To all the parents out there

[ItzKatzTime]

I love it that we have support and give/take advise from the pool of Sowal parenting wisdom. The teen years are starting to scare me a bit. I think I'm going to start a dating advise thread soon. I wasn't allowed to date until I was 16 but I know times are so different now. I didn't even go through puberty until early HS.:shock: sorry tmi?

tmi.....DATING?.....Did I hear the word dating? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO OL you can't say the "D" word??????

 

[Ocean Lover]

tmi.....DATING?.....Did I hear the word dating? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO OL you can't say the "D" word??????

Kat, I've seen pics...be ready..you have a knock out on your hands. ;-) :shock:

 

[Cheering472]

tmi.....DATING?.....Did I hear the word dating? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO OL you can't say the "D" word??????

I hear ya. Dating was the worst
Today I think, judging from Dateline, the really scary thing is the internet.

I'd go to bed nightly saying...
Thank you God that I didn't have to hurt a pediphile today

 

[Cheering472]

Kat, I've seen pics...be ready..you have a knock out on your hands. ;-) :shock:

Pot, meet kettle You both need to lock them up until they are 18.

 

[kathydwells]

I hear ya. Dating was the worst
Today I think, judging from Dateline, the really scary thing is the internet.

I'd go to bed nightly saying...
Thank you God that I didn't have to hurt a pediphile today

I know what you mean. I for one would be rotting in jail and the pediphile would be 6 feet under!!!!!

Now, about that dating thing. I have girls calling my house at all hours of the day and night. I have intercepted a few of the calls and told them 9:00 is the last call of the night, and if the phone rings past this time that her number would be blocked from my house never to be heard from again. Some of them have headed the warning, some not. I remember I couldn't even call a guy until I was in high school. These girls have been calling since 2nd grade....I know that this is fixing to change though. For the most part, when they called, Jesse would tell me to tell them he couldn't talk..in reality, he just didn't want too. Oh, boy not anymore. The phone rings and he comes running.....I know it will just get worse. He and I do have long conversations about the dating and all that goes along with it. Thank goodness for this here support system called SoWal, I think I am going to need it. Alot in the next few years!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ocean Lover]

Pot, meet kettle You both need to lock them up until they are 18.

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[Ocean Lover]

I know what you mean. I for one would be rotting in jail and the pediphile would be 6 feet under!!!!!

Now, about that dating thing. I have girls calling my house at all hours of the day and night. I have intercepted a few of the calls and told them 9:00 is the last call of the night, and if the phone rings past this time that her number would be blocked from my house never to be heard from again. Some of them have headed the warning, some not. I remember I couldn't even call a guy until I was in high school. These girls have been calling since 2nd grade....I know that this is fixing to change though. For the most part, when they called, Jesse would tell me to tell them he couldn't talk..in reality, he just didn't want too. Oh, boy not anymore. The phone rings and he comes running.....I know it will just get worse. He and I do have long conversations about the dating and all that goes along with it. Thank goodness for this here support system called SoWal, I think I am going to need it. Alot in the next few years!!!!!!!!!!!

You go gull!! Sam has never been allowed to call boys. It's just a thing with me. I can hold onto some tradition. Call it old fashioned I don't mind.
Seems the IM'ing is how Sam is communicating with the 1st real BF.:shock: That's even how he "asked her to go out with him". How easy is that? No face to face rejection or dead silence on the phone.

This is all very new and I'm not sure how I feel about it. He goes to our church and the relationship sparked at camp. He hasn't asked her to actually go anywhere yet so I really need to decide how this should work. Group meetings only???? Feel free to advise.;-) She's 13 and going into 8th grade. He's in going into 9th grade and I think she said he's going to turn 15 this month. That really doesn't make me feel any better. Soon I might be

 

[ShallowsNole]

Squirt meets his date(s) at Destin Commons and normally they go to the Rave. I have not been comfortable with this, but I really have to wonder about parents that let their 13/14 year old GIRLS loose at the Commons. Yes, the old double standard is alive and well in the ShallowsHome.

I'm getting better at accepting it, if I get to meet her first, and if she puts me on her MySpace friends list. ;-)

I dread when he starts driving...

 

[OhioBeachBum]

Do enjoy the HS time - every little moment, even all of the busy schedule crazy stuff because as others have said, those 4 years seem to fly by almost in a blink! Seems my last was a freshman hardly any time ago and now he's off to college this fall (and we'll table for another thread the discourse about the sacks of $$ I'm assembling for that ;-))

 

[Mermaid]

You go gull!! Sam has never been allowed to call boys. It's just a thing with me. I can hold onto some tradition. Call it old fashioned I don't mind.
Seems the IM'ing is how Sam is communicating with the 1st real BF.:shock: That's even how he "asked her to go out with him". How easy is that? No face to face rejection or dead silence on the phone.

This is all very new and I'm not sure how I feel about it. He goes to our church and the relationship sparked at camp. He hasn't asked her to actually go anywhere yet so I really need to decide how this should work. Group meetings only???? Feel free to advise.;-) She's 13 and going into 8th grade. He's in going into 9th grade and I think she said he's going to turn 15 this month. That really doesn't make me feel any better. Soon I might be

OL, this is how the Catholics in Indianapolis do it. (At least the ones in my family. ;-) ). Group date only until sophomore year!!! No ifs ands or buts. It's not exactly torture. There are still movies, McDonalds & Starbucks, etc., school dances--in other words, lots of opportunities to "date" each other but NO opportunities to be alone with each other. You never want to leave two kids to their own devices. The pack mentality is the best mentality until they're older.