Just be honest with your parents.  Prom is a special occasion and hopefully .. If you show them you can be trusted .. They'll let you go with a date.  I would use this year to show them you're responsible and honest and want to earn their trust.

A year is a long way off. You might put off worrying about this until you're closer to the event. In the meantime, find out when, in your family, you're allowed to date. Find out if the rules are different for prom. If your parents are being hard-core about the dating rules, you might just … Read more

Because we're all individuals and have different ways of dealing with the stresses of life.  People are a product of their upbringing or environment or personality, etc.  We can't control how other people act .. Only how we allow that to affect us.  There are plenty of great people in the world and we should … Read more

Just a few observations:

Many years ago, in the Broom Hilda comic strip, two of the characters wanted to go on vacation.  One wanted to go hunting in the mountains and the other wanted to go deepsea fishing.

They couldn't decide, so they decided to compromise.  The final panel was the two of them sitting in a … Read more