I don’t understand all the fussing about this first date at 12 years old.
Note her ‘date’ was 14 and the father was taking them and picking them up, and had already dropped the boy off.
Don’t know about ya’ll, but at 12 in the early 60’s we regularly went on ‘chaperoned’ dates to school dances, church dances, etc.
Again, based on the description of this date, I don’t see what the problem is.
My son was being invited to go to movies by girls when he was in sixth grade, in the mid-90’s, which would have needed a parent to drive. I said no, he was too young to start “dating”, but school functions were fine. He said I was lost in the old days (the 60’s).
With a serious, straight face, I told him that no, it made sense to date at a young age in the old days, because people got married when they were 18, right after high school, but that nowadays, folks don’t get married until mid-20’s, after college. Seemed to work for him, because it was four and a half years before the subject came up again. He had met his future wife. And they were just past their mid 20’s when they wed.