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protect her morally, sexually, emotionally, and you know what?\u00a0 You're going to be involved in this dating relationship.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Thursday, March 24th.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 If you have never had a pre-date interview with a young man who has come to call on your daughter, stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Boy, we sure had a lot of people, Bob; call in yesterday about wanting to order ball bats.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 [laughing] We had a couple who want to enroll in Southern Seminary, too, so I just thought I'd throw that in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You're speaking, of course, of Louisville.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Louisville, Kentucky.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Which is known for Southern Seminary and Louisville Slugger ball bats.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0They\u2019re in the same city.\u00a0 Yeah, that's right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don't know how you got there on that.\u00a0 Anyway, we were talking about interviewing your daughter's date.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve already talked about this week, I didn\u2019t actually use the ball bat in the interview.\u00a0 The ball bat was something I showed the guys after I interviewed them, and the reason was, it\u2019s laser-engraved in big, I don\u2019t know, two-inch letters, laser-engraved.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cThe Respect Her.\u201d\u00a0 And that\u2019s what we\u2019re calling young men to do, is to respect our daughters, and as fathers we are calling dads to step out of the easy chair and do something that is, frankly, downright courageous:\u00a0 interview a young man who wants to take your daughter out.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0And you never intended for this ball bat to be threatening or menacing, but you did intend for it to communicate \u201cI'm serious about what I'm talking to you about as a young man.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 We're not interested in violence.\u00a0 That has no place in the Christian family whatsoever.\u00a0\u00a0 But the ball bat was kind of a fun thing because the guys \u2013 most of them played ball \u2013 and I had them sign it.\u00a0 Again, it was a fun symbol of a great man-to-man interview with these young men.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I've heard you talk about this concept for more than a decade now in a variety of settings.\u00a0 Here and there you'll bring up the idea of a dad interviewing his daughter's dates.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 In fact, I've been wanting to ask you the question, Bob, did you interview any of Amy's or Katy's dates as they grew up?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0Much to their chagrin, I did.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Did you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0And they didn't have a whole lot of dates, and I think that's, in part, because they knew and the boys knew that that was coming.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>What was your favorite?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, I remember sitting at Sonic.\u00a0 I met a young man; we went out to Sonic together and got \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That's a good place to go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0Got a hamburger and some tater tots or something.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I went out on the back porch -- but Sonic, I think that's a good teen place to go.\u00a0 That's kind of a safe public place.\u00a0 So if he faints \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We sat at one of the tables outside at the Sonic and had a very good heart-to-heart conversation about expectations and about taking my daughter out.\u00a0 And I remember I was probably as nervous the first time as he was.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I guess that's my question -- as you've talked to dads about this, do you see them pushing back?\u00a0 Do you see them embracing this concept?\u00a0 Is this something that a dad hears about and goes, \"I want to do that?\u00a0 I should do that.\"\u00a0 Or is it something he goes, \"I don't know if that's for me.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think what I've heard most, Bob, is this is something men want to do.\u00a0 They just don't know how because they've never heard of it being done and, frankly, they need an outline.\u00a0 So we put together a book that's got \"eight steps for no regrets\" that you can go over with a young man and talk to him about in a very healthy, wholesome, heart-to-heart way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI found when you equip men with these steps, with this conversation to have with a young man and, by the way, the book's got the eight steps in it along with a sample dialogue of what it looks like, and in the back of the book we've even produced a little card that you can tear out that is kind of a cheat sheet for a father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Crib notes you can take with you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know what?\u00a0 We mentioned it earlier this week -- we had one dad who sent the ball bat with his son, when I interviewed his son, and he asked me to write the eight points on the ball bat because he was going to use the ball bat to read the -- you know, turn the ball bat and read all eight points as he interviewed the young man, but I talked him out of doing that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You're putting crib notes the way a quarterback kind of has the game plan on his arm pad -- so dad can take this with him?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think the point we're making here is that young people today and, really, for that matter, young people of any era need their parents, need a dad to step in a provide a little guidance and some boundaries and some accountability.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI had an executive assistant back when FamilyLife first started.\u00a0 Her name was Pat Orten.\u00a0 Pat was a grandmother who had been married for, I think close to 50 years, if not more than 50 years, before her husband passed away.