Posted on 04/20/2011 4:29:15 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
I get it, Rihanna's really popular. But that's a pretty weak reason for someone to dress their little girl like her.
I don't care how popular Lil' Wayne is, my son knows I would break both of his legs long before I would allow him to walk out of the house with his pants falling off his butt. Such a stance doesn't always makes me popular -- and the house does get tense from time to time -- but I'm his father, not his friend.
Friends bow to peer pressure. Parents say, "No, and that's the end of it."
The way I see it, my son can go to therapy later if my strict rules have scarred him. But I have peace knowing he'll be able to afford therapy as an adult because I didn't allow him to wear or do whatever he wanted as a kid.
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The craziest thing now is the maternity clothes. What pregnant woman in her right mind wants to wear spandex tights and little t-shirts that show every contour of her pushed-out navel? (Probably the one who’s 39 and between her Pilates lesson and her lipo appointment ;-).
In my last several pregnancies, I bought large dresses at The Salvation Army, and as I grew larger, I re-donated the previous batch and bought bigger ones!
I too have been wearing men's jeans since my early twenties. I am wearing now, as I type.
Dress slacks are a different matter. There was a brand ( Karen Scott) that had well fitting lined pants that were perfect for the office. They were completely machine washable in hot water and were as durable as a knight's chain mail. I didn't even need to try them on. I bought them right off the rack...but...Macys doesn't carry them any more. ( sniff)
I am retired now so I only need one or two pair. I now sew my own. I have the time and I don't mind.
By the way, I have missed you, Amelia, and SoftballmominVA over on the education threads. You guys kept things interesting.
Thank you for the suggestions.
Since I am retired I most hang around in jeans, but once in while I do need a more dressy pair of paints.
There is actually more we agree on than disagree :)
For some reason, which I have long forgotten, I had made a conscious decision to only wear skirts or dresses to work. It was 1978 and I was working on Wall St. when I made that decision, and with the exception of a couple of part time stints as a convenience store clerk, a cook, and a waitress, I stuck to that in my “professional” work until the spring of 1998 when I was pregnant and actually wore capris to the State Capitol a couple of times. I reverted right back to the skirts/dresses after that until I left that line of work and moved to a farm in 2003.
Now I live on a farm and live in jeans, but I have a pretty extensive “dress” wardrobe that all fits, never goes out of style, and I always look very nice (if I say so myself) at church on Sunday :)
Except for jaunts to the library or to a friend’s house I had been off line for well over a year and have only recently gotten back at home, and am not spending as much time at the computer as I used to, as I picked up a few other interests in the interim :)
I’ve been through this twice: first with my daughter, now with my granddaughter. I know exactly what you mean.
On the contrary, I think she's an excellent role model, and I've been holding her up as an excellent to a couple of young women (*) in my class (one in particular) who seem to think that they don't have to do anything because they'll get by on looks and charm.
They fail to see that they are lacking in charm and their looks will only last until they tick off the wrong guy and he goes all Chris Brown on their face.
(*) I will not call them young ladies.
“Tramps” is not politically correct. Don’t use “hobo” or “bum”. They are “The Address-Challenged”.
Count me as another one for men’s pants and shorts. All the stuff in ladieswear is trashy! Men’s stuff holds up better too, and so do the t-shirts, since I’m perfectly content wearing plain solid colors.
Tacky mother = tacky kid
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