f you feel good about a potential suitor, go to your daughter and ask her if she is open to getting better acquainted with this fellow. If she says yes, get ready to do a lot of chaperoning. It is usually pretty boring. The younger kids love it though. It gives them a lot to talk about, and they make a game of not letting the couple get away with anything. They are omnipresent. It is like having 24-hour, closed circuit surveillance of the courting couple.
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The lack of social graces and self-esteem that you cause could limit her career choices. Better teach her to say, "Hi, there, sailor."
"It is like having 24-hour, closed circuit surveillance of the courting couple."
Yeah I understand you want to watch your offspring, um, 'courting'.
Perv.
So, let me get this straight. Some guy spots your daughter and fancies her. Then he talks to you. Then you decide if he is 'worthy' somehow, and if so, you ask your daughter if she'd like to get to know him.
I'm surprised you bother to ask her at all. Why not just take it one step further and make it an arranged marriage? After all, that goes well with your medieval attitudes.
And teaching the younger siblings to be spies and tattle-tales? Great parenting from Mike, once again.
Oh for Christs sake get over the whole sex thing and just let them fuck. We have been made to feel guilty about sex for centuries thanks to religion. How about we educate our children, teach them about safe sex and just let them enjoy it. Perhaps if you allow them to have boys in their own bedroom they will be able to have sex in a safe environment where they have some control over the situation rather than loosing it in the back seat of some dudes car or something equally as crappy.
And yes, I am a father of two daughters
The funny thing is, that earlier in just this article he gives arguments against the, from fundamentalists slo much preferred, homeschooling :D
@From the article
Many homeschooled boys are lazy and never develop a will to suffer the pain of work.
Bad thing for them, had their parents sent them to a regular school maybe they would have developed into hard working anmd affluent members of society :D
Fortunately, however fucked up my mother was, she was at least sane. For that, I will forever be grateful. If I ever wonder if my childhood could have been worse, all I have to do is read good old Michael and know what a hell it could have been.
The older kids being spied on are not the ones who are really going to suffer here. It is the younger children, who will grow up with a fucked-up idea of what love and relationships really are. If I were a Pearl daughter, and I was being spied on I'd threaten the young 007 with the truth. Hey, kid, this is going to happen to you when you're a teenager, and you're not going to like it.
Junior Anti-Sex League ASSEMBLE!
Hank -- "No temptress gets ME!"
Deborah -- "It would be thoughtcrime to give my body to a non-designate!"
Cubby -- "I spy for Jesus!"
Velma -- "The only love I need is Big Brother's!"
Does Michael realize many of the kind of kids who'd monitor and tattle on others' behavior are the kind that also lie?
Now that's hell. Even if they want to get cute, their "friends" are always there to stop it.
What a lot of souless inhuman pricks
And despite all that, their marriages are wretched, according to statistics, because, despite the 24 hours surveillance, those suitors are not what they seemed to be.
Oh, it's this guy again. Stupid fundie two-leg bastard. Selection of a mate really isn't something that parents or young children should be involved in. Seriously, it's none of your damn business. Besides, younger kids can easily be bribed with foods.
If my father ever goes to my boyfriend and interrogates him like M.P. says he should, I'd never speak to him again. And if my boyfriend is okay with it, I'd never speak to HIM again, either. Have you never heard of the idea of trusting your children to make their own choices? Especially once they're adults.
DAUGHTER: [crossing fingers behind back]: "All right, kids, I'm going out with my boyfriend tonight! We're going to a really exciting movie about a bunch of people who sit around for hours talking about why it's important to eat your vegetables! Bet you can't wait to come along to make sure we can't get away with anything!"
Problem solved.
If my dad had intervened in my, or any of my siblings, "courtship", we would never have talked to him again.
Thankfully, he was born during the twentieth century and realized that we could handle that on our own.
If we wanted help, he was there, of course.
Do you really want the younger kids to see fellatio and cunnilingus at that tender age?
But, I guess that's all the sex ed they're ever going to have, so go for it!
Confused?
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