There are of course exceptions to every situation but, from an intellectual POV, it SHOULD be a different. Teens are suppose to change and develop over their teen years. Unless there is some intellectual developmental problem, the average 14 year old SHOULD be very different from the AVERAGE 19 year old.
If it wasn't the case. we should just put the age of majority at 13.
YOu know, from the way you described the first encounter, it sounds like he's an okay guy. I'm with windrush...I think your dd will be fine. I'd probably still encourage your dd to go out with groups of friends when she's with him and to choose activities in public--the snowboarding is probably okay. I wouldn't want them to be spending any unsupervised, private time alone; at least not for a couple of months. I like the idea of letting them know they'll need to follow rules for a 15yo.
It seems like age makes more of a difference when you are younger - my son is in the 9th grade and he went to the show with a 7th grade girl (of course he said she didn't speak to him or even sit on the same row with him---now they knew each other because they talk on the computer and txt) (I tried so hard not to laugh when I picked him up and he told me this).
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Edited 2/19/2008 6:24 pm ET by kel7col4
You know it all depends on the kids themselves.
There are of course exceptions to every situation but, from an intellectual POV, it SHOULD be a different. Teens are suppose to change and develop over their teen years. Unless there is some intellectual developmental problem, the average 14 year old SHOULD be very different from the AVERAGE 19 year old.
If it wasn't the case. we should just put the age of majority at 13.
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