Even if she has ever visited the South she would not understand it.
Posted on 11/09/2009 6:11:19 PM PST by greatdefender
New York - The birthday boy was turning 6, and my own young son and I arrived at the celebration in our somewhat loose definition of party clothes: Timothy in his best bluejeans and a tiny button-down shirt with stripes the colors of popsicles. The party room was filled with balloons; parents drinking coffee; a stray baby sister or two; and a dozen little boys, more than half of whom were dressed in various pieces of camouflage sportswear. Together, they suggested a small army squad.
For a moment, I thought I must have missed something in the invitation – that though we'd received a Spider-Man-emblazoned card, the small print must have said "Come Celebrate Bo with G.I. Joe!" But a quick glance around the room revealed Spider-Man cake plates and napkins and a creepy crawler craft station. No. The boys were just in their party clothes, which, it turns out, are the same as their school and play clothes.
Maybe it's me, but I would no sooner dress my essence-of-innocence son as a soldier than I would dress my daughter, if I had one, as a hooker (whoops – seems some moms are doing that, too). Not to equate heroic work with sleazy endeavors – it's the frank adultness of each that makes me shiver.
Today's clothing options for kids are dizzying (unless, of course, you're seeking a plain white T-shirt).
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What I wouldn’t have given for some camo clothes when I was a kid. It would have gone great with the old disabled 12 guage shotgun I had.
I dont have any kids myself, but I see nothing wrong with camo clothing. We all played “Army” when I was little. Nothing wrong with kids that go out hunting with their parents, either.
Now, I am dressed in camo sweats and sweat shirt...
Comfort clothing.
Another liberal feminist type decrying our allowing little boys to be little boys.
I guess she want us to castrate them and put them in dresses for a tea party.
I would no more allow Laraine Perri near my kid than I would hire Jeffrey Dahmer and Michael Jackson to babysit him.
Me thinks she just a little too emotional.
Instead, the author dresses her child in dungarees, which we all know were the tool the cowboys used to ensnare and enslave the Indians, cutting off tribe from tribe, squaw from chief, papoose from headdress...
Apparently, the author never had a soldier for a hero.
Perhaps the author should look into therapy for her phobia.
Even though she just did. The "C" word comes to mind.
Why is it assumed that it’s dressing kids up as soldiers? Around here, hunting is a big deal. Besides, the chicks dig it. ;)
I would imagine these little boys picked out their favorite stuff for this special occasion. And their favorite stuff this year happens to be cammo.
Get over it lady.
My favorite once upon a time was a miniature version of the WWII A2 flight jacket. I was a big fan of the blacksheep squadron TV series. It also happened to look very much like fonzi’s motorcycle jacket. I even wore it in the summertime.
Everytime I hear “Dungarees” i think of Herb and Les on WKRP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFE31-GzjaY
When you are a kid, camo is cool. Heck, my grown kids sent me camo underwear for my 70th.
My thoughts exactly. This is a person living in an alternate universe. Not welcome anywhere near my kids.
I worked with a great young gal and on her first son’s first birthday I gave her a little camo outfit for the toddler........she and her husband loved it. What was I thinking...........
Despite her best efforts her son will probably grow up not gay.
Another clueless (and judgemental) git intent on demasculinizing her son. Maybe boys like camo clothing because it’s drab. My son has always gone out of his way to avoid bright colors. I can’t get him to wear aqua to match his eyes no matter how much money I offer him.
“dresses for a tea party”
If you let your kid go to a tea party, the President will call him/her a filthy epithet and an extremist, as he did in a private pep talk to dems about the ‘health care’ bill.
While on a business trip, my father stopped at some memoribilia store and bought me an Afrikakorps patch, which my Mom dutifully sewed it onto my CPO jacket, along with other US unit patches, flag patches, etc.
She got quite an irate phone call from my public elementary school teacher, who was quite Jewish.
I think that was the year before I started in private school.
Oh I’m sure this woman would be horrified at the thought of a bunch of mini-hunters.
She’s complaining about the camo outfits as she dresses her own like a fruity popsicle.
What Laraine Perri, Writer and Grammmy Award-winning Producer, fails to realize is that many of these tykes might be dressing up in camo because they want to go into the woods and kill defenseless animals when they grow up.
