you they are bored, and there's nothing to do and, when you organise something, they don't seem to want to know. What can you do?

The only answer is, of course, to involve them. Teenagers are not young children dependent on and prepared to go along with what their parents provide for them.

They might not be old enough to take full responsibility for the cost and organisation of what they want, but they certainly want a good time and can usually take on a challenge.

Ms Curry's intention was good, but in retrospect, it looks as if the gigs were organised in haste. The first one clashed with another regular Friday night disco at the town youth centre - a mistake that should have been foreseen - while last Friday's was put in the calendar before the setting up of a town youth council.

Some teenagers have said they did not see publicity for the events, while others no doubt felt going along was a thing they were supposed to do, a sure way of getting the opposite reaction.

There's every chance they will change their minds, though, when teenagers themselves actually get involved in organisation through the new youth council. After all, they are all young bands playing and the ticket cost is reasonable.

3:43pm Tuesday 13th May 2008

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