Help end medical misogyny. Sign our petition.

Help end medical misogyny.
Sign our petition.

Sign the petition

Please or to access all these features

Preteens

Parenting a preteen can be a minefield. Find support here.

DD 12 kissing BF

101 replies

GoodThanks01 · 20/09/2024 05:34

My DD has been ‘dating’ a boy from school of the same age for a couple of weeks. She’s been acting differently lately, not in a bad way, more distracted so I looked at her phone one night whilst she was asleep. I do this regularly and she knows I do as it was an agreement to her having a phone.

Anyway, a few days ago this boy asks her for a hug which from the messages I can see she agreed to and they did. I didn’t think too much in to this but now he’s asked her for a kiss!

She responds by saying that she will next week as she wants her friend to be there when they kiss! I feel I need to talk to her about this as she’s so young!

How would you feel about this and what would you do please?!

OP posts:
BodyKeepingScore · 28/01/2025 11:55

Galdownunder · 20/09/2024 07:03

We had a no boyfriends till 16 rule which worked well for our family. DD didn’t have a boyfriend till she was 17 and almost finished high school. We believed it was safer to be at a more mature confident age before embarking on intimate relationships.

Any friend I had whose parents had this same rule most definitely had boyfriends. They were just extra secretive about it so their parents didn't find out.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page