Setting Ground Rules for Teen Dating

Help your tween navigate those tricky matters of the heart. No parent looks forward to “the talk” about teen sex or deep discussions about teen love. But there are ways to make these conversations easier. Check out these tips from Rosalind Wiseman, best-selling author, mom and Family Circle columnist, about how to help your child navigate the murky waters of relationships, sex—and, yes, teen love. My year-old son has found his first love.

Do you have any advice or rules? There’s someone I think I want to ask out on a date. Do you want to meet them? Do I have a curfew? I’.

After overhearing a conversation our teen son was having that consisted of asking a girl out, my husband and I realized his adolescent years were waning to young adult years. Companionship has always been very important in our family and having hosted multiple exchange students over the years, we should have been professionals when it came to parenting dating teens. We have been called many things, but never uncaring, unloving, or unconcerned.

No sex. No drugs. No alcohol. No hitchhiking. No exceptions. Academics, family obligations, and domestic chores are to be completed satisfactorily prior to unsupervised occasions with other young adults. You are a teen, your brain is still developing, sleep is essential. Curfew will be strictly enforced : Sunday-Thursday p. Friday-Saturday 10 p.