Too Young to Date?
Story★★★★Paul Harvey once delighted his radio listeners with this story. “Our RJr What It’s Worth Department reads The Washingtonian ... About the nine-year-old boy who announced to his parents that he had a date. A date with a girl at the age of nine?
His parents were taken aback. But the lad had already telephoned the girl they’d met last summer and invited her to his house for dinner.
He had lured her with the promise his mom would make popovers. And his dad would get a VCR tape of Thriller at the video store. So-the pretty little girl was delivered by her mother. After dinner the two youngsters went down to the rec room and watched Michael Jackson.
At ten P.M. his father delivered them to her front door. Her four older sisters rushed out to hug and greet her. It was her first date also. Back home, before the dying fire, dad sat soberly thinking about how fast babies grow up.
His young son, misinterpreting his father’s mood, walked over, put his hand on dad’s shoulder and said, “Don’t worry, Dad; nothing happened!”
The point
A nine-year-old's innocent first date and his father's concern remind us to cherish childhood innocence before adulthood rushes in.