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I tell him the curfew I have set and that he needs to make sure she's home at the time I said she needed to be home. I tell him to bring her back just the way she was when he picked her up. And I remind him that if they are in any kind of club or party that they need to be careful of drinks (even soft drinks), such as when they get up to dance or walk around. And if there are any problems of any kind such as car problems and it's late, call me, I'll help.
No real rules. I expected him to be close in age, but really, you don't have much control over what teens do, you hope by that age that you raised them with some common sense.
Seriously??
If you are paying the bills and keeping their behinds alive, you have control. Exercise it. Perhaps then we wouldn't have so many teens walking around with an incurable STD and popping out babies before they reached adulthood.
If you are paying the bills and keeping their behinds alive, you have control. Exercise it. Perhaps then we wouldn't have so many teens walking around with an incurable STD and popping out babies before they reached adulthood.it
And it isn't just those. A young woman in a neighboring town was at a bonfire party with her boyfriend and for some reason he stayed at the party and she walked home by herself very early in the morning. Some guy in a car saw her and began to follow her, she made it to her mother's house which was locked and as she was trying to climb in through a window, this man grabbed her, dragged her into his car, raped and murdered her, threw her corpse out in the desert.
If the boyfriend had only brought her home himself, she could have made it.
I assume you mean what rules do you have for your daughters who date. Nobody can set rules for other people's children.
Yes you can. You can set rules for anyone you want. The question is, can you enforce rules for other people's children. Yes, by withholding your daughter from association with them if they don't follow the rules..
Yes you can. You can set rules for anyone you want. The question is, can you enforce rules for other people's children. Yes, by withholding your daughter from association with them if they don't follow the rules..
Parents should really be setting rules for their own children. If they do not like the behavior of their kids friends they are well within their rights as parents to keep them apart.
My daughters aren't to the dating age yet, but when they are I will have one simple rule for their boyfriends:
Treat my daughters with the same amount of respect that I treat their mother and all will be well. Disrespect them and you won't date them again.
By the time your daughters are old enough to date, shouldn't they be able to speak for themselves on the issue of respect? If not, maybe you need to talk to them more about it.
I set rules for my kids and expect they would tell their friends/boyfriends etc what they are. Such as curfew, not breaking the law while out, etc. I would never presume to have rules for other children. I hold my own kids accountable if my rules for them are broken regardless who is at fault. My kids can make their own choice to stick with the "rule" breaking friends/boyfriends or not.
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