Okay, so I've noticed each moment I grow older, and notice younger kids dating, the more I think about how young they are and how they shouldn't be. But I remember when I was their age I felt the same way- I had little crush obsessions and strong lust for others. I wasn't mature enough to handle a relationship. But now I'm growing older and older- and I'm thinking about how kids are too young to be dating. Next year I'm going to think the grade before me shouldn't be dating. and then a thought occured to me that if I were a teacher, I would be sicked out from all the relationships, considering strong healthy and serious relationships start around after highschool. You know? I think kids are trying to grow up too fast :/

How young are you talking about here?

[edit] Yeah, I agree. Almost all middle school relationships and bull shit and are just for the title or to make people think your cooler or more mature. It's kind or annoying but I bet teachers and used to putting up with that stuff.

About 8th grade and under. I'm older than that... sooo. :p

I don't mind the dating thing, but I find it HORRIBLE when 5th graders wear makeup and short skirts. :(

i fucking can't stand ANYONE of any age making out in public, if i were a teacher i'd carry pepper spray and just shot kids i see in the halls. there are always kids at my school in the hallways just grinding and practically making love outside the classrom. it's so disgusting and vile and arousing but mostly disgusting. i hate pdaaaaaa.

but little kids with boyfriends/girlfriends is fdfsgsd CUTE.

I'm sure a lot of them just don't have the time and energy to care. Bad enough they already have to babysit the rooms full of ungrateful twits that just don't want to bother learning what the teacher is trying to drum into them, without having to worry about their social lives too.

This is why I want to be a kindergarten teacher.

But if I have five-year olds in my classes dating, I'll surely throw a chair. :|

Personally, I don't think anyone below the eighth grade level is mature enough for an actual relationship. Sure, going out once in a while won't hurt, but the PDA?

nothx :x

Usually I just try and ignore all the little kids that are "dating", but it's really, truly getting out of hand around here. Some of you may remember me mentioning that they caught two 9 year olds having sex in a classroom closet during recess a couple years back...and it seems like it's not so isolated. So not only do you have to try and avoid the "teehee, we're dating!" kids, you have to avoid the "we're dating" kids who take it all the way before they even hit puberty :x

There's a family of young boys who's backyard is across from ours, and day after day after day the eldest one (who's about 13, at most) is out cleaning his girlfriend's tonsils with his own tongue on the back picnic table. And their parents think it's just wonderful...god it makes me gag.

Enough said. Let the fast kids screw up their lives, better jobs for us.

Wow.... XD

i got a boyfriend much more earlier than i got a girlfriend. my parents weren't happy with the boyfriend.

a friend of mine was talking about how some kids parents watch porno in front of their kids so the kids think it's alright to grab another kid and act the porno scenes out. so now that they've banned, completely phones from the schools where i grew up and when they catch you with a phone on or off they search through your texts and what time you sent them etc. even your last called. and the teachers in one of my cousin's pods they had this little chat. it went sort of along the lines of "You guys aren't adults and shouldn't be grabbing each other's butts or boobs and even more less, you shouldn't be /dating/" she's in sixth grade. my aunt, she teaches first graders and she one year during summer school caught two kids literally making out behind a dumpster. the thing was, they were first graders.

i really do think that kids are trying to grow up too fast but it's life, it's this stupid media and society. they grow up in it, they act it.

hell kids are even smoking. my cousin's like, best friend did smoke before he got asthma, then he quit.

Yeah, kids do the darndest things. But I also believe most of society is an idiot. So it doesn't suprise me.

i am freaked out when parents are like, "oh my kindergartener's little BOYFRIEND!"

EWW

not rite, ok!

Depends on the age we're taking about, but I think it mostly depends on the people in the relationship. For example, my parents dated for a few years in high school and got married after they both graduated. They've been married for over 30 years now. I don't think I've ever heard them have a real fight.

But the kids everyone here seems to be talking about, I agree. You shouldn't be dating that early. :/

i think the older you get... the more you realize how absurd the relationships between kids are, so you tend to overlook it without a real problem.

i wish teachers were still allowed to smack kids around. at least a smack across the face, it's absolutely necessary a lot of the time.

i think up to puberty though, all the short skirts and liking boys is just innocent. i wore short skirts and liked boys when i was 5.

idk. i think its ridiculous that we have these harsh opinions of what children "shouldnt" be doing when we're 14-16.

whenever my grandpa tells me something, and i contradict him, he says "oh right. youre 16"

everything we do probably has a reason it shouldnt be done either

wait, what?

like, if a teacher finds out a kid has a boy/girlfriend, they should just hit them? i don't think that would work.

i don't agree with you on any account, but i can see how the argument can be made for other things, but not this, though.

i think it would just make kids sneakier and stay away from adults when in relationships, which would probably just increase overtly sexual behavior at a young age.

ya know, forbidden fruit syndrome.

HAHA NOOOO oops that first thought was completely independent from the rest of my post. ha sorry. that isnt what i meant at all.

when i saw the topic title, i didnt expect the thread to be about relationships and just didnt take it out when i posted

I think that it all depends strongly on the parents. My parents are awesome. They're always there for me and they've been great social teachers. I didn't start dating until the end of my 8th grade/end of 9th grade this year and have been steady with my one guy for about... oh... 6 months total? That, and I've been around grown-ups all my life, so I have a different view.

But I have friends with parents who AREN'T there. A lot of the kids who date younger are probably looking for love and attention in the wrong places. Or they're just horny little bastards. ;)

But I agree that anything under 8th grade is too young. You don't know jack-diddly about your body, let alone anyone elses. A lot of the girls here (way small town, ok?) are perfectly fine until they hit middle school. Once sixth grade hits about 75% of them switch to the jailbait stage. The short skirts and too much make up for three clowns put together.

I find it sad that kids are dating younger and younger. And most of it, as mentioned before, is for status or acceptance. The thing that sucks though is it also excludes children quicker. If you can't get a date well OMG something must be wrong with you, y/y? N/N. It makes people look down on others quicker.

There's just so many reasons not to do it. xD It's unbelievable. but I feel for the teachers. It's why I could never be one. :c I'd be tryin' to protect my chilluns too much.

I personally think high school relationships are okay. The whole middle school-elementary school relationships...not cute.

Maybe you should add a age? Because here we don't count in grades, so for me you could be talking about a 8 years or, a 10 years old or a 5 years old.

Now i get older i look at this the same way, i wouldn't see my 3 years younger brother with a girl, though when i was 15 i was guy obsessed. but i can't imagine my brother like that.

My boyfriend he's parents thought he was too young for a long term relationship, he was turning 19 when we got together!

So i think it only gets worser with getting older :d