Wahlymom

All of my kids friends are non-lds kids due to where we live. It is just up until this point none of them really even wanted to date pre-mission/pre-college beyond a prom date. This particular child is just really lonely and all her friends are dating so she is enjoying the attention I think. I love that my kids have all made friends of all religions. This situation is just new to us....which is weird because she is the baby of 5, so you would think I would have this down. But somehow they dynamics of raising this last kiddo is very different with all the other "kids" up and out!

It just terrifies me because I dated non-members as a teen and got into way too much trouble in the process. We have had very frank discussions and she knows our preference is that she date members....knowing that even members do not always keep to the standards. But at least you know they SHOULD be on the same page. She is just so lonely with he brothers gone on their missions! She always used to run with their crowd and never had to worry about finding friends at church things. If we can just keep her on track, about the time she turns 18 and can start attending YSA activities her brothers will be back and she will have 2 "escorts" to steer her to the best boys! This agency thing is tough on Moms!

I have a 17 year old daughter at home. She is my baby of 5. Two of her brothers are currently serving missions and she has been left alone, and lonely here at home (her other 2 siblings are up and out). She attends a small rural school and we attend a very small branch of the church. She is literally the only active youth in the whole branch. We make sure she attends Stake youth activities, but she struggles to make friends since none of the kids she meets live closer than 30 miles away nor do they attend the same school. Consequently, she is wanting to date non-members. To the point that she actually had a dinner date with a young man from school but told us that she was going out with "friends". When I didn't buy her story, I finally pried out of here that it was actually a date with a non-member. She was afraid to tell us because she assumed we would not "let" her go out with a non-member. Considering the fact that she literally has no member prospects for dating what should we do? Do we allow her to socialize and date non-members because of her isolation from other member youth, or hold the line and just tell her it will get better once she can date YSA's and travel to find them?