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[quote=Anonymous]For my DS it's pretty innocent. He "dated" a girl at the beginning of the school year. From what I gathered, it consisted of nothing except smiling at each other in class, and he was impressed when she put pink streaks in her hair. I'm not even sure if it lasted a week. Neither of them had a phone, so no texting or talking outside of school.

He told me that the "dating" was trendy (not exactly sure if that was the word), but my impression is that they are trying to act older, but only a subset are actually interested in having a boyfriend/girlfriend.

If it had come that, I wouldn't have let them meet up outside of school except in a group and DS isn't getting a smartphone until at least 7th if not later, and no social media for a long while, so no worries about texting, social media. As you said OP, not opining about the good and bad of social media and phones- but I did have a MS counselor caution parents that the vast majority of social issues that come through her door are phone and social media related, so we're holding off for as long as possible.  [/quote]

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