<p>So, are your parents OK with you dating in high school???</p>
<p>Yeahhhh. They just aren't ok with...other stuff. I try to keep my life a secret from them. I succeed most of the time. :)</p>
<p>Nope. "Maybe, if you went on a group date with other kids we know, and didn't go to a movie, and he didn't pay for anything, and we'd met him and his parents first, and you didn't ride in his car, and you were back home by nine, and his pants weren't falling off his butt, and he went to our church, we could talk." Needless to say, I'm the oldest child.</p>
<p>Dating in HS is not a choice so they want you to wait until you get to college when they won't be around and you can do whatever you want? Is that what you are saying?? Exactly when do they think you can date? Are you going to be going to college??</p>
<p>Can they really stop me? Mwhahah</p>
<p>It's a pattern like...they say "do you have a boyfriend" and I deny it for a month and they then find out anyway.</p>
<p>totally, as long as my grades don't plummet</p>
<p>they say that I'm going to do what I want to do, so they might as well be "open" and "supportive." That way, I won't want to break their trust.</p>
<p>Whoa...xhohosntwinkiesx and zantedeschia, your parents needed to watch you. :p</p>
<p>My parents are ok with it. I (and they) think it's better to start dating in high school than to go to college and then cut loose.</p>
<p>My dad refuses to acknowledge the fact that kids in high school date, and that I like guys and guys like me. He's under the impression that I'll start dating sometime in my mid-30's. </p>
<p>My mom is a bit more accepting, and she knows that they'll really have to get used to dating since I'll be in college in a year. </p>
<p>All in all, though, I prefer the policy don't ask, don't tell. And if they ever do ask, which is rare, lie through your teeth.</p>
<p>So these parents who are opposed to dating....do they know the statistics regarding sexual activity in the "dating" or HS age group? Do they truly believe that their kid is the anomoly? Do they not discuss sexual activity with their kids? I just don't get these stories. So.....if you did have a boyfried/girlfriend in college and you brought them home for a visit.....no same room time???</p>
<p>I think my parents are okay with dating, but still they rather that I wait until college. I don't think I would tell my parents if I were dating because they'd just make fun of me and make me blush ^_^!</p>
<p>So if you had a date they would make fun of you? How rude and crude is that? Do kids at your HS date? I mean some schools I guess it more of a group thing...dating that is. What do you do for social life on weekends?</p>
<p>My parents didn't date until college and they don't believe in sex before marriage either, but they've realized that it's useless to try to impose those beliefs on me. Sometimes you just feel like there's a huuge generation gap.</p>
<p>LOL the dating scene at my high school isn't that active! There are a few couple who have been together for a while, but thats about it. I'd say about 85-90 percent of my class is single. There aren't too many decent guys to choose from..lol.</p>
<p>Yea, the same was true for my school, but the "hooking up" scene is much larger. Every weekend you had random combinations of people hook up at parties.</p>
<p>In college, "the hookup scene" gets much worse from what I have heard.</p>
<p>So it sounds like folks go to parties as singles and then hook up? I guess there are so many styles of dating....I used to go to the city for the day....eat out, shop, baseball game.....that was a date while I was in HS. Or.....go to an event at someone's house....that was a date. As for the college scene...it varies all over the place. I still go to sporting events, arts events, eating out and I still do it with friends....dates....buddies. As for the sex thing...it is all over the place also. I'd say that many folks hook up because they don't want to spend the time developing a relationship...it is too time consuming.</p>
<p>I just can't imagine enjoying hooking up with someone I didn't feel anything for emotionally. <em>shrug</em> That might just be me though.</p>
<p>Firstly you have a boyfriend and secondly you are a woman.</p>
<p>lol, yes and thank you, but I meant hypothetically.</p>
<p>haha wow i hate boys</p>
<p>but what constitutes "hooking up?" in your mind? because i get confused because everyone has a different idea of what it means.</p>