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7 Reasons to Say No to Sleepovers (unbelievable!)
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| Julie Christensen
Posted on 08/06/2013 3:28:27 PM PDT by Maceman
Think the anti-sleepover movement is the result of overprotective parenting? Read on to learn the seven top reasons that some moms and dads are just saying "no" to sleepovers.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: liberals; parenting
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Words fail me. God save us from meddling "experts." Just too creepy.
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:28:27 PM PDT
by
Maceman
To: Maceman
I guess the “New” Boy Scouts are exempt from this...aye?
These people are F-ing pigs!
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:31:52 PM PDT
by
Artcore
To: Maceman
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.
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:32:07 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
To: Maceman
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:32:32 PM PDT
by
nixonsnose
(you never know how much pee splatters until you are standing at the urinal in flip flops.)
To: Maceman
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:34:02 PM PDT
by
CGASMIA68
To: t1b8zs
Read the subtext: everyone's out to get your kid!
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:36:23 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Maceman
To: Maceman
It's a scary thought, but when your kid's away at a sleepover, there's no way for you to control what happens.
This is the defining sentence and sums up everything about the Left. They have an excessive fear of not being in control and so they exhibit an excessive desire to control everything.
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:38:41 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Maceman
I’m so glad it was presented as a slideshow. I just wouldn’t understand it without all the irrelevant photos.
To: OneWingedShark
cant find that,where is it?
To: VanDeKoik
There are parents who want their kids to do those things too.
Talk about freaks
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:41:29 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Maceman
Just a bunch of nanny state weenies that fear their own shadows. I had sleep overs when I was a kid. Geez, I went camping with friends, no adults, when I was 10 ... granted my grandmother's house was a mile up the road. My kids still have sleep overs, but they are getting to an age when they don't call it sleeping over anymore. I guess that also applies to me, since I have "sleep overs" when I go fishing and hunting and I am pushing 50.
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.
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:42:10 PM PDT
by
ConservativeInPA
(Molon Labe - shall not be questioned)
To: Maceman
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.
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:43:44 PM PDT
by
chae
(I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
To: t1b8zs
Look in the “experimentation” and “inappropriate touching” sections — the touching one, especially... they’re too timid to say what they really mean [rape] so they pack a lot of stuff into the subtext. (At least that’s how I read it.)
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:45:30 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: chae
Todays kids have been told from the time they are 10 or 11 that there is something wrong with them if they aren’t having sex and crap.
Those kids should be watched closely.
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:46:37 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Maceman
7. Next-Day Grumpies (they stay up too late and make a mess)
6. Developmental Readiness (can't be expected to abide by somebody else’s “house rules”).
5. Awkward Social Situations (strange families may not share your ideas on anything or have older teens in the home)
4. Academic Performance (too many late night weekend pizza parties will affect your kid's weekday performance)
3. Mature Media and Activities (Letting your kid spend the night away means giving up control of what she's doing, eating and watching)
2. Experimentation ( drug and alcohol use among teens is on the rise and many kids try their first drink before age 14. “Generally, nothing constructive happens with a group of adolescents at 3 a.m.,” says Utay.)
1. Inappropriate Contact ( be sure to talk to your child about inappropriate touching, with peers and adults)
bonus - Your Call (don't be afraid to make an unpopular decision)
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).
To: posterchild
The photos were included to require more click throughs. Some webheads think it allows for better tracking of readership and increases “hit counts”.
To: OneWingedShark
Oh OK, sub-text, aka read between the lines.
Never mind
To: aruanan
You nailed it! The article should be re-titled “A Psychiatrist’s Notes On A Neurotic Parent.”
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posted on
08/06/2013 3:51:32 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
To: a fool in paradise
I know why they do it. It’s just annoying and I would think it turns more people away than it’s worth.
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