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To: SlickWillard
7 year olds crawl into bed on their own.

Unless they fall asleep in the living room. And a lot of dads don't have much to say about how their children (especially the girls) dress. Mom makes all those decisions. As we have seen, Mom marches to a different drummer and probably was quite lenient when it came to the children. That may not be your choice or my choice of how to raise a child, but it doesn't mean she was raising a child for bondage games, either.

My children never wore jewelry, but some little girls do; and it doesn't mean a thing about their moral character, or the moral character of their parents. And some kids get very attached to certain things and beg to take or wear them to bed. An indulgent dad might not want to put up with a scene about it.

I would never put a child to bed wearing a necklace, but this necklace is woven on flexible elastic and is not a choking or strangulation hazard for a 7 year old. Earrings are another matter. I would think that they would hurt (mine do) but I know people who never take them off. My children were not allowed to have pierced ears either.

283 posted on 03/03/2002 12:28:21 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
"And a lot of dads don't have much to say about how their children (especially the girls) dress."

My Hubby must be an exception.

297 posted on 03/03/2002 12:34:49 PM PST by cake_crumb
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