\u00a0 Pat was a dear lady, and when she heard me talking about interviewing young men, she came to me, and she told me the cutest story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe said, \"Back when my husband and I started dating, my dad called me aside and literally,\" she said, \"he outlined where on my back between my shoulders and the waistline where a young man could touch me\" as he was dancing with her or when he was helping her out of a car or walking to go on a picnic or something.\u00a0 He actually drew some invisible but nonetheless very visible lines.\u00a0 I titled this chapter in the book, \"The Neckline, the Waistline, and the Bottom Line,\" because this father knew the wisdom of protecting a pair of young people, even though it was from another era, from their own passions.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have to tell you the rest of the story, because that young man not only became her fianc\u00e9, but they courted for four years.\u00a0 And she said, \"My fianc\u00e9 was very careful to observe what my daddy had asked him to do.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So he hadn't only told Pat where the boundaries were, but he had told the young man where the boundaries were as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 Back only, shoulder to waistline, nothing further until the day they pulled away from the church on their way to their honeymoon, at which point he tenderly reached over and placed his hand on her knee.\u00a0 Think about how outrageous that would be.\u00a0 Then he said, \"I've been waiting for four years to do that,\" with a huge grin.\u00a0 And they left and drove off to their honeymoon.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, you know in this culture and in this age, there are a lot of people going to laugh about that and say, \"How old-fashioned can you get?\"\u00a0 Well, I just want to tell you, as a parent of six kids and now as a grandparent, I'm all for protecting our kids from every possible evil that I possibly can as a dad and as a grandfather.\u00a0 If having a few boundaries, a few limits, a few points of protection can curb the sexual appetite, the passion, and can keep it asleep until its time, as Solomon wrote in the book, <em>The Song of Solomon,<\/em> until it's time to awaken those desires.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut you know what?\u00a0 I think we need more of some old-fashioned boundaries and some limits for this generation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0You know, as you were sharing that story from Pat Orten, I was thinking about, and I have a very distinct memory of being a junior in high school sitting at a hockey game, a professional hockey game with a young woman that I had taken out to dinner, and in the middle of that hockey game, she reached over, and she put her hand on my knee.\u00a0 I remember it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was how many years ago?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was 1973 that that happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was a few years ago then.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was a few years back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Kind of electrifying, you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I remember, thinking \u2026 whoa!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Whoa!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly what I remember thinking, and the point is, we can hear a story like Pat shares and go, \"Oh, isn't that sweet and isn't that old-fashioned,\" but things are no different today.\u00a0 There's still something going on in the heart of a young girl or the heart of a young man if a hand is put in a place where it arouses or awakens love before its time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bob, I think the assignment of parents is to help their children and, in this case, it's helping a daughter think through, in advance, what she is going to do with the opposite sex before she faces the time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, one of the ways you're going to head that off at the pass is by interviewing a young man.\u00a0 But there's other ways that you could protect her by drawing some lines, as well.\u00a0 One of the things that we spent a lot of time talking with our daughters about, just in terms of protecting them and drawing some boundaries and some lines is we talked to them about what should you do if you're out on a date, and the young man you're with finds some way to get some alcohol and begins to drink, and he's the driver.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat are you going to do?\u00a0 Now hopefully, because you interview your daughter\u2019s date,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 He knows better than to try something like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He should know better, and if he\u2019s even bent toward that and has the courage to come past your interview and still behave that way \u2013 but let\u2019s say that he does and he gets past your interview and your screening techniques and your daughter is out there, well, you\u2019ve helped her think through in advance some lines, also helping her think through what happens if he makes a move on me and tries to try something on me sexually that is inappropriate.\u00a0 What should you do?\u00a0 How should you behave?\u00a0 What should you say?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd she knows that you as a daddy, and for that matter, her mother, are very approachable.\u00a0 In fact, you\u2019re more than approachable.\u00a0 You will be involved in this dating relationship because you want to interview the young man that she goes out alone with or out on a double date with, or out on a group date with.\u00a0 You want to talk to that young man about appropriate behavior, and talk about accountability, look at him eye-to-eye and face-to-face and talk to him about the real-life issues of passion.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s there; we just seek to stick our head in the ground like an ostrich and ignore it and hope it will go away.\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s not going away.\u00a0 Generation after generation it hasn\u2019t gone away.\u00a0 So the point is to engage with your daughter and her dates around this issue, and do something courageous, step into her life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You and Barbara wrote about this whole concept in your book, <em>Parenting Today's Adolescent,<\/em> where you talked about deciding in advance where the standards are and playing a game with your children as they were growing up that was the \"Decide in Advance\" game, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right, and the \"Decide in Advance\" game is very similar to what I was just talking about.