DATING GUIDELINES

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• START OF CLASS
• Answer these questions
• with your desk partner
• Technical
• What is the purpose of dating?
• What are the dating standards in your family?
• When you have children of your own, will these
  standards change? How?
• What is the difference between love and
  infatuation?
• Interpretation
• What is important to you in the dating
  experience?
• Why is the decision-making process important when
  we discuss dating?
• What values affect your views on dating?
• Reflective
• If you could make changes in the American dating
  experience, what changes would you make?
• What would be the result of these changes?

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REASONS FOR DATING

• Why do people date?

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Reasons...

• Learn more about the gender we are dating
• Develop communication skills
• Be accepted by someone who wants to spend time
  with me
• Develop independence from parents
• Learn to feel more at ease with intimate
  relationships

• Help evaluate good bad qualities that could be
  found in a future spouse
• Its fun enjoyable
• Sharing common interests and developing new
  interests

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DATING GUIDELINES
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As teenagers, do you want guidelines about your
dating life?
YES Why?
NO Why Not?
Why do your parents want guidelines (rules) for
you?
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9 Dating Guidelines What negative or positive
impact could each have on a relationship?
Explain.

1. Choose responsible friends
2. Date people close to your own age
3. Avoid tempting situations

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9 Dating Guidelines What negative or positive
impact could each have on a relationship?
Explain.

1. Select entertainment that promotes healthy
   sexuality
2. Have your boundaries set
3. Communicate these boundaries
4. Have an agenda planned for your date stick to
   the agenda (location time)

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Two HUGE influencing factors that affect a
dating relationship

• How you dress
• Drugs Alcohol