Show FO FOR ANt AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By C D SmIth One T Teenagers View Ca C Going Steady IF-A IF ME To Go HIM vowN r TilE THE WEEKS WEEK'S LETTER I 11 have read your articles many times particularly the ones about girls wanting to go steady at too early an age I am thirteen say my self and I know that I am too young to have a steady boyfriend I think a girl should be sixteen before she even considers it Al- Al Almost most every girl I know would like to go steady I suppose that I would too However if a boy should ask me me- me meto to go steady I would turn tum him down I know that he might be mad at me for far fora fara a time but I fee feel that he would understand if I explained the sit to him OUR REPLY It is refreshing to hear from a teenager who thinks for herself hersel and doesn't feel she has to follow the crowd This is what many do When they reach their teens they feel they must go steady Ask almost any parent and you will find that their teenagers teenager chief argument for going steady is that all of their friends are going steady It Isn't really much of an argument Many teenagers feel thy they will willbe be left out of things if they dont don't go steady This is not true particularly for an attractive teenager The boy or girl who goes steady is most likely missing out on invitations he be or she she- would receive were they in a position to accept them |