\u00a0 You play the game and say, if you're out on a date with a young man who is drinking, and he's about to step in behind the wheel, what do you do?\u00a0 I mean, you literally have a split instant to make what could be a life-determinative choice. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so what do you do?\u00a0 You know, you use your cell phone, you find a phone, you get out of that car, you get somebody else to take you back, you tell him you're not riding with someone who has been drinking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you help your child think about this before the situation occurs so they're not taken by surprise, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right, and that's really the essence of the interview.\u00a0 You're talking to a young man about how he is going to treat your daughter before he takes her out on a date, and you want him to know that you understand the way a young man thinks and what he thinks about, and how he's wired.\u00a0 You want him to know that you have a high value on your daughter, and that you've been given an assignment by God to protect her and protect her morally, sexually, emotionally, and that you know what?\u00a0 You're going to be involved in this dating relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is going to date me a little bit, but do you recognize the name Eddie Haskell?\u00a0 Do you know that name?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 What does that bring to mind?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \"Leave it to Beaver?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Eddie was Wally's friend.\u00a0 Do you remember Eddie?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Eddie was the guy who was always very polite to Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 When he was around adults.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \"Good afternoon, Mrs. Cleaver, oh, that's a lovely dress you're wearing.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But he was a terror privately.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Now, here is what I'm wondering -- did you ever have any guys you were interviewing \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, hello.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you thought, \"I'm getting the Eddie Haskell treatment here?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Oh, yeah.\u00a0 In fact, there was a guy that I think almost fainted in our living room when I interviewed him because I think he was giving me the Eddie Haskell smoke \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Giving you \"the business,\" that's what Eddie used to call it, giving him the business.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 The smoke.\u00a0 He was blowing smoke at me, and it simply wasn't washing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 How did you handle that, when you thought, \"I don't think he's being honest with me.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think I got tougher.\u00a0 I think that young man -- I'm not sure he ever went out with my daughter, now that I think about it.\u00a0 Yes, I think he may have been the only one I ever drew the line with and said, \"No, I don't think we're going to go there.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wait, wait, wait, I've got to ask you about that.\u00a0 How did that go over with your daughter when you said no?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I don't think she liked it, but I think she knew he was not of the right stripe.\u00a0 I do know this -- there were other guys that I interviewed -- not many -- because I think this process of interviewing your daughter's date, I think it weeds out most of the undesirables.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut some can filter through, and there was a young man or two that I wished, frankly, based upon how they were dressed and how they came to meet me, that I would have said, \"You know, I don't think so.\"\u00a0 But, truthfully, I didn't go with what a man would call his gut, my intuition, as a man.\u00a0 I went ahead and said, \"Okay,\" and later regretted it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So if you had 30 or 40 interviews with young men when your daughters were dating, how many got the \"no.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think there was only the one who didn't cut muster.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And looking back, do you think it probably should have been five, 10?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, not 10, because I'm going to tell you something -- the reputation of this interview at school -- I guarantee you, by the time all six of our kids went through the same high school, do you think everybody in the school, or at least all the guys, knew that those interviews occurred?\u00a0 I would almost be willing to bet that any young man who had any aspirations to date \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2026 had already heard.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Had already heard, \"Hey, don't go there.\u00a0 You don't want to go over there if you want to take her out.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So as much as this being a screening process, it was really an opportunity to do a little discipling, to do a little communicating, and to make sure that you were setting some standards that the young man understood and that your daughter understood.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, there are a lot of benefits to this thing, Bob.\u00a0 Number one, your daughter benefits because she feels loved and protected.\u00a0 She may squeal and push back and whine and, \"Daddy, no, you can't do that.\u00a0 I'll be the laughingstock of the school.\u00a0 No way.\"\u00a0 But I'm going to tell you something, in her heart of hearts, she knows she's being protected because she sees the lay of the land at school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecondly, it's really good for young men who want to take your daughters out to meet you.\u00a0 That's all there is to it.\u00a0 It's just really healthy.\u00a0 And, third, I think it's good for your sons to see you protecting their sister.\u00a0 It gives them a picture of what real manhood is and what a real man does and how a dad steps out of his easy chair and doesn't do the easy thing but does the difficult thing and sweats a little bit and talks about how nervous he was.