Should you make your teenager group date?
When your teenager is old enough to date you have a lot of choices to make. You have to ask yourself what rules you will have about dating, and how you intend to enforce them. One of those decisions you have to make is "Should you make your teenager group date?" Let's take a close look at some of the reasons why your teenager should group date. Here are three really great reasons:
1. Group dating is safer. Let's be honest, as much as you want to protect your kids, you can't run a background check on every person they come into contact with. However, you can ask them to date in groups to ensure that they remain safe, or at least safer. When you are in a group, you may make poor choices, such as drinking because everyone else does, etc. However, you are also less likely to get raped, killed, etc. You may not want to think about those things, but that is reality. So, get your teenager to group date to help them be safer.
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2. Group dating means less intense relationships. While you know at some point your child will grow up, get involved in an intimate relationship, get married, etc. you do not want them to start that too soon. So how do you encourage them to keep their relationships in high school less intense? Ensure they group date. It can be hard to get into too serious of a relationship, or too intimate of situations, when you only date in groups.
3. Group dating can help your child be more social. One of the biggest problems of your child getting into a relationship in high school is that they tend to only spend time with their boy friend or girl friend, and neglect their other friends. So, if that relationship ends, they may be friendless for a while. This can be very hard on a teen. So, make sure that even if their relationship ends, their friends remain in tact by having them date in groups. Dating in groups means having more fun, meeting more people, and staying social, even if they are in a serious relationship.
When a teenager group dates, they have healthier, happier relationships all around. They learn to interact with others while maintaining a relationship as well. This is beneficial for their future life. It teaches good life skills, and has many other benefits. So, keep your child safe, help them stay away from many common problems of teenage dating, such as too serious of relationships, which leads to many other problems from teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, etc. Other great benefits of having your child group date are simply that they can be easier to find. For example, if your kids cell phone is dead, or if they don't answer it, you can call one of their friend's phones. Also, group dating can get your child in earlier. Why? Well, basically they end up having a curfew that goes with their friend's curfews, and if one or two of those curfews are at the same time, the rest seem to follow.
There are times when single dates are great, but group dating is a great idea all around, and your teen will probably have more clean fun on a group date than they will on a single date anyway. On a group date if things start to get dull, someone chips in a livens things up. On a single date when things get dull, teens make-out, get into trouble, etc. So, be smart, have your teenager group date.
