<p>We didn’t have any rules. We’d just talk.</p>
<p>Both of our kids turned out much more “straight arrow” than we were. Weird.</p>
<p>My wife’s general rule was that you could consider having sex when you and partner were able to discuss it without giggling. (I think that rules out some married people.)</p>
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<p>I think I see where you’re coming from now. I don’t know if I see intercourse as more key to someone’s life than other things. I’m honestly not sure. A lot of people I have great respect for accomplished lots of things by basically abstaining. </p>
<p>Coincidentally, there was an article about this in today’s NYT. <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/life-without-sex.html?ref=opinion&_r=0[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/life-without-sex.html?ref=opinion&_r=0</a> It’s interesting.</p>
<p>Guys, should we continue this in a new thread or somewhere else? Oldfort’s right, this has gotten off topic</p>
<p>We can make a “sex rules for teens” thread or something 
Or just talk about it somewhere not on these forums…</p>
<p>EDIT: GUYS, give me an answer! I have like a hundred responses that I need to give! I know y’all are reading this.</p>
<p>Make a new thread!</p>
<p>Stressed go! </p>
<p>As far as dating</p>
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<li>They know the kid</li>
<li>I have my phone on</li>
<li>I’m back at curfew ( which can vary depending on what we do)</li>
<li>If you leave with them, you come back worth them- of you call to let them know what’s going on</li>
<li>Just be smart about it, protection, drinks etc</li>
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<p>^^Alright, we’re getting it sorted guys. :)</p>
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<p>ditto. In my experience this isn’t unusual for home schooled kids whose parents who came of age in the 60s and 70s. Mine were home schooled until high school and never had to make rules for themselves till then. The main rule I can remember having for them in high school was: never ever ever leave your back pack downstairs. Take it to your room.</p>
<p>I am finding fascinating all the teens posting who so wholeheartedly agree with their parent’s values.</p>
<p>(Um, hold on guys- we might have to continue this conversation somewhere else- will PM you to let you know)</p>
<p>Maybe that discussion belongs, if anywhere at all on cc, in the cc cafe, not the parents cafe.</p>
<p>It belongs in the Parent Cafe. It’s a parent discussion.</p>
<p>Maybe it take a parent to start up that discussion. If what it takes is a parent. A parent we shall get. :)</p>
<p>My parents never set dating rules…Mainly because I only went on one date…And the guy’s brother, his girlfriend, and their mother were all there…And it was a JROTC awards banquet…</p>
<p>131^^:):):):)</p>
<p>Isn’t there a high school life section on this board? Don’t you use that place for posts?</p>
<p>Seems to me the posters who took it off track were not the parents. I could be wrong.</p>
<p>^No, you are correct. I don’t think we will be taking it off track again though…</p>
<p>He’s wrong. Two of them were parents.</p>
<p>jym, aren’t we off track right now? Talking about who got off track?</p>
<p>Niquii, read my PM. I think we should talk about this first.</p>
<p>Read through this thread. Well I’m Muslim from a traditional family. In high school I wasn’t allowed to hangout out after sunset, go to parties, sleepovers, etc. Dating was forbidden and no premarital sex. Went to college and now I’m 22. While I kept excellent grades, I’ve done every drug in the book, parties, lots of drinking, slept with over 30+ girls, etc…</p>
<p>This has given me perspective. If my parents weren’t so strict when I was in high school. Just like letting do stuff with friends at night like going to the movies and stuff. Innocent stuff just at night. I probably wouldn’t have just let loose during college and done some regrettable stuff. </p>
<p>Now while I still practice my religious strictly. I have no desire to leave my nightlife(no drugs anymore tho). I don’t want this to happen to my kids. I want to be able to strike the perfect balance of decency and fun with them</p>
<p>I did. I responded to you.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure if this was directed at me but the point of my post was that I don’t know what rules parents set because mine never set any. Most of my friends parents didn’t set any. The few that did were the uptight, strict parents. And the kids never obeyed the rules anyway because they were so outrageous.</p>
<p>@TeamPunishment- Crazy strict parents usually leads to wild kids.</p>