Oh, yes. I remember drawing myself up as tall as possible and leaning over slightly to peer into his rebellious, anti-parent smirking eyes.

I said, "I need to know the color of your eyes for the police report plus I need your parent's phone number just in case my little girl is different when you bring her home."

The boy and I connected, for sure…and I knew my daughter would be safe on her first date with a seventeen-year-old boy.

My wife and my daughter rolled their eyes.

This approach didn’t work on her second date. She came home different.