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Dd wants to go to the cinema with <gasps> BOYS!
wudu · 29/05/2011 22:48
Noooo ... 
This wasn't supposed to be happening for at least another 10 3 years!
There's a group of them wanting to go, 4 girls, 2 boys, one of them is dd's 'boyfriend'.
I say 'boyfriend' because she's got absolutely no intention of kissing him (I've told her that her tongue will fall out 
) and won't hold his hand because "boys don't wash their hands properly when they've had a wee" 
But still ...! There will be BOYS!!
I'm stalling madly and haven't given her an answer yet.
Should I let her go?
Gah, why do they have to grow up
worraliberty · 29/05/2011 22:54
It seems nowadays most groups of friends are mixed.
When I was 11 I wouldn't be seen dead with a smelly boy in my circle of friends, but it's all changed now.
My 8yr old DS has almost as many female friends as male...same with my 12yr old and 19yr old.
I don't think I really had mixed sex friendships til I was around 15?
PacificDogwood · 29/05/2011 22:59
Why on earth is this boy your DD's 'boyfriend' and not a friend who is a boy??
FWIW, I would not worry too much about a group of them going to the cinema together - it is roughly the age I started going to the cinema with friends and whithout adult supervision.
I just think it is a bit sad/wrong/has the potential to backfire to segregate them at that age.
She'll be 15 going on 25 soon enough
LaWeasel · 29/05/2011 23:04
They're 11! They will hold sweaty hands in the dark and spend so long awkwardly thinking about having a kiss they never actually get around to it.
At least, that's how my first date at 12 went! We did eventually kiss, by about date 3 and then broke up not long after having satisfied our curiosity about what kissing is all about...
smallpotato · 29/05/2011 23:09
I remember going to the cinema with my first boyfriend with a group of friends when I was 12. To watch Wayne's World . He didn't even hold my hand . Then the next week at school he dumped me. Not even to my face, he told my best friend
Let her go, it's a rite of passage and she will have a fun giggly time (said as the mum of 2 preshool girls so feel free to ignore!)
smallpotato · 29/05/2011 23:09
I remember going to the cinema with my first boyfriend with a group of friends when I was 12. To watch Wayne's World . He didn't even hold my hand . Then the next week at school he dumped me. Not even to my face, he told my best friend
Let her go, it's a rite of passage and she will have a fun giggly time (said as the mum of 2 preshool girls so feel free to ignore!)
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