How affectionate is too affectionate for your daughter and her new boyfriend?

How affectionate is too affectionate for
your daughter and her new boyfriend?

By Mary Jo Rapini, M.Ed., LPC

Teens are advertising their relationships
out in public all the time. Go to Facebook, or MySpace and you can see whom
they are dating, whom they formerly dated, and basically everything they have
done in the past month. It is scary, especially if that teen happens to be
yours. Even when your child goes to college they will be showing their personal
life to everyone they accept as their friend (don’t feel bad if your friendship
status is ignored, it happens to all of us). I like my privacy as many other
people do and I am not comfortable with discussing my relationship status with
all of my