Parents and convincing them to let me date?

Question

Basically, here's the situation: my friend from camp came over to my house on Monday. We ended up kissing and we want to go on a date and see if it works out, and if it does then we're going try for a relationship.

Here are the problems:

-We have a significant age difference. He's 15 and a sophomore, and I'm 13 and in 8th grade. However, I'm also very mature for my age, and I'm not just saying that; it's true. He's also very sensible and would never take advantage of me. We met at basically a camp for smart kids.

-We live kind of far from each other. He lives in San Francisco and I live in a suburb; by public transportation it's about an hour and 15 minutes to get to his house from where I live, or about 30-45 minutes by car.

-My parents are a bit overprotective.

We'd been planning to meet up this Sunday but I remembered that I'd already had prior commitments. So we're going to try for the weekend after next. I asked my mom about it when we were in the car today and she said that she thought I was a little young; however, she wanted to discuss it with my dad and talk about it in a week (her words were pretty much "let's leave this subject alone for another week and then we'll talk about it.")

I'm smart and I get good grades; I'm involved in lots of extra curricular activities- ballroom dance, piano, running the manga club at school, and my Jewish education. How do I convince them to let me date him?

Answer 1

Your parents are right. You are way too young. You have plenty of time for dating, sorry

Answer 2

pick up some extra chores around the house try to show ur responsible  and that ur growing up becoming a young lady and ready to get out there and experience new things. if u feel comfortable talking to ur parents sit down and say hey i really want to go this is what we got planed going here and then here if he has a cell give ur parents his number be an adult and step up to the plate and talk to both ur mom and dad. if they say no back off for a few days and try again. that will show them u are serious about it and understand that u are growing up by confronting them.