Appreciate it even if you do't understand it. It is not ordained that you comprehend everything that saves your ass.
'Scuse me. 
Posted on 07/01/2007 10:12:22 AM PDT by wagglebee
I think he’s probably aiming for an audience of girls’ fathers, and hoping to get their attention with description of the kind of guys their daughters are probably exposed to.
As I’ve said above, I don’t think it’s a bad concept, just that the presentation doesn’t work for me.
Appreciate it even if you do't understand it. It is not ordained that you comprehend everything that saves your ass.
'Scuse me.
Rule 11: I really don’t care about anyone who waggles their finger at me, saying “tsk, tsk” for the way I express myself. Seriously. Not even a little bit.
“I have a tarp, a shovel, a sack of lime and twenty acres. Back by ten?”
However, what is NOT factored in here is that Planned Parenthood's tax-funded Family Life classes (which are taught in virtually all schools from K-12) is teaching HIS kids the exact opposite of his wishes. This is done without Giles' knowledge or consent.
In fact, PP'hood's tax-funded "Family Life Classes" TEACHES KIDS that it's not necessary that they love their parents, nor do they owe allegiance to their parents.
When you tell parents this, they laugh in your face---figuring NOBODY would ever teach their kids that nonsense BECAUSE THEY WOULD KNOW ABOUT IT.
Better think again.
In some cases, parents have not even been told PP'hood is teaching in their schools. In some cases, the "Family Life Curricula" is kept hidden from parents.
Doug Giles should understand that even though he doesn't want his daughter fooling around........her date is ready and eager----and has probably been supplied with condoms by PP'hood.
Giles' daughter may also have been equipped for sexual activty by PP'hood without her parents' knowledge or consent.
That's a fairly safe assumption. From my perspective though, one of the first thoughts that came to my mind was "oh, he'll make for an annoying in-law". :)
As I’ve said above, I don’t think it’s a bad concept, just that the presentation doesn’t work for me.
I totally agree with you, but for a different reason (I wrote why in post #46 or 47, I think)
bookmark for ideas.
When I was a young man, dads that were over the top like this guy just made me want to nail his daughter just for spite. I don't mean the ones who legitimately ask about you, your life, plans for the evening, and such. Any dad that neglected that isn't much of a dad. But 99% of the job of protecting your daughter is done before the doorbell ever rings.
“But 99% of the job of protecting your daughter is done before the doorbell ever rings.”
BTTT
Well said.
Im trying to raise mine to not even give
a thug punk the time of day.
To expect and deserve more from her own perspective.
I will keep a very close eye on potential daters anyway, of course, while at the same time letting them know I have very, very high expectations of them.
Mine's 16, and I happen to like the good ol' boy redneck that they have both eyed each other for ... but there's 10 years' difference.
36 vs. 26 doesn't bother me nor most people as much as 26 vs. 16.
I guess that’s my point - he’s gotten to have his cake and eat it too. He lived crazy and wild, got forgiven (I guess), but now he wants to afford little or no opportunity to others. There are a lot of people who look different, act different, etc. but aren’t drug addicts or who have shot people.
It’s nice when a piece of writing finds its audience. He’s a fairly popular writer, so I knew there had to be many for whom this was exactly right.
As many have noticed, I am a woman, after all, so it’s safe to say that he’s not writing for me.
No, me either. My brother was 31 and his first wife 21 when they got married, and he was 41 and his second wife 27 when they got married! Once everyone is an adult, it's up to them what age they like!
I was a bit shocked to find my new sister-in-law is closer to my daughter's age than mine, though :-).
he passed away in 2000 at 84 years old. i still miss his gruff manner and his cowboy hat. (he raised horses and farmed) once his jackass hee-hawed in a distant field and he told me to keep my cousin quiet. (i was never good enough for his daughter because he thought that both of his daughters were the most beautiful in the world; i thought only one of them had that distinct quality.)
he kept his distance and never got too close but that was o.k. i only loved his daughter, not him.
he will be missed.
Sure, they’re excellent points. But he’s dreaming if he thinks he can control his daughter’s boyfriends by doing the tough-guy act. The boyfriends will pretend to be respectful as long as dad is around. After that there is only 1 thing coming between his little man and our girls, and that’s our girls.
The only measure of control we have as dads is how well we have done our jobs of raising them.
interesting thread...
“I admire a man who will go to great lengths to protect his daughters. If there were more of that in the world today, there would be a lot fewer problems with STd, teen pregnancy, broken families, etc.”
Amen to that!!! My husband could have written that piece, we have 4 beautiful daughters and one son.
Come on folks, where is your sense of humor? Putting that sort of thing in nice, polite, grammatically perfect, tea-party English would make him sound like a silly fool.
Except that it's been satirized ad infinitum before and the SENSIBLE points, as you put it, are simply basic common sense. It's trite at best, dangerously naive at worst.
Come on folks, where is your sense of humor?
It's being used on things that are actually funny.
Putting that sort of thing in nice, polite, grammatically perfect, tea-party English would make him sound like a silly fool.
No, Giles does that all by his lonesome.
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