Posted on 03/13/2006 12:09:46 PM PST by klossg
Parents can get help on sexuality through John Paul II's teaching of The Theology of the Body.
BUMP!
My daughters must pass inspection before they go to school. And having them go to a school where my wife teaches helps as well. No sneaking skimpy shorts or tops in their book bag....
my girls wear what i tell them to wear or I swore to them they would be all wearing school uniforms
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Tell me about it. This attitude is everywhere.
I'd like to meet and smack the kids that started the outrage of boys wearing their pants down to their thighs.
I have only boys but friends with girls say shopping for school clothing is a bear. They offer sexy stuff for first graders! All I have to worry about is the youngest keeping his pants above his crack.
Just wait until you have to share that problem in regards to teenage girls, with the high school teachers here in the San Fernando Valley.
All too many of the girls here have their "cracks" showing, and I mean in the BACK. As a parent of two of the most modestly dressed girls in such schools, I am no less than scandalized by this trend, for it was not that long ago that I was a boy with raging hormones, and if it had been like this in my own high school days, I would have never learned anything of academic substance. Fortunately for me, I went to an all-boys high school. We actually thought about the curriculum. Imagine that!
So we are supposed to think that rape and drugs will be controllable in this environment? Don't tell me rape isn't part of the equation. Hell, if a boy thus enticed by a girl can get it for free with her consent, what's the difference? He ends up raping her physical innocence, if not her moral sense.
The slippage is not just in clothes, it's in moral standards.
She was in the pool.
What? Oh, nevermind.
That would be the girls that pay attention to them. Girls set the moral standards for the boys. If all the girls would simply ignore the boys who "sag" (that's the name of the practice of wearing pants at the hip socket level or LOWER), then trust me, the boys would knock it off overnight, guaranteed.
I saw a Barbie-looking cheerleader run up to someone she was excited to see, and then as they started to hug, she rolled her hips forward like she was trying to polish the other's belt buckle with her groin. But that's not all: the "other" was another girl. They tell me that about a third of the senior girls claim to be "lesbo" or "bi."
When the boys run laps in PE, they wear their PE shorts so low their underwear is entirely showing. They scuffle on the track unable to move their legs above the knee because that's where the shorts are sagged to. They have to hold the elastic waist up with one finger so the shorts don't fall off all the way. And the girls watch this. Like I said, if the girls ignored it, it would stop. The coaches are a pile of wimps who have been cowed into submission by the LAUSD administration who tells them not to make things too difficult for the kids, for fear of lawsuits for "discrimination." You see, most of the offending boys are Mexican or Black, and that would be racist, get it?
**He ends up raping her physical innocence, if not her moral sense.**
I agree with all that you said. One thing, though. Now that I am being a mom to boys and know them so well, I know that they are really sweet and innocent as much as the girls are. Both boys and girls have raging hormones - not one is doing anything TO the other and both are tempting to the other. The trick for parents is to foil them at every turn! And good luck on that one!:)
You are barking up the wrong tree, my friend. Theology of the Body is a pile of garbage, and I don't mind saying so. I am Catholic, so you can't blame me for not being one. The sad fact is, the entire legacy of JPII is a tragic blemish on the history of the Church or worse. Take my advice and don't even go there. Before you know it you'll be suckered in to having dilusions of ambiguity between sacrament and sex. It makes me shudder to wonder what must have been going through the mind of this man when he celebrated Mass. Nothing more obscene is possible in philosophy than to confuse the one with the other, and that is precisely what this conundrum, Theology of the Body, does.
If you don't know what you're talking about, my warning should be sufficient, but if you do know and are trying to deliberately lead others into the snake pit of deception, the place you are headed is no place anyone in their right mind would want to go. So beware.
Thanks. I needed that.
Let's see if I get this.
School identifies a problem. School writes a respectful e-mail reminding parents of the standards. Columnist gets (pink?) panties in a twist because school didn't call out parents as heathens and didn't expel any of the future hookers. Columnist then milks it for a whole column.
Okay, got it.
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