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Utah Dad Wears Short Shorts To Teach Daughter About Modesty
NBC Bay Area ^ | Friday, Sep 13, 2013 | An Phung

Posted on 09/13/2013 12:56:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Utah dad made a "small" change to teach his daughter a big lesson about modesty.

Fed up with his daughter's love for short denim shorts, Scott Mackintosh, a father of seven from Salt Lake City, left the house for a family outing in a pair of very short shorts after the teenager refused to change into something more modest.

"I heard my wife ask our daughter if she would please change into some longer shorts before leaving. She said 'NO!'" MacKintosh wrote on his wife's blog. "Instead of turning her response and disrespectful attitude into a major battle, I decided to make a 'small' statement on how her short-shorts maybe aren’t as 'cute' as she thinks!"

MacKintosh took a pair of old jeans and cut them so short that the whites of the pockets were hanging out. At first, his daughter did not notice his new look. When she did, she played it off like she didn't care, he said.

The father talked to NBC's Mike Taibbi about his agenda behind the shorn jeans.

"I was absolutely going for shock value and a little bit of embarassment," he said in a segment that appeared on the Today show.

The embarrassment finally sank in when the family stopped for milkshakes and she refused to leave the car.

"We went in, but she stayed in the car. She had had enough and did not want to go through any further embarrassment," he wrote.

MacKintosh's wife and other kids, however, were not daunted by his fashion statement. Photos that they snapped went viral after they posted it online, prompting MacKintosh to write about the full story on his wife's blog.


TOPICS: Education; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fashion; parenting
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To: PrincessB

Big difference in a girl running around in men’s boxer shorts as opposed to wearing Daisy Dukes. I doubt the boys were having evil thoughts because of your boxers.


21 posted on 09/13/2013 3:18:00 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: Venturer

You sound like a miserable person to be around.


22 posted on 09/13/2013 3:43:37 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: nickcarraway

OK! OK! YOU WIN! AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! MAKE IT STOP!!1!

23 posted on 09/13/2013 3:56:19 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: nickcarraway

Excellent man. Point WELL made.


24 posted on 09/13/2013 3:57:30 PM PDT by Truth2012
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To: martin_fierro

Yes, that is short, but it isn’t immodest if one considers what is worn on a beach. This father has my sympathy, given what is deemed appropriate in our society today.


25 posted on 09/13/2013 4:01:39 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: waxer1

That story made me laugh!
As a middle school principal, we’ll see some pretty interesting clothing come through the school. However, shorts, and skirts MUST be at least fingertip length or the student has to call for appropriate clothing. No bare bellies, tank tops or any other sort of skimpy clothing is allowed either.

As a parent of two high school daughters, I can tell you we don’t buy this type of clothing for them, but kids will buy some of their own or borrow from friends. Mine don’t even think of wearing it to school though since I’m in the same building. (Grade 6-12 building)


26 posted on 09/13/2013 4:03:58 PM PDT by Baumer (Most areas of Washington are Republican)
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To: nickcarraway
I was wondering why they let her buy them. But maybe, like the father, she altered a pair of jeans.

I know with our girls...we've bought shorts that are only to be worn at the beach or pool (over their swimming suits). If they wanted to wear them elsewhere, the answer would be "no". Maybe that's what happened here.

27 posted on 09/13/2013 4:10:32 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: nickcarraway
This is about the stupidest story I have read in a while...

What happened to parents of today...?

"I heard my wife ask our daughter if she would please change into some longer shorts before leaving. She said 'NO!'"

My children (six) of them would have NEVER told me NO....That simply was not going to happen with out serious consequences... if they did it only happened once...

Dad is a freaking wuss...little miss princess would be left home without use of her phone, Ipad, computer...to starve...and sulk....she also would have been grounded for at at least a couple of days...grounded meaning "in your room" denuded of anything tech...until you figure out how to get rid of that crappy attitude...

28 posted on 09/13/2013 4:39:13 PM PDT by Popman (Liberal wars are about killing people for humanitarian reasons...)
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To: sunrise_sunset

My friends do not think so, my kids love me.

My parents taught me not to sass them and I taught mine not to sass me.

Of course today that is no longer taught.

Respect is something missing today. I had it , my kids have it. My Grand kids have it.
If that makes me a miserable person I am proud of it.


29 posted on 09/13/2013 6:00:29 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: Popman
I think the dad was smart...

Yes, it was his goal that his daughter not wear inappropriate clothing. But, his larger goal was for her to learn by her own experience - not by compulsory force.

The older kids get, the more important it is that they have learned to make good choices with an understanding of why they are doing it. A parent won't always be around to force a child to make the right choice, and it is better, in my opinion, to help them learn when the opportunity is there.

Force and enforcement still has a more limited place in raising kids, but a wise parent exercises influence without force when it is feasible and possible to do so, IMHO.

Plus, I expect that this girl knows that her Dad's primary motivation is love for her, even though peer pressure/the desire for her peers' approval is very high.

30 posted on 09/13/2013 6:46:09 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: Baumer

She bought it with her babysitting money. When I started earning my money babysitting I bought my own clothes. But my parents still had a say about it. But they were a little more relaxed about it. That one must have slipped by them. We still laugh about it.


31 posted on 09/13/2013 8:23:16 PM PDT by waxer1 (A Republic if you can keep it--Benjamin Franklin. Well we lost it.)
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To: randita

Um its a shirt it never beat a wife . just like a gun never shot anyone.


32 posted on 09/14/2013 4:22:14 AM PDT by sopwith (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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