<p>Perhaps you are mixing me up with another poster, but my son is not a text from a car guy. In fact, he’s been dating a girl for about four months now and every single time we go to her house he runs to the door and even opens the car door for her - if he can beat her to it. </p>
<p>As parents, we DO have authority over our kids, who they date and even where they go, but it is not the date’s responsibility to ask me for permission, it’s my own child’s. </p>
<p>I guess I’m just glad that we don’t live in an area where it’s normal for boys to ask their date’s fathers “permission” and glad my son is not dating a girl that would think that was okay. I won’t quibble with you though geek_mom, different strokes…</p>