Last night got up at 3am to get a drink of water. Out of habit always do a quick check of kids(13 and 14yrs old) found son 'C' not in bed.  He had pulled covers up over pillow and large teddy to make it look like he was in the bed.  Checked all over house, he was nowhere to be found.  Phoned and texted him a few times and got no reply.  My husbands away overseas for work.  After 20 minutes I had not heard from C so I phoned the police.  Short story, he turned up at 4.30am and said he had felt sick and had gone for a walk and had fallen asleep in a lane way not far from our house.(It was 3 degrees outside, not exactly the type of weather where you sit down and fall assleep!  He had his phone on him and wanted to know what the problem was!!! Really!! Police turned up and had a gentle word to him.  C was very angry at me for calling police. This is the third time he has done this(that we know of in the past 7 weeks).  The last two times we discovered him missing at about midnight and he answered straight away within 15 minutes.  We have tried to explain that this behaviour is not safe.  We live in a safe, quiet suburb but wandering around in the middle of the night is not on. He is very withdrawn, moody, lives in his bedroom and on his phone.  I just jioned this forum as I dont know what to do. I read the article by Maggie Dent- "Dear Mums of smelly boys",  What she describes in that article is  my young man all over.  Did I over react calling the police??   Any time we try to connect with him just results in arguements.     ... View more