Yeah, no kidding. That's exactly what my daughter thought. "Wow, they're weird."

Didn't bother her much. She's got friends to spare without worrying about people who would reject her for that sort of thing. Especially when these girls do things that are much worse.

Got a letter A on me now, huh? Well, I told you I was an A student. ;)

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Yeah, but its taking FOREVER!

Please don't think I was calling you disrespectful, I was not at all.

It would drive us all insane if we worried about whether or not every little freaking thing we did might offend someone...for FSM's sake, that's what's gotten us into this freaking PC crazy world we are in right now.

My daughter is going to a sleepover party for a friend that she met through school, and is in our Daisy troop. I will ask what they plan on doing for the night when we drop her off. If there is anything I wish my daughter didn't participate in, I'll let them know, as well as tell my daughter WHY I don't want her to do it.

Should she come home and tell me they ended up doing whatever it was I didn't agree with, lets say, watched a horror movie (they are 6) and ate candy all night, so that she comes home exhausted and terrified to go to sleep that night, I would be pissed, (mostly because i have to spend the next 48 hours with a brat) but depending on the actual damage done I'm not sure how I would handle the situation. Ask me Monday :)


Edited to add, I really am pretty easy going, and I really doubt that there is anything that would happen that would bother me to the point of me not letting her go, or not letting her play with said friend after the fact. It's my responsibilty to explain to my daughter why I don't agree, why I don't want her to do whatever, and her responsibility to respect my wishes, or suffer the punishment if she chooses not to...

Party at my house!
Cocaine and knives!

LabRat's daughter's in - anyone else?

[kidding]

:lol:

LOL @ SG. Very good!

Oh and I just PM'd you - lil lookout is in too, but don't tell his dad ;)

What time should I drop off the nieces? :lol:

oh, you gotta highlight that text for it to be accurate.

Y'know, as a darkie, I expected that at some point in my life I would be subject to racism. I am 33, and I have yet to experience any such behavior of note. (Score one for race-relations in America!)

What I have experienced, from the time I was 5 till the present day, is religious bigotry. Ostracism, being dumped, being questioned on my right to:

1. exist
2. be a citizen
3. claim to be a "good person"
4. be successful
5. et cetera

I'm with Flint. I had to learn that lesson a long time ago; it was painful (my best friend never spoke to me again when she found out I was an Athiest) but a very necessary introduction to reality.

We elected a black man to the presidency; we will never elect an unbeliever.

Um...there are some that argue that he IS an unbeliever. Or that he believes in something other than what he purports to believe in.

I dunno, myself. I'm just sayin'.

But I am really glad to hear you've never dealt personally with racism. Very glad.

But that's exactly it. I realize that many "believers" out there may just be paying lip-service to the conventions. But they don't stand up for their lack of belief, and that's just as bad. D'you really think Blaggie over in Chicago is a good, upstanding member of the Serbian Orthodox church? And yet his purported Christianity was important to getting elected.

Me too! :D

Oh no you di'int say darkie. You crack me up Pie.

I think I alluded to that same general thing once: believing because you're supposed to believe or "just in case" isn't really believing anything at all.

I thought this thread was about Ojai, California

I wouldn't want my kids playing with a Ouija board. They're not really in the general circulation of kids games here though, so I think it's probably different.

I just think about the first time Aden got one of those scarey 'pass this on or you'll die in 13 hours' emails and the consequences of it. (that was a year or more ago now though so I suppose things have changed, but he did recall it just a couple of days ago and say how scared he was when he got it)

So I don't know about it really, but right now if someone suggested it, I'd be wary, but I wouldn't stop the kids if they wanted to play.

I think you only need to worry if one of the girls' heads starts spinning around. I've heard that's a bad sign.