ds1 has just agreed to 'go out' with a girl in his class. What does this involve for one who's not yet 10?!!

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He's in year 5 and will be 10 in a few weeks. He announced on the way home in the car that a weird thing happened in school today. A girl had asked him out, or rather, her friends asked him on her behalf as she was too shy. He's clearly flattered and agreed, although he has no idea what this involves, except that now he has a 'girlfriend'.

Should I be worried? He's definitely at the curious/finding out stage of things (has asked me a few choice questions recently).

What do I say to him? My lovely boy is growing up way too fast for my liking!

My DS, when he was 13, was apparently going out with someone without knowing it! The girls in his class knew it, as did the 'gf', but he hadn't actually been asked/told!

It is innocent, so don't worry about it.

Hula I'd like a dp who held my hand and shared sweets now.

Tell him kissing isn't allowed in school and get him to buy her an Easter Egg.

Oh this thread is so sweet!

DS is 6.5 and doesn't like any of the girls in his class! Am trying to encourage him with one girl as we are good friends with her parents ('twould be nice to get on with future in-laws!) but he says she is going out with another boy and they are in love and getting married and they kissed on the lips. Once. In reception!

There is one little girl who is very forward and all the boys spend their time running away from her as she always wants to kiss them. She is French - don't know if that is a factor! Her sis is a year younger and spent a few weeks last year chasing DS too. Once we were in teh playground after school and she actually managed to get him on the ground and was lying on top of him so I called over to him that if she was hurting him he should tell her to get off. Without even turning around he said (completely dead-pan) "she's not". He quite liked the attention initially but then it interfered with his football!

Nothing IME.

They are 'going out' but they never see each other out of school. If they do pass each other in the street they look embarrassed and shuffle past.

The only thing they seem to do is buy each other presents and cards for every available oppurtunity. DS#1's gf told him that she wanted jewellery for Christmas so I took him round New Look, various hippie shops and Superdrug. I have never seen anyone so far outside his comfort zone. Finally we went to the place that sells surfing gear and he felt at home there.

ds1 was 'engaged' by the time he was 2! it was to the daughter of his grannys friend. but last summer he told me it was all over because she was too bossy! she had their lives all planned out including where they were going to live,what jobs they'd have and what pets lol.
he told me a few weeks ago that he liked a girl from school but he's now upset because he told her and she told her friends who then told him that she didn't want to be his gf!

Ds1 (age 7) is engaged, apparently, to a girl in his class. He even found a ring (pink plastic) in the playground and gave it to her. He knows they have to wait until they are grown up to marry though. Then they are going to have 8 children and run a cafe near my house. Dd (nearly 5) is not interested in boys, just want to live next door to me, have babies and be a rock band (sic). I'm really looking forward to my twilight years, loads of grandchildren, music and cake. Fab!

This is an incredibly sweet thread.

I remember at school we would do songs such as 'the farmer's in his den' and all wanted to be the 'wife' of a particular boy.

He went on to be a successful football player so maybe we were mini WAGS.

Ooh - DS has a new boy in his class at school here and his dad IS a pro footballer. So we have a footballer's wife at school!

She seems nice and normal though!

Oh, sweet. At 10 nothing worrying tends to happen. I remember having a bf at that age (followed by a long dry spell as I didn't get my next bf 'til I was 19!). All we did was just sit next to eachother and sometimes the more daring of my friends would even hold hands!
My ds(6) is now complaining about the girls at school wanting to play kiss tag, though he counts himself lucky because he's not very popular with the girls atm and he tends to escape the kissing!

I remember having boyfriends in infant school - several at the same time. They used to give me presents(stickers/sweets) and I'd decide on a daily basis who was my favourite. I remember sitting at storytime with a boyfriend's arm around me! I must have been 6 or 7.

In primary school I obviously lost my charms (plus grew about a foot and gained a lot of puppy fat) as I didn't have another boyfriend for years. Finally in the 4th year (aged 10) a similarly unlucky in love boy in my class passed a message through several friends that he'd like to go out with me. I wasn't that keen (unkindly everyone called him "gay" mainly because he wore a space nvaders jumper and was called Vincent) but decided beggars can't be choosers and passed back yes. The relationship lasted 2 days until we all went to the school disco and someone told me Vincent wanted to neck with me when the slow dances came on. Terrified I faked a migraine and went home...dumped him to next day

By the way the other more experienced 'couples' in my class used to (ahem) neck with each other whenever the teacher went out of the room. Usually with the rest of the class looking on goggle-eyed...

Maybe I just went to a particularly seedy school