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I'm sorry, to me even if they are in a crowded room with a hundred chaperones, and are together all night, they are thus "spending the night together". I don't know if it has a different meaning to some; I certainly don't mean they are having mad, passionate sex all night, I'm just stating it factually. It's just not something I'd be cool with at that age.
Most likely "breakfast" is served at the end of the dance or they are going somewhere to eat at the end of the dance. Our homecoming is this weekend and the dance goes until 11:30 and the kids usually stop somewhere on the way home to eat (breakfast-Perkins, etc.). It isn't an all night affair. Our twins are 15, sophomores, it really isn't a big deal to be dating as a sophomore (or freshman) in high school .
OP, make sure he goes to the door to pick the girl up-no texting from the car "I'm here" .
Our homecoming dance is semi-formal. The girls wear cocktail length dresses and the boys wear dress pants/shirt/tie. The kids do exchange corsages/boutonnieres but I am guessing that if your son's dance is right after the football game it is jeans and sweatshirt attire?
I don't think its appropriate for a 15 year old to spend all night with this girl and then have breakfast. Maybe the date should end after homecoming dance
The kids aren't driving yet--it sounds like they're going to be chaperoned everywhere by an adult. I'm a fairly conservative parent--I don't allow one on one dating until the kids are 16--but homecoming is more of a school event than that type of dating. Like I said above--kids don't pair off like we did--they do everything in groups now. We allow our oldest son (15) to go to the movies in a group with both boys and girls, and I promise you--this is not a big deal. He had a breakfast after both his freshman and sophomore homecoming dances too--the parents who drove sat at one table, and the kids at another. It wasn't an all night thing--it was just breakfast. It's completely harmless.
my daughter is also going on her first 'date' but I dont think of it as a date really...a friend asked her to homecoming and she is going with him, and they are part of a large group who are all couples, but most of this group is just friends, only a couple are actually 'together'
they are also 15
well anyway, her 'date' asked her what color dress she was wearing so he could match his tie to her dress....I thought that was sweet
I'm sorry, to me even if they are in a crowded room with a hundred chaperones, and are together all night, they are thus "spending the night together". I don't know if it has a different meaning to some; I certainly don't mean they are having mad, passionate sex all night, I'm just stating it factually. It's just not something I'd be cool with at that age.
But I don't even think they are doing that. It sounds to me like they'll be going out to eat after the dance ends, probably 11, 12 o'clock.
On the overnight thing--we're going to let our sophomore aged son go to prom if he's asked--he'll be just 16 then. A couple of Junior girls have already told him that he'll be their backup date if they're not asked by a Junior or Senior boy, lol. Most of the kids at our school just ask friends, unless they're already dating someone. Our prom has a lock-in after the dance. They stay up all night playing games (last year they had a casino theme) and then they serve breakfast at the school at 7:00. Again--it's completely harmless. The kids never leave the school, you can't leave the building once you enter, so there's no drinking involved, and the event is heavily chaperoned. They have a blast. My kids have gone to other lock-ins for 4-H and church at a much younger age. I don't really see how prom is any different.
I don't think that's true. Most girls enjoy being treated like a lady.
Yeah I don't know any woman who doesn't want to be treated kindly.
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