248: Chaperoning vs. Freedom as Parents of Young Couples

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We get to talk about young love, marriage, early relationships and all of that fun stuff. We are going to answer some questions that listeners have asked on this topic. Our kids are obviously not of the age where they are getting into relationships, but it has already become a conversation in our home. Some kids become aware of the opposite sex a lot sooner than others. Today, we are going to talk about how our parents navigated that from our perspectives and some thoughts around young budding friendships and romance.

How are you navigating children who are becoming adults who maybe establish these attractions earlier? What are some ways to slow down the attraction and timelines until they’re ready to actually do something about it? Communicate with your children that there’s a certain timeline for this type of stuff. What is your endgame with this person?

4 things to avoid / timeline extenders:
1. Declaration
2. Alone time
3. Exclusivity
4. Physical touch

If you have a goal for your children to date to marry, how do you balance protecting and guarding vs. freedom when they start to have an interest in each other? You aren’t dating for just a friend, companionship, romantic outlet or the world’s recreational dating term. It’s a serious thing when you are dating. It’s not recreational to play with your whole life. It’s very foolish to throw it around like a sport you play.

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0:00.0	Well, this is a fun night because we get to talk about young love in early marriage and early
0:06.4	relationships and all of that stuff. So we've compiled some listener questions into a big lump and we're going to answer all your
0:13.8	questions all together with all of our incredible parenting advice for young couples.
0:19.8	No, so obviously our kids aren't of the age where they are getting into
0:26.6	relationships at this point, but it has already become a conversation in our home.
0:30.7	Some kids become aware of the opposite sex a lot sooner and so today
0:34.6	we're going to just kind of talk about how our parents navigated that from our
0:38.5	perspectives and some thoughts around young budding friendships and romance.
0:47.2	If you guys enjoy this episode,
0:48.5	don't forget to share on your social media profiles.
0:51.2	Leave us a comment down below if you're here on YouTube or give us a thumbs up and what is it?
0:57.7	Oh no, a writing or review if you're on iTunes or Spotify.
1:01.8	We love hearing from you guys. It was actually
1:03.8	awesome. We just got on Spotify and they gave us our little year and review.
1:07.8	That was fun. You guys are amazing and we are just so thankful for our listeners.
1:14.0	So thank you guys for being here and thanks for supporting the Now that we're a family
1:17.4	podcast.
1:18.4	And I'm going to chime in real quick because I just figured out that we can read reviews on Spotify and publish them.
1:25.6	And so if you can't, months back had,
1:28.3	you know, submitted a review on there
1:30.6	or a response to a Q&A, Don't feel bad that we never published it.
1:34.8	I didn't even know we could until recently.
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