I guess it would be useless to ask Laraine Perri, Writer and Grammy Award-winning Producer, if the camo pattern was RealTree, chocolate chip, or classic woodland green.
I was talking to a Mom from my daughter's class, who was telling me she wishes she had a son, so she could raise him to be gay, because gay men are just so fabulous in every way.
I asked her about a dozen different ways if she was serious, and, yes, she was serious. I'm not sure what her daughter thought about all that...
I believe that kids should be raised as warriors. It is just a fact of life that self defense will always be neccessary.
Has she ever bought her kid a toy car? Isn’t a car adult?
Shocking. Better not let him dress as a cowboy or give him toy guns to play with. Bad bad bad.
Makes it easier to lose them in the woods...LOL.
It’s fashonable Laraine, kind of like bell bottoms in the 70’s.
It’s not the camo so much I object to -it’s the skulls and crossbones, the deathheads, the mutant images like Transformers, weird SpongeBob—I couldn’t find any decent pajamas, for heaven’s sake, at Target, for all the scary stuff on the pajamas!
Wearing camo makes a statement about values. I wear camo a lot, all year round. It announces things I value...gun rights, appreciation for the outdoors, and if it’s military camo, how I feel about our armed services.
If I had small kids, I’d probably dress them in it, too.
I have no quarrel with dressing in camo clothing- although I think people who do are a bit umm...weird. But when it comes to my kid- all he gets is a T-shirt, blue pants, generic gym shoes and maybe, just maybe a baseball cap. If he wants anything fancier-well- he can get a job and buy them himself.
But you just did, cheap shot lady. You can't take it back with a waffling qualification after the fact. I for one am proud that my son aspires to serve in the Military. It certainly beats aspiring to streetwalking. If that is too much for your ill-informed mind, consider that many hunters wear cammo too.
...skulls and crossbones ... scary stuff on the pajamas.
For sure!
DS1 and DS2 both have various camo clothes because, well, they like them. DS1 had a pair of camo print insulated coveralls as a first-grader that he wore to shreds.
DD would like some of the pink camo-print duds available for girls.
But it’s not 100 percent militaristic. Lots of people hunt around here. I also got the boys a selection of HumVee and bomber shirts and never gave it a second thought.
Matter of fact, since I like the colors, I was thinking about some woodland camo print stuff for me. The greens and browns are “my” colors. Gals of a certain age would remember having their colors done.
Anyway, sure surprised that anyone would snort about camo kids clothes.
It’s from the Christian Science Monitor—the writer’s a peacenik Boston bluestocking, maybe?? We have lots of hunters around here and there’s just something little boys like about the idea of camo!
I’m guessing she is not from the south.
My son’s clothing decisions.......Mossy Oak or Realtree?
Even if she has ever visited the South she would not understand it.
Perhaps because our enemies (islamo facists) dress their children in mock (I hope...) suicide belts.
I wanted to wear camo clothes when I was a kid but I was afraid that if I got lost nobody could find me. But day my dad touched up the brown garage door with green paint and I discovered that color blind people can see camouflage. So it was safe to go into the woods.
Some of those now little boys dressed in cammo will one day likely be in the military defending the country.
The funniest thing is there is a Cabela’s ad at the bottom of the page. What a moron.
Uhhhh........guilty. My son has a black GA shirt with the Georgia spelled out in camo.
I’m guessing her child was on the “have to give him an invite” list. Especially if the invites included kids from his class. In a lot of schools, they frown on excluding anyone from parties because it will lead to hurt feelings. They make a big deal out of it at Open House, especially in the younger grades.
My son has the camo hat and the camo T-shirt..
:-)
So, in the author's insane cesspool of a mind, Soldier <==> Hooker.
Is "Larraine" a neurotic leftist bimbo intent on emascualting her poor unsuspecting son, or an already emasculated urban pansy who might, once, have been something remotely resembling a man?
I used to walk up to kids wearing camo in the school hallway and whisper in their ear , “ I Can Still See You!” The look on there faces was priceless as they had no clue what was talking about .
I even got a role of Camo Duct tape for a Christmas present.Used it to patch tears on the camo jacket .
I really abhor name calling and I teach my kids not to do it. That being said, WHAT A DOOFUS. Don’t show my kids this post! Thanks.
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