Parenting A Teenage Girl - Talking About Dating

Hi!!! It’s been a while! I have an almost 14 year old middle schooler going into high school soon. Kids in her class are dating, when I say dating pretty much regular dates every weekend, watching games or hanging out at homes. We haven’t had any of that yet and I know my daughter likes a boy and probably want to hang out with him. Have anyone encountered this before around this age for their kids and how did you handle. I want to tell her no, but I understand is natural to have attractions at this age, I also don’t want to hold her back or control her too much. This is such young age. My husband seems to be chill about this and he says once she is in high school there is going to be plenty of this scenario ( wanting to go on a date/dinner etc) will come up. I really can’t get my head around how to allow hangouts but at the same time have some control over this. Please share your wisdom!

 

Thank you for thinking about me! I am doing good, job change raising a toddler and a teen and several other things, I have no time these days. Toddler is more of a handful than teen. Stopped baking mainly because the husband and I got into workouts, and healthy eating and high protein diet. So only special occasion cakes now☺️.
I already talked with the teen a little bit about dating - but the conclusion was she is too young. I used ChatGPT for that obviously. She seems to be understanding. However, from what she didn’t say and guessing from my intuition, I have reasons to suspect she wants to date a boy who said he likes her. Her school has mostly American kids, whose parents dated and married. Me and my Husband had an arranged wedding, I never dated in my life to offer her any advice. What kind of supervised settings does nowadays parents provide? A walk in the park? Movie? One of my colleague said make it a group activity. But don’t we have to find enough people to do this?