How to Talk to Your Child About Dating
Whether you know it or not, the world is oriented around sex and pleasure today. Everything, from what our children see on the television to the clothing that is sold in the popular stores, is designed to arouse sexual desire. And even in the school system and everyday life where your child is exposed to his peers the discussion of sexual activity or at least dating is brought up on a daily basis.
How can you talk to your child effectively about dating? There are ways to assist your child in adopting the same wholesome view that you have. One thing that you want your child to understand is that there is nothing wrong with dating itself, when kept in it proper place because in most cultures dating is indeed a legitimate way for two people to get to know one another in preparation for marriage.
What we want our children to understand is that their peers tend to have a very casual view of dating – that of wanting to be with a member of the opposite sex without having any real intention of marrying that person.
There are many forms of dating as well, and they are not just limited to one on one physically spending time with one another. Dating can also be in the form of phone calls and text messaging. And sometimes when these means are used, they tend cast a haze over reality and people may find themselves saying things they wouldn’t usually say in person.
Ask your child this question, which was posed in the very useful book “Questions Young People Ask, Answers That Work”
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