\u00a0 At the same time it equips his sons to think this way about how they treat a young lady.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI've been asked over the years, did you have interviews for the young ladies that your sons went out with, and I have received e-mails, especially from some of our friends on the West Coast saying that you really need to write another book about aggressive women, because young ladies today, especially out here on the West Coast, are very aggressive with young men and, frankly, we as parents need some help to know how to manage this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, I never felt comfortable sitting down with a young lady talking to them about\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 About standards.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 About her responsibility and what her standards ought to be.\u00a0 I really feel like that's her parents' responsibility.\u00a0 But when they started taking my daughter out, now it's encroaching on what is my responsibility to protect her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you may weigh in on this subject of aggressive young women at some point in the future?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I might do a little something on that because we need to talk today about boundaries and talk about how we protect this next generation from, really, a very seductive culture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I wonder if we have done anything to make the hearts of single parents heavier, as we've talked about this this week.\u00a0 You know, there are a lot of moms raising kids on their own.\u00a0 They have daughters, and they're thinking, \"I wish there was a husband.\"\u00a0 For that matter, there are some moms who are married to a guy who isn't going to embrace this as a responsibility.\u00a0 What can a mom in that situation do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I think this is an assignment she can do.\u00a0 It may not be the ideal.\u00a0 Ideally, for the father to do this interview is the best, but, frankly, Bob, there may be some moms listening to the broadcast who aren't married to a man who is going to do this.\u00a0 He is simply not going to assume that responsibility.\u00a0 They may need to get the book themselves and step into their daughter's life and provide a little accountability around this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut you and I had a conversation with Sandra Aldrich a number of years ago, and it was interesting, as we were interviewing her and talking with her about how she protected her children from evil and from the culture that she talked about this very issue.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And we asked her if she would re-create for us how she, as a single parent, as a mom, engaged a young man on the subject of taking her daughter out, stepping in and doing this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here you go.\u00a0 So, Holly was telling me you scored the winning points at the football game on Saturday.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, that was cool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 What was that like?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, like, everyone went ballistic in the stands because it was against Milford High, and they were undefeated.\u00a0 They, like, put shaving cream all over my car.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 I heard that someone wrote \"The Man\" across the windows, and everyone was honking when you drove downtown.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, that was cool.\u00a0 Except I had to, like, scrub the car for an hour to get all the stuff off.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Holly says your car is really special.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, I worked all last summer at the paper mill to be able to buy it\u2014overtime and everything.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mm, I can see it from the window.\u00a0 It looks really nice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 It's the deal, yep.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 What if I asked you if I could borrow it for tonight?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tonight, I mean, well \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 I mean, what if.\u00a0 What would you want to know about me?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0Huh?\u00a0 I guess, like, if you'd treat it right, because there's some stuff you need to know before you just drive it.\u00a0 Like the clutch has this way you need to shift it, and if you don't do it right, it will \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 It damages the car?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, yeah.\u00a0 I mean, that car is all I've got right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 So I hear concern that you'd want to make sure I treated it right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, yeah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Relax; I'm not going to ask to borrow your car.\u00a0 But, you know, I feel kind of the same way about Holly.\u00a0 I know you guys are just friends, and you're just going on a friendly date \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you know things have a way of getting out of hand sometimes, and I want you to promise me that you're going to treat Holly the way you'd want someone treating your car if you loaned it to them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know it's hard to imagine, but she's even more important to me than how you feel about your car.\u00a0 To put it another way, I want you to promise me that you'll treat her the way you'd hope another man is treating your future wife tonight.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, yeah, sure.\u00a0 I'll do that.\u00a0 I mean, we're just going to a movie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, in some ways, that had to feel a little uncomfortable for her, as a mom, to be stepping in and doing that, but somebody's got to do it, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, God bless the single moms.\u00a0 I was having a conversation with a friend just yesterday.