Am I the jerk for leaving my son outside on Christmas Eve night?

I have four children and I'm pretty easy going.

They don't have a lot of rules they have to abide by.

It's simple, be respectful, do your chores, and for the two teenagers 15 to 16 years old,

be back home before 10 p.m.

Well, my 16 year old son came home at 11 p.m. last night when the house was already locked up

after missing about 10 phone calls from me.

He knocked to get in and I just called him back and told him he could sleep in the tree house

and that there were already blankets up there in the tree house and hopefully this would be a

lesson to stick to curfew.

He was apparently on a date with someone whom we haven't met and didn't realize his phone was

set an hour behind. To me, that's all excuses.

I told him he had the rest of the night in the cubby to reset his time and we'd see him in the

morning. I opened the doors at 6 p.m. nice and early and he came in and went to bed,

slept until lunchtime, holding his siblings up from opening their gifts because we all do it

together as a family. He thanked everyone for his gifts and went back to sleep after lunch.

My husband said that I completely overreacted. It was an honest mistake and he's exhausted

from not being able to sleep in the tree house. He would have been able to. It was warm enough,

I put enough bedding up there. Still, my husband says it was a complete jerk move.

So, am I the jerk? I mean, first off, this is a kid. This is not an adult child that is out

and about and they locked him out. This is a kid. It sounds like he didn't even complain about this.

He just came into the house at 6 p.m. and slept and then opened the presents and said thank you

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