According to SheKnows, young girls are notorious for crushes, but knowing when to officially enter the dating scene can be confusing.
For parents: Dating isn't exactly what it used to be when you were in the game, so setting an age when your daughter is allowed to date doesn't necessarily coincide with your own experiences with having a boyfriend.
"It seems physically people are maturing younger, but emotionally maturing later," explains Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, psychologist and author of Love or addiction: The power and peril of teenage sex and romance. "With adolescence comes raging hormones, peer pressure and media pressure, but teenage girls lack the ability to self-parent or to actually problem solve at this age."
Some experts say that at about 14 or 15 years old, young girls are often ready to explore relationships in a group setting, but exclusively having a boyfriend should wait.
One-on-one dates should probably wait until 16 or even 17, depending on the maturity of the girl or the emotional and physical development as well as the parents assessment of the boy in question.
Find dating and relationship advice at Cosmopolitan.
In dating buzz, just after rumors of a breakup and an engagement, Jennifer Lawrence’s boyfriend, Nicholas Hoult, was spotted on a dinner date with Kristen Stewart. Popsugar reported that Stewart and Hoult, both 24, dined together at a sushi restaurant in Japan. A fan snapped photos of the pair, who are co-stars in the upcoming film “Equals,” at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo and while eating at Daiwa. Catch more at International Business Times.