\u00a0 I was talking with him about the assignment given to single-parent moms of juggling the finances, juggling a job, raising kids, and then doing dual duty -- having to be both mommy and, in some cases, trying to fill that role that a father should fill in that family and yet, if you have to do it, you have to do it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just want to cheer them on and encourage them, and I hope a lot of them will take heart from these broadcasts and perhaps get the book and protect their daughters as they begin to venture out on dates.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 The principles are the same, whether it\u2019s a dad or mom who is doing the interviewing, protecting our kids and being involved in their lives, and let them know we\u2019re paying attention.\u00a0 That\u2019s really what\u2019s at the heart of all of this.\u00a0 But I also think it\u2019s helpful for a mom or a dad to hear how you approach this and they may choose to do it differently and that\u2019s fine.\u00a0 The question is, have you thought it through?\u00a0 Do you have a game plan?\u00a0 Do you have something you\u2019re going to do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd if it\u2019s helpful to have a copy of the eight points that Dennis used as he interviewed his daughters\u2019 dates back when they were teenagers, you can go to FamilyLifeToday.com and request a copy of the book, <em>Interviewing Your Daughter\u2019s Date, <\/em>and we\u2019ll send it to you.\u00a0 Again, our website is FamilyLifeToday.com, and you can order a copy of the book from us online if you\u2019d like.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe also have an audio book available, and this week we\u2019re making the audio book available as a thank you gift for those folks who help support the ministry with a donation.\u00a0 So if you\u2019re online making an online donation and you\u2019d like the audio book, just type the word \u2018\u201dDATE\u201d in the key code box on the online donation form, or if you call 1-800-FLTODAY you can make a donation and ask to receive the audio book or you can find out how you can have a copy of the hardback book sent to you, or you can do both if you\u2019d like. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, our toll-free number is 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\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We sat at one of the tables outside at the Sonic and had a very good heart-to-heart conversation about expectations and about taking my daughter out.\u00a0 And I remember I was probably as nervous the first time as he was.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I guess that's my question -- as you've talked to dads about this, do you see them pushing back?\u00a0 Do you see them embracing this concept?\u00a0 Is this something that a dad hears about and goes, \"I want to do that?\u00a0 I should do that.\"\u00a0 Or is it something he goes, \"I don't know if that's for me.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think what I've heard most, Bob, is this is something men want to do.\u00a0 They just don't know how because they've never heard of it being done and, frankly, they need an outline.\u00a0 So we put together a book that's got \"eight steps for no regrets\" that you can go over with a young man and talk to him about in a very healthy, wholesome, heart-to-heart way.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI found when you equip men with these steps, with this conversation to have with a young man and, by the way, the book's got the eight steps in it along with a sample dialogue of what it looks like, and in the back of the book we've even produced a little card that you can tear out that is kind of a cheat sheet for a father.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Crib notes you can take with you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know what?\u00a0 We mentioned it earlier this week -- we had one dad who sent the ball bat with his son, when I interviewed his son, and he asked me to write the eight points on the ball bat because he was going to use the ball bat to read the -- you know, turn the ball bat and read all eight points as he interviewed the young man, but I talked him out of doing that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You're putting crib notes the way a quarterback kind of has the game plan on his arm pad -- so dad can take this with him?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think the point we're making here is that young people today and, really, for that matter, young people of any era need their parents, need a dad to step in a provide a little guidance and some boundaries and some accountability.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI had an executive assistant back when FamilyLife first started.\u00a0 Her name was Pat Orten.\u00a0 Pat was a grandmother who had been married for, I think close to 50 years, if not more than 50 years, before her husband passed away.\u00a0 Pat was a dear lady, and when she heard me talking about interviewing young men, she came to me, and she told me the cutest story.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe said, \"Back when my husband and I started dating, my dad called me aside and literally,\" she said, \"he outlined where on my back between my shoulders and the waistline where a young man could touch me\" as he was dancing with her or when he was helping her out of a car or walking to go on a picnic or something.\u00a0 He actually drew some invisible but nonetheless very visible lines.\u00a0 I titled this chapter in the book, \"The Neckline, the Waistline, and the Bottom Line,\" because this father knew the wisdom of protecting a pair of young people, even though it was from another era, from their own passions.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have to tell you the rest of the story, because that young man not only became her fianc\u00e9, but they courted for four years.\u00a0 And she said, \"My fianc\u00e9 was very careful to observe what my daddy had asked him to do.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So he hadn't only told Pat where the boundaries were, but he had told the young man where the boundaries were as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\u00a0 Back only, shoulder to waistline, nothing further until the day they pulled away from the church on their way to their honeymoon, at which point he tenderly reached over and placed his hand on her knee.\u00a0 Think about how outrageous that would be.\u00a0 Then he said, \"I've been waiting for four years to do that,\" with a huge grin.\u00a0 And they left and drove off to their honeymoon.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, you know in this culture and in this age, there are a lot of people going to laugh about that and say, \"How old-fashioned can you get?