ARTICLE: "Awareness Tips and Setting Boundaries"

May 2002

-Nancy Fehrmann

Following are some great tips for helping your daughter set boundaries in her relationships.

1. Always meet your daughter's date and ask that they go out in a group rather than alone.
2. Know where they are going, who they are going with, and when they will be home. Ask for phone numbers of the other teens who are going.
3. Encourage them to plan day time activities rather than evening dates.
4. Create a policy where there must be another adult in the house if there is a guest of the opposite sex coming over.
5. Have an open door, lights on, no bedroom policy.

"It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality, that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable…" (1 Thes 4:3-6)