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My 8 year old has a "Boyfriend" ?!

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Lioness334 · 29/02/2020 23:45

So my recently 9 year old daughter has a boyfriend my question is do I stop it or are kids just being kids ?

She's known this young boy since they were 3 in preschool together and now they are in school together and same class. His parents are nice decent people and I speak to them on the school run.

Since young always said they loved each other and were always very well behaved together at school. Just recently though he made her a Valentine's Day card and brought her some gifts into school.

They both play on roblox and have they play together in there and meet up on there and chat about the game etc and play different modes
Together often.

I have always been very aware of everything my daughter does In the game she's only allowed on a certain times and I read her chats. Just to be sure. The last few days though her and her "boyfriend" were exchanging " I love you's" and "your so pretty" and "I love you to the moon and back" and "are we more than friends now" which she replied "yes you are my boyfriend" then a couple of millions hearts sent back and forth.

Now I know that when I was her age I would write Valentine's Day cards and I had this one boy who used to kiss the love letters he gave me etc.. I know this is probably just a modern way of doing what we did as kids but I just want to be sure that this is just a kids being kids thing and not something that people think is far for there age?

Honest opinions please I'm just a mother of 1 not knowing if this is ok or not Grin

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AlunWynsKnee · 29/02/2020 23:49

They're all doing it and have been for ages at ds's school. He had a girlfriend for quite a while. She had a whole life worked out for them :) It's over now. They're still friends. It was harmless.

delilahbucket · 29/02/2020 23:52

Totally normal. They're just exploring different kinds of relationships. Boyfriends and girlfriends are pretty meaningless and short lived at that age.

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