\"\u00a0 Well, I just want to tell you, as a parent of six kids and now as a grandparent, I'm all for protecting our kids from every possible evil that I possibly can as a dad and as a grandfather.\u00a0 If having a few boundaries, a few limits, a few points of protection can curb the sexual appetite, the passion, and can keep it asleep until its time, as Solomon wrote in the book, <em>The Song of Solomon,<\/em> until it's time to awaken those desires.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut you know what?\u00a0 I think we need more of some old-fashioned boundaries and some limits for this generation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0You know, as you were sharing that story from Pat Orten, I was thinking about, and I have a very distinct memory of being a junior in high school sitting at a hockey game, a professional hockey game with a young woman that I had taken out to dinner, and in the middle of that hockey game, she reached over, and she put her hand on my knee.\u00a0 I remember it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was how many years ago?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was 1973 that that happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was a few years ago then.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was a few years back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Kind of electrifying, you know?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I remember, thinking \u2026 whoa!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Whoa!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s exactly what I remember thinking, and the point is, we can hear a story like Pat shares and go, \"Oh, isn't that sweet and isn't that old-fashioned,\" but things are no different today.\u00a0 There's still something going on in the heart of a young girl or the heart of a young man if a hand is put in a place where it arouses or awakens love before its time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bob, I think the assignment of parents is to help their children and, in this case, it's helping a daughter think through, in advance, what she is going to do with the opposite sex before she faces the time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, one of the ways you're going to head that off at the pass is by interviewing a young man.\u00a0 But there's other ways that you could protect her by drawing some lines, as well.\u00a0 One of the things that we spent a lot of time talking with our daughters about, just in terms of protecting them and drawing some boundaries and some lines is we talked to them about what should you do if you're out on a date, and the young man you're with finds some way to get some alcohol and begins to drink, and he's the driver.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhat are you going to do?\u00a0 Now hopefully, because you interview your daughter\u2019s date,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 He knows better than to try something like that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 He should know better, and if he\u2019s even bent toward that and has the courage to come past your interview and still behave that way \u2013 but let\u2019s say that he does and he gets past your interview and your screening techniques and your daughter is out there, well, you\u2019ve helped her think through in advance some lines, also helping her think through what happens if he makes a move on me and tries to try something on me sexually that is inappropriate.\u00a0 What should you do?\u00a0 How should you behave?\u00a0 What should you say?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd she knows that you as a daddy, and for that matter, her mother, are very approachable.\u00a0 In fact, you\u2019re more than approachable.\u00a0 You will be involved in this dating relationship because you want to interview the young man that she goes out alone with or out on a double date with, or out on a group date with.\u00a0 You want to talk to that young man about appropriate behavior, and talk about accountability, look at him eye-to-eye and face-to-face and talk to him about the real-life issues of passion.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s there; we just seek to stick our head in the ground like an ostrich and ignore it and hope it will go away.\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s not going away.\u00a0 Generation after generation it hasn\u2019t gone away.\u00a0 So the point is to engage with your daughter and her dates around this issue, and do something courageous, step into her life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You and Barbara wrote about this whole concept in your book, <em>Parenting Today's Adolescent,<\/em> where you talked about deciding in advance where the standards are and playing a game with your children as they were growing up that was the \"Decide in Advance\" game, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right, and the \"Decide in Advance\" game is very similar to what I was just talking about.\u00a0 You play the game and say, if you're out on a date with a young man who is drinking, and he's about to step in behind the wheel, what do you do?\u00a0 I mean, you literally have a split instant to make what could be a life-determinative choice. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so what do you do?\u00a0 You know, you use your cell phone, you find a phone, you get out of that car, you get somebody else to take you back, you tell him you're not riding with someone who has been drinking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you help your child think about this before the situation occurs so they're not taken by surprise, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right, and that's really the essence of the interview.\u00a0 You're talking to a young man about how he is going to treat your daughter before he takes her out on a date, and you want him to know that you understand the way a young man thinks and what he thinks about, and how he's wired.\u00a0 You want him to know that you have a high value on your daughter, and that you've been given an assignment by God to protect her and protect her morally, sexually, emotionally, and that you know what?\u00a0 You're going to be involved in this dating relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is going to date me a little bit, but do you recognize the name Eddie Haskell?\u00a0 Do you know that name?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 What does that bring to mind?