Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. I'm your co-host, Christina Dodson. This is an Ask

Dr. Kim segment where people submit their questions for Dr. Kim, Kim, and he answers them.

Thanks for listening. So today on Ask Dr. Kim, we have the question that we have teenagers

and they're beginning to desire to date. How involved should we as parents be in

that process? How can we teach our kids, our kids, God's plan for marriage? What a great question

and one that we're all going to have to deal with as parents at some point when they get to that age

where they're, yeah, interested in the opposite sex and wanting to date and their friends are

probably dating. So Dr. Graham, what do you think? How involved should we be in our children's dating lives and their choices that they make?

I think we need to be real involved. I mean, I don't think it just stops because all of a sudden

they get a certain age and they can date and you think, okay, I'm done. No, you're not done.

You're just shifting into a different phase of their lives. I think,

you know, there may be more pushback, global resistance at that time, but you have a right to

be involved in them. That's still a lot of that training in helping them to, you know, if you've laid a

good foundation with them, it's beginning to help them live that out. If you haven't laid a great foundation with them, it's not a time to give up. It's a time to say,

okay, we maybe did some things wrong. And here's some guidelines we kind of want to talk to you

about and go with. So don't be intimidated into doing that. Don't listen to, well, nobody else's

parents care about that. Nobody else's, Everybody else's parents is letting them do this.

You know, these are your kids.

These are, and God still has you responsible for them.

They're still training up a child in the way they should go, even though they might be

15 or 16 or 17 or something like that.

And so don't be afraid to do that.

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