I guess the “New” Boy Scouts are exempt from this...aye?
These people are F-ing pigs!
So in essence these loons think that kids will engage in homosexuality, smoke pot, drink booze, watch porn, and be grumpy the next morning.
Sounds more like parents that are projecting what they are into.
The dumbest among us...
Whats just too creepy
I’m so glad it was presented as a slideshow. I just wouldn’t understand it without all the irrelevant photos.
Oh NO!!! I just stepped back and thought what that might look like to a liberal. We smoke cigars, drink beer and bourbon, gamble, kill animals with guns and then eat them. I guess my kids will have a tough time adjusting when they are adults.
That was the stupidest article that I have ever read. Sleepovers were great fun! We rented videos, gave each other makeovers, played truth or dare and just had a blast! The closest thing to anything this chicken little listed was Bonnie and I watching a rated R movie. We were both 15 at the time.
A bit too late for some of these concerns what with (A) the “legalize it” movement to encourage the repeal of all laws on all substances. Having age discriminatory laws is just going to create an underground economy (which already exists for those using drugs, meaning that legalization won't end trafficking). (B) Planned Parenthood's “just say yes” branch of sex education lobbying (SIECUS) and the schools rejection of the concept of abstinence (it's sex negative, don't you know). (C) Network television's total end of the notion of a “standards and practices” department to reject jokes about oral sex, menstruation, diarrhea, prostitution, etc. in the family hour (all of those references could be found in a single episode of Two And A Half Men).
Don’t let your kid sleep over with his or her pals. Instead, send them to sleepovers put on by the Gay Scouts.
The school in which I teach was recently embroiled in a very public rape case. These kids all did the “I’m staying at a friends house” thing. Before everybody chimes in about thier kids, these students are all (with exception to one) in our scholars’ program, have iPhones, were given cars at 16, and are from “good” families. Their parents own small businesses, are doctors and lawyers, and drive nice SUVs. These students are the cream of the crop, they volunteer 100+ hours per school year, compete in Mock Trial, and are on the executive board of the KEY Club. They get wonderful scholarships and are accepted into the best schools. Some parents buy alcohol because they want their kids to be popular, and your kids know who those parents are. They keep the secret very well. All the students know what’s going on and are well organized with keeping it from parents and teachers. Children’s sleepovers don’t worry me so much, but what they lead to later on scares me. As it turns out, these students have been drinking since middle school. It’s happening everywhere, even in your own kids’ peer groups.
Reason 9: Roman Polanski is staying at Woody's that night.
This is ridiculous. Too many children today are so controlled that it’s no wonder that so many of them are afraid to leave home in their 20’s.
Because all the boys are homophobic and the girls are chaste. That’s my guess why no sleep overs.
When one of my friends had me over for a sleepover back in the early 1960s on a ranch, the parents were away for a long period of time. We quite naturally got out the guns, shot, loaded and made our own ammunition, and had a ball. Guess these people could list that as reason #8 :)
Uh... yeah, sure. I met you 10 minutes ago, know nothing about you, your home or your lifestyle, but heck, let me hand over my preschooler for the night.
Crazy, right? But you'd be surprised at just how many parents are A-OK with this type of scenario. And people want to call me a nut?
My girls do have sleepovers. We know the other little girls and generally know the parents (as well as you can "know" anyone). On the rare occasion, they've done slumber parties for birthdays where the parents were just acquaintences. As my kids get older, I know this will come up more often, and I know I'll probably be a lot stricter than many, if not most, of their friends' parents. BTW, co-ed sleepovers a big thing in high schools around here.
Oh and p.s. — the grumpiness factor is very very real! lol
Unbelievable indeed. Every ‘reason’ given was the most piddly assed thing I have ever seen.....on no my child might be cranky and sleepy after a slumber party. As if slumber parties were the thing that children did every weekend.....morons
