{"id":753,"date":"2007-04-28T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T07:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=753"},"modified":"2007-04-28T09:40:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T07:40:06","slug":"at-what-age-should-your-children-bring-their-boygirl-friend-to-sleep-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"At what age should your children bring their boy\/girl friend to sleep over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have four children and they go from 16 to 6 months.  As a parent of teenagers I have had to deal with the tough request of having boyfriend\/girlfriend sleep over at our home. This <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/1168357.stm\">is not surprising<\/a>. While I did not want to deny this request I asked that the following rule be observed:  for a boyfriend or girlfriend to sleep over they must pass the &#8220;year in love&#8221; test.  If my kids are able to stay in love in a relationship for a year, then the person they are with can stay over at our home.  I must say it was not easy when it happened but I rather have this rule than one that does not promote the association of sex with love and anyone can stay in, or the opposite, to never have them come in and have them  do it in the back of a car somewhere.  Basically I believe that sex is much better when you are in love and that\u00b4s what I try to promote with this rule.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=753\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have four children and they go from 16 to 6 months. As a parent of teenagers I have had to deal with the tough request of having boyfriend\/girlfriend sleep over at our home. This is not surprising. While I did not want to deny this request I asked that the following rule be observed: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=753\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky in English\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"At what age should your children bring their boy\/girl friend to sleep over? 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