Posted on 10/18/2005 8:33:29 AM PDT by Millee
Isn't there anyone in charge? -----Oh, yeah, the kids!
Sounds to me like they are testing for limits ---- and they are not getting them.
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Ehh, I like dress-down church. It's more natural and sincere. I'm a flip flops guy. I wouldn't attend a church that required a dress code. God doesn't require one
The point is that He is to be approached reverently, not casually. "Give of your best to the master" as the hymn goes. If jeans and a t-shirt are the only thing you have, if they are your "best", then I wouldn't have a problem.
The problem is when people who know better, and can do better, choose to be lazy about serving the Lord. When you put your personal comfort first, and serving Him second, that's selfish idolatry.
Knights wore ceremonail armor because it was their best. Togas and robes were worn, but I would venture to say that the ones worn were the best, as were the buckskins, as are today's Dockers.
However, when one approaches the Lord with a casual heart and in a flippant manner, it shows.
That sounds like a homophobic remark.
These "pajama" bottoms are neither more nor less than thin sweatpants without the elastic at the ankle, covered with whimsical designs or plaids. All three of my children (college, high school, elementary school) wear them, often from the moment they get home from school. (They haven't yet been swept up in a fad of wearing them to school).
At my youngest daughter's birthday party this weekend, eight eleven year-old girls showed up in jeans or shorts, then immediately went upstairs and changed into the "pajama" pants they brought in their hands or backpacks.
My daughter's friends show up at the house after school and change into the "pajama" pants from their bookbags.
They may wear a pair to bed, but T Minus Four's probably correct when he says the girls don't roll out of bed in them and go to school.
Wearing pajama pants is no different from wearing sweat pants, warm-up suit pants, or (in my day) the pants from a pair of doctors' scrubs. They just happen to be called "pajama" pants. I would pick bigger battles to fight. If you want to prohibit sweat pants, warm-up suit pants, and MD scrubs pants at school, then I can see lumping these "pajama" pants in the same category.
Don't get caught up in the name -- these are just thin sweat pants covered with a whimsical design.
Same here. Except there was a special outdoor area for the smokers.
What I meant to add is that these are a current TYPE of casual pants called "pajama" pants. You don't buy a pair of pamajas and throw away the tops -- they are inexpensive (and obviously comfortable) thin sweat pants printed with whimsical designs.
I'll bet nine out of ten pair are worn for casual comfort and are never worn to bed as pajamas.
I know now how my mother feels when we fess up to stuff that happened umpteen years ago. She doesn't want to hear it! When my oldest starts telling me the escapades I didn't know about, I tell him to SHUT UP!!
She also wears destroyed denim jeans purchased at A & F for a pretty penny (her own money earned from supervised babysitting & her allowance from which she first tithes diligently). She is aware of the poverty some of her fellow classmates live in and is in no way mocking them. In fact, she is one of the first to notice and is always going through her own things to give to others less fortunate. She always has been a giving and generous child. BTW, in case others don't notice, poor kids don't always wear torn clothing.
I know my daughter's character is intact regardless of what she wears. In the case of some "hyper-moral conservative" adults however, dressing up is like putting lipstick on a pig.
I don't think wearing them to school looks any different that the scrubs and sweat pants that were popular when I was in school. I don't think they should be worn to church however.
Why would anyone want to go to Starbucks?
I'm sure you are very proud of your daughter and you have apparently done a great job raising her. If only there were more parents like you.
And here I thought it was bad at lunchtime yesterday, when I saw a chick wearing tight pants and t-shirt, with a camisole much longer than the shirt hugging her hips.
She was a looker, too. One day I'm going to get slapped, because I won't be able to resist the temptation to say something like, "Those are wonderful. Thanks for putting them on display!"
Today is tacky day at my kid's middle school as this week is school spirit week. I always walk into the office in the mornings to drop off copies made for our PTO or some "treats" for the office staff or to pick up volunteer schedules and so forth. I watched the kids come in dressed in what they deem tacky attire and, along with the office staff, nearly cried from laughing so much. These kids definately have a sense of humor. All of the kids were in good spirits and really enjoying themselves.
Sounds like you're a hair older than me; I was a child of the '70s. My sister wore leotards to grade school, with leg warmers. It was all the rage, thanks to "flashdance".
LOL, I saw 2 teenage girls just yesterday on their way to school in jammie bottoms and sweatshirts. One appeared to be wearing slippers. Hopefully it's just a fad.
I think it's good they get to do things like that. Most students work hard and there is a lot of pressure on students with testing and all. It's nice they get a break and a chance to laugh.
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