Shopping mall restrictions on teenagers.

I like this new rules. Kids can go home earlier and have dinner with the family for a change. Not only that, they can spend more time studying than hanging out with their friends! Fantastic idea, whoever came up with it. But think the execution will be difficult to do. How do you know if the group of kids are below 18? A lot of teenagers nowadays dress like adults with piles of gunk on their face. SO unless you are given an id or bracelet upon entering the mall to signify your age, then there won't be any way of telling those who are underage to the regular mall shoppers.

Wow, teens hanging out at the mall must be a huge problem where you live. I hardly ever go to the mall, but when I do, I only see a few teens hanging out here and there, not a whole lot. Most of them are at the food court or the arcade and I've never heard of a lot of problems. I work at the library and we have more problems with teens there than at our malls. I agree with you in that I think this rule is useless because people are going to do whatever they feel like anyway. Mall security will just have more work to do monitoring the teens and quizzing them on where their adult chaperon is.

Thats a good rule, it is too bad that the "good" teenagers are being punished because of a few that like to cause trouble. If the mall lets the teenagers run the mall, the real customers will leave. I have seen it happen in my town, if teens are causing troubles people will stay away. The mall is a fun place to hang out, its a shame that a few hoodlums have to spoil it for the "good" kids that don't cause any trouble. BTW, thanks for the best responses. Its always nice seeing you.

They did that where I live probably 4 or 5 years ago. The place was over run with kids on weekend evening. It is much better now, there are not gangs of kids hanging out and blocking the aisles.

I think that it is a pretty stupid idea (sorry don't mean to offend). I don't know how bad it is where you are, and what your mall is like. But here the mall IS a very well known hangout for teens. They like to go there and eat at the food court, while hanging out. Now there are the occassion punks here, but the mall always has security gaurds/cops working around the clock. But the teens here never really cause such a problem to call for such a ban! I think this ban really inconveinces a lot of people. teens love the mall, parents don't tend to. No parent is going to want to go to the mall just because their kid wants to. Plus kids aren't gonna want to be seen walking around with their parents, being watched like a baby! Less people are going to be at the mall during the weekend, and stores will lose money. It's a really bad idea to me.

I think it is a good law. I mean if they "hang out-ers" are causing so much problem that the mall is having to institute this law, apparently it is necesary. They dont want to allienate shoppers but at the same time want to make it nice for shoppers and stop illegal goings=on. I used to go to a mall and was rather worried about some of hte people "hanging around". Granted all people look different and just cause they dress differnet, makes no difference to me, but when they are causing problems, I don't feel safe and will not go to the mall so the mall looses shoppers. If everyone shapes up, they won't need this law. Wish they'd do it at malls close to me!

In one way this makes sense, but in another way, I've met a lot of crazy people over the age of 18 too. Who knows? Wha I really think needs to be done is that parents need to raise their kids better, so that they do't at this way in the first placee, causing such a band to e enaced.

it's useless the best solution is to provide proper education and taking care of the bondings in the family. if you start banning something, it may encourage more outlaw actions appearing.

kgwat70 yes I think that is an excellent rule to ban teens'from being at the mall unless accompanied by an adult for five til closing and it should be in effect all over the USA. the kids'do not belong there and a whole gang can get into serious trouble that way. food fight thats dreadful.

I don't know, this sounds a little elitist to me. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with meeting up with friends at the mall. I don't agree with destructive or callous behavior being exhibited by anyone. But, I think that maybe different measures could have been taken. Such as, utilizing security to reprimand those that don't follow the rules of the mall. I wonder if the businesses were consulted before this rule was implemented. I'm sure a good part of their business is due to teenagers. And, even if the teens don't buy anything on one particular day, it doesn't mean that they won't return to buy something that they previously saw on another day. Many allowances are spent at the mall. Not to mantion that many of these teens go on to become employed at the mall. I would try to come up with other methods to address the issue. Or, at least, move the ban to a later hour. If you are a teen who gets out of school at 3 pm on Friday and you need to catch a bus, walk or whatever to the mall to get that shirt you've been eyeing, to wear to an event on Saturday ... you've only got two hours to get to the mall, get the item, and get out.

Wow!! I hope known malls here in the Phillipinees should do the same.. Because some students are making the mall as their hangout and some other are committing cutting classes just to go to the mall and meet with friends.. I think that rules are a good favor to the parents who spends lots of money sending their children to school but then their ever loved children are doing nothing but hitting the mall..

I think its a wonderful idea. I wish the one I used to go to would have done this. It reached the point at that mall where you didn't feel safe entering it or leaving with packages. Some of them were loud, rude, and obnoxious. They would taunt you, knock your packages out of your hands and race around you on bikes or skateboards. Inside the mall wasn't much better with their running, yelling and screaming. Even here in my new town all we have is WalMart and the kids after school there run wild like they would at those malls. Trying to grocery shop and you find kids sprawled out in an aisle reading books, chatting and here you are trying to push carts around them. I finally complained about it and notice it seems to have improved.

Hello kgwat70, Food fight? that is disgusting, yes they should ban teens from all these shooping malls and else where, we have polide patrolling all areas aroun here so we don't have any problems, it used to be bad with drinking in the streets now it banned so we don't any trouble. I hope the will do something like that where you are. Tamarafireheart.

i think that this ban is useless because either way the kids are still going to most likely hangout there after the hours there not supposed to because they dont care about the rules i think this rule is good in one way by keeping the mall more peaceful but come on there teenagers what else are you going to expect and i agree with the person who works at the library where i live lots of kids always get into fights with other people or talk really loud and run around the library and when one of the ladies go over to them to ask them to be quiet they talk back to them and call them names i think its really immature. so idk . but o think this rule is useless.

I can understand being a ban during school hours and I remember back in the '80s there were bans at arcades during school hours... but during times outside school... I don't think that is right and I don't think that is going to solve the underlying problem. If parents took control of their kids to begin with we wouldn't have the problems we are having and that is why we have over 1000 teens fighting in a food court. Gotta side with you on this one. Thanks Zelo

It's hard to say. We don't really have those kind of problems where I live....it's hard to imagine a rule like that. I guess it depends on what's been going on. I think the mall's business may go down, though...but you never know.

I think it is a very good idea for the mall to have. Teens are so rude these days. They act like a bunch of wild animals and they do not have respect for anything or anyone. I am glad that the mall is doing something about it. there are other places for teens to hang out, especially if they are not shopping.

I think it is a good idea. Some teenagers are just big kids and often worse than the little ones. It is also for their own protection. Even the responsible ones can get caught up in the antics of the others.

I was never a mall rat, lol. I hated going there if I didn't have anything to buy. And I still hate going to the mall. The teens are really annoying and ignorant. I've seen fights start as parents with young kids are trying to dodge the crowds. It's upsetting. At my mall they added a 'no hanging around' policy, lol. I'm glad that more malls are doing this.

Hi, I totally agree with the ban your mall has. I wish they would do the same at our local mall. I hate going there on Friday and Saturday nights because it does seem to be a hang out for the local teens. They are always bumping into you and don't watch where they are going. Not to mention how rude they are. I agree that the ban should apply to all nights of the week, however, weekends are probably the prime times for the teen groupies.