What should your rules for dating be?

As a father of three beautiful children, I am not stressed about the day my kids get interested in dating (they are currently 11, 10, 6 and they all still don’t like the opposite sex).  The reason I am not stressed is because I believe dating is a wonderful way for my kids to develop in to loving and healthy adults.

I have already started preparing my children for the inevitable day they become interested in the opposite sex by teaching them the most important foundation to a healthy dating life (and no, they are not too young to learn these rules).

I have three rules, or foundations, that must be honored before any of my children will be allowed to date:

1. Do they honor God through an active and obedient relationship?
2. Do they honor others through serving and encouraging them?
3. They they honor themselves by standing up for what is right and not allowing people to pressure them in to bad decisions?

That’s it for me. There is no age limit rule in my house, but rather a maturity level.  Then your rules have more to do about maturity than age, your kids will honor themselves and their boyfriend or girlfriend in a dating relationship.

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