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 \"Leave it to Beaver?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Eddie was Wally's friend.\u00a0 Do you remember Eddie?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Eddie was the guy who was always very polite to Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 When he was around adults.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \"Good afternoon, Mrs. Cleaver, oh, that's a lovely dress you're wearing.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 But he was a terror privately.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Now, here is what I'm wondering -- did you ever have any guys you were interviewing \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh, hello.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 When you thought, \"I'm getting the Eddie Haskell treatment here?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Oh, yeah.\u00a0 In fact, there was a guy that I think almost fainted in our living room when I interviewed him because I think he was giving me the Eddie Haskell smoke \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Giving you \"the business,\" that's what Eddie used to call it, giving him the business.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 The smoke.\u00a0 He was blowing smoke at me, and it simply wasn't washing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 How did you handle that, when you thought, \"I don't think he's being honest with me.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think I got tougher.\u00a0 I think that young man -- I'm not sure he ever went out with my daughter, now that I think about it.\u00a0 Yes, I think he may have been the only one I ever drew the line with and said, \"No, I don't think we're going to go there.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Wait, wait, wait, I've got to ask you about that.\u00a0 How did that go over with your daughter when you said no?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I don't think she liked it, but I think she knew he was not of the right stripe.\u00a0 I do know this -- there were other guys that I interviewed -- not many -- because I think this process of interviewing your daughter's date, I think it weeds out most of the undesirables.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut some can filter through, and there was a young man or two that I wished, frankly, based upon how they were dressed and how they came to meet me, that I would have said, \"You know, I don't think so.\"\u00a0 But, truthfully, I didn't go with what a man would call his gut, my intuition, as a man.\u00a0 I went ahead and said, \"Okay,\" and later regretted it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So if you had 30 or 40 interviews with young men when your daughters were dating, how many got the \"no.\"\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think there was only the one who didn't cut muster.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And looking back, do you think it probably should have been five, 10?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 No, not 10, because I'm going to tell you something -- the reputation of this interview at school -- I guarantee you, by the time all six of our kids went through the same high school, do you think everybody in the school, or at least all the guys, knew that those interviews occurred?\u00a0 I would almost be willing to bet that any young man who had any aspirations to date \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2026 had already heard.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Had already heard, \"Hey, don't go there.\u00a0 You don't want to go over there if you want to take her out.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 So as much as this being a screening process, it was really an opportunity to do a little discipling, to do a little communicating, and to make sure that you were setting some standards that the young man understood and that your daughter understood.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, there are a lot of benefits to this thing, Bob.\u00a0 Number one, your daughter benefits because she feels loved and protected.\u00a0 She may squeal and push back and whine and, \"Daddy, no, you can't do that.\u00a0 I'll be the laughingstock of the school.\u00a0 No way.\"\u00a0 But I'm going to tell you something, in her heart of hearts, she knows she's being protected because she sees the lay of the land at school.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecondly, it's really good for young men who want to take your daughters out to meet you.\u00a0 That's all there is to it.\u00a0 It's just really healthy.\u00a0 And, third, I think it's good for your sons to see you protecting their sister.\u00a0 It gives them a picture of what real manhood is and what a real man does and how a dad steps out of his easy chair and doesn't do the easy thing but does the difficult thing and sweats a little bit and talks about how nervous he was.\u00a0 At the same time it equips his sons to think this way about how they treat a young lady.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI've been asked over the years, did you have interviews for the young ladies that your sons went out with, and I have received e-mails, especially from some of our friends on the West Coast saying that you really need to write another book about aggressive women, because young ladies today, especially out here on the West Coast, are very aggressive with young men and, frankly, we as parents need some help to know how to manage this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWell, I never felt comfortable sitting down with a young lady talking to them about\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 About standards.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 About her responsibility and what her standards ought to be.\u00a0 I really feel like that's her parents' responsibility.\u00a0 But when they started taking my daughter out, now it's encroaching on what is my responsibility to protect her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you may weigh in on this subject of aggressive young women at some point in the future?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I might do a little something on that because we need to talk today about boundaries and talk about how we protect this next generation from, really, a very seductive culture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I wonder if we have done anything to make the hearts of single parents heavier, as we've talked about this this week.