Let them date Rebellious?

[PeterJ]

How do you stop your teens dating rebellious teens? do you mind if they do if the person is ok?
Do you only let them date if they are christains?

[DARKastheRAIN]

define rebelious

[*Hope*]

How do you stop your teens dating rebellious teens? do you mind if they do if the person is ok?
Do you only let them date if they are christains?

If a teen is not mature and wise enough to choose a person who has the same values and follows after God, then they are NOT ready to date. If I were a parent, I would not let my son/daughter date AT ALL until they had proven themselves to make wise decisions. And not only do they need to date only Christians, the person would need to be a growing Christian who had a thriving relationship with God. Furthermore, dating should be for the purpose of finding a spouse. Therefore, it only makes sense that the person should be a quality individual who would respect my son/daughter and who had the potential of being a strong, godly spouse.

[GitRDunn]

This is an interesting thought. I too have to ask what do you mean by rebellious? I personally have never dated anyone (I am 17) because I haven't met that someone yet and I'm not interested in dating just to date and I have no intention of marrying anyone who isn't a Christian either. I do however think that anyone who is a parent has to be very careful. You definitely need to guide your son/daughter and lay down rules in your house, but you also won't always be there to set up a wall around your kids and they will have to learn some things on their own or they'll be in for problems when they get out on their own. Also, make sure and listen to their point of view and don't just say no without hearing them out or meeting the person, or whatever it is, because you are more likely to cause them to not listen to you in return and do whatever will upset you most, even if they know it's wrong.

*I've never parented and I haven't had problems with my parents such as rebelling because they're too overbearing or anything, but I've talked to enough kids to know how many feel. A parent-child relationship works both ways and requires work from both sides.