\u00a0 You know, there are a lot of moms raising kids on their own.\u00a0 They have daughters, and they're thinking, \"I wish there was a husband.\"\u00a0 For that matter, there are some moms who are married to a guy who isn't going to embrace this as a responsibility.\u00a0 What can a mom in that situation do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, I think this is an assignment she can do.\u00a0 It may not be the ideal.\u00a0 Ideally, for the father to do this interview is the best, but, frankly, Bob, there may be some moms listening to the broadcast who aren't married to a man who is going to do this.\u00a0 He is simply not going to assume that responsibility.\u00a0 They may need to get the book themselves and step into their daughter's life and provide a little accountability around this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut you and I had a conversation with Sandra Aldrich a number of years ago, and it was interesting, as we were interviewing her and talking with her about how she protected her children from evil and from the culture that she talked about this very issue.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And we asked her if she would re-create for us how she, as a single parent, as a mom, engaged a young man on the subject of taking her daughter out, stepping in and doing this.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here you go.\u00a0 So, Holly was telling me you scored the winning points at the football game on Saturday.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, that was cool.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 What was that like?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, like, everyone went ballistic in the stands because it was against Milford High, and they were undefeated.\u00a0 They, like, put shaving cream all over my car.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 I heard that someone wrote \"The Man\" across the windows, and everyone was honking when you drove downtown.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, that was cool.\u00a0 Except I had to, like, scrub the car for an hour to get all the stuff off.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Holly says your car is really special.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0Yeah, I worked all last summer at the paper mill to be able to buy it\u2014overtime and everything.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mm, I can see it from the window.\u00a0 It looks really nice.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 It's the deal, yep.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 What if I asked you if I could borrow it for tonight?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tonight, I mean, well \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 I mean, what if.\u00a0 What would you want to know about me?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0Huh?\u00a0 I guess, like, if you'd treat it right, because there's some stuff you need to know before you just drive it.\u00a0 Like the clutch has this way you need to shift it, and if you don't do it right, it will \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 It damages the car?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, yeah.\u00a0 I mean, that car is all I've got right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 So I hear concern that you'd want to make sure I treated it right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, yeah.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Relax; I'm not going to ask to borrow your car.\u00a0 But, you know, I feel kind of the same way about Holly.\u00a0 I know you guys are just friends, and you're just going on a friendly date \u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you know things have a way of getting out of hand sometimes, and I want you to promise me that you're going to treat Holly the way you'd want someone treating your car if you loaned it to them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 I know it's hard to imagine, but she's even more important to me than how you feel about your car.\u00a0 To put it another way, I want you to promise me that you'll treat her the way you'd hope another man is treating your future wife tonight.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Boy:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, yeah, sure.\u00a0 I'll do that.\u00a0 I mean, we're just going to a movie.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sandra:<\/strong>\u00a0 Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, in some ways, that had to feel a little uncomfortable for her, as a mom, to be stepping in and doing that, but somebody's got to do it, right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, God bless the single moms.\u00a0 I was having a conversation with a friend just yesterday.\u00a0 I was talking with him about the assignment given to single-parent moms of juggling the finances, juggling a job, raising kids, and then doing dual duty -- having to be both mommy and, in some cases, trying to fill that role that a father should fill in that family and yet, if you have to do it, you have to do it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just want to cheer them on and encourage them, and I hope a lot of them will take heart from these broadcasts and perhaps get the book and protect their daughters as they begin to venture out on dates.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 The principles are the same, whether it\u2019s a dad or mom who is doing the interviewing, protecting our kids and being involved in their lives, and let them know we\u2019re paying attention.\u00a0 That\u2019s really what\u2019s at the heart of all of this.\u00a0 But I also think it\u2019s helpful for a mom or a dad to hear how you approach this and they may choose to do it differently and that\u2019s fine.\u00a0 The question is, have you thought it through?\u00a0 Do you have a game plan?\u00a0 Do you have something you\u2019re going to do?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd if it\u2019s helpful to have a copy of the eight points that Dennis used as he interviewed his daughters\u2019 dates back when they were teenagers, you can go to FamilyLifeToday.com and request a copy of the book, <em>Interviewing Your Daughter\u2019s Date, <\/em>and we\u2019ll send it to you.\u00a0 Again, our website is FamilyLifeToday.com, and you can order a copy of the book from us online if you\u2019d like.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe also have an 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