Just shake your head

[zman1]

My youngest son is graduating High school in about two weeks. He and two friends are working on his car. I just looked out the window to see what they were doing and all I saw were three skinny kids leaned over, pants nearly falling off and half their boxer shorts hanging out. I just had to shake my head and think, I wonder what my dad thought when I was that age We had longer hair than the norm today and bell bottom jeans that you could parachute with if you needed.

 

[ruaround]

i was playing disc golf yesterday and there was this group of kids in front of us... no shirts hats on crooked and levis practically around their knees with thier boxers showin... shook my head and thought WTF??? and then there was this other group that had the absolute tightest pants that were high watered...looked like clam diggers...somethin a girl should be wearing... i had to laugh and shake my head...

 

[emmitt]

Style is obe thing but having your underwear hanging out is another. My daughter is only 4 and i shudder to think how low pants will be when she is a teenager. Call me old fashioned but she will not have underwear hanging out, tattoos or piercings. When we were kids we may have looked like idiots with our parachute pants and ridiculous hair but at least we didnt ruin our bodies permanently. Seriously, i think they passed a law requiring a pierced tongue and 3 tattoos before you can graduate high school in Florida.

 

[phixer]

Thats reassuring. Hearing this stuff scares the heck out of me thinking what I have to look forward too.

 

[sula]

Being a parent of teensagers gives you oh-so-many opportunities for biting your tongue. For a time, I was seriously considering purchasing an ad in my home town newspaper to say in big block letters:
DEAR MOM AND DAD: PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY FOR EVERYTHING I SAID FROM 1975 - 1985.
I might still do it...

 

[beth]

The hanging pants is pretty much a hip-hop "male" thing, and clothes styles with kids is not universal. When my son was a teen, in addition to the hanging pants/exposing drawers in other groups of kids, his group wore chains that hung in a loop around the belt loops. Usually the chain would not loop any lower than around the upper leg where the leg meets the body. However, I will never forget the day when one of his friends showed up with a thick chain hanging from the wait all the way down to his feet. The chain was so think, I think it weighted more than the kid! LOL
With kids, I learned not to get so excited about "clothes and what they wear". Believe me, at that age, there is plenty more things to get excited about. It really is all just growing pains/ fads.
When I was kid, my parents were such nags about clothes. I simply went around it by wearing what they approved of in front of them, and packing what I was really going to wear and changing once I went out. LOL

 

[dragonladylea]

I'll never forget when one of my co-workers asked me what I did over the weekend and then actually yelled at me when I told her. "I went with my son to get his tattoo". When he came to me and told me he wanted one it really sent me down memory lane. My father absolutely flipped out when he found out I had gotten a small butterfly tattoo on the back of my shoulder. We had a long discussion about it because it was just about the spot that his "lips" tattoo was that he got in the Navy. But according to him it was different I was a girl!! I took a different tactic with my son. We discussed the fact that he would have to live with his decision for the rest of his life and he needed to choose wisely if thats what he wanted. He asked my to help him design it and I am happy with the choice he made. A Cross with the Celtic trinity. Something he really believes in Faith, Mind, Body and Spirit.
I fully believe we need to guide our children but let them keep their individuality, If my son getting a tattoo is the worst thing he ever does I am truly blessed.

 

[37g joe]

I am 24 and when I was in junior high and high school I wore baggy pants but wore a belt so they would not fall off this fashion has been around since at least the mid 80's I heard it started when gangsters would get out of jail and would be issued pants which where all extra large so that every one could wear them and the justice system would not have to worry about issuing different sizes and save money by buying all the same pants. well it became a fashion statement within the thugs and gangsters and grew from thier. its a style that I dont see going away anytime soon its not as popular as it was during the mid 90's but is still pretty popular. What got me out of that style was an ex girlfriend who decided that I nered to dress alot more preppy at first I hated it but we found many compermises. Onre of my good friends who is Black told me the reason why he thinks alot of young white men dress this way is because we have no pride in where we came from. He said its allright for thier to be asian pride latino pride and black pride but if your white and have some sort of wihite pride it sounds racists so young white men look to other cultures for cultural pride. I feel knowing your culture is very benifical as long as you dont discriminate against other cultures because of your own pride. The problem is that bigots and racists make it hard for people of western european decesnt to establish their cultures in fear that they well look racist.
On the other side this nation is sapose to be the great melting pot where we take from other cultures and we assymilate to one people which is good if every one is working towards that goal but thier are groups who want to impose thier culture on everyone else and not have to sacrifice anything to be apart of this culture. Im not really sure what the right awnser is but it just seems like this nation is becoming alot more devicive and less cohesive.
37g(what do I know I am only 24)joe

 

[jacknjill]

Originally Posted by ruaround
and then there was this other group that had the absolute tightest pants that were high watered...looked like clam diggers...somethin a girl should be wearing... i had to laugh and shake my head...

yep, those would be called "emo's" at my school. Guys that wear girl pants. I think it is so weird/gross

 

[ruaround]

Originally Posted by JacknJill
yep, those would be called "emo's" at my school. Guys that wear girl pants. I think it is so weird/gross
thats too funny... i just yesterday learned what an "emo" is... :hilarious

 

[alyssia]

Originally Posted by emmitt
Style is obe thing but having your underwear hanging out is another. My daughter is only 4 and i shudder to think how low pants will be when she is a teenager. Call me old fashioned but she will not have underwear hanging out, tattoos or piercings. When we were kids we may have looked like idiots with our parachute pants and ridiculous hair but at least we didnt ruin our bodies permanently. Seriously, i think they passed a law requiring a pierced tongue and 3 tattoos before you can graduate high school in Florida.

I forgot all about parachute pants! I did have the big eighties hair though.

 

[moby]

Want to hear something really funny?
I wore "Indiana Jones" clothes for a whole semester, right after that movie first came out. Talk about clueless! But hey my girlfriend thought it was cute.
Embarassed, Moby

 

[phixer]

:hilarious man gas was cheap back then too. We used to do daily burnouts out of the school parking lot.

 

[cowfishrule]

im 28, and my son just turned 1
my plan is to let them be them, not worry about what they are wearing, but rather what they are doing.
growing up, i've actually known kids with purple or blue hair that were top notch kids and gap kids that were absolute d-bags.
so, if my son wants to wear avirex or phat pharm, so be it.
also, for you folks feeling a tad old with all this lingo and ish,
check out
www.urbandictionary.com
type in what ever you are looking for, and there's your definition.
would be good if you suprised your teen with the knowledge of a word they use.
i think it would throw em for a loop.

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by COWFISHRULE
im 28, and my son just turned 1
my plan is to let them be them, not worry about what they are wearing, but rather what they are doing.
growing up, i've actually known kids with purple or blue hair that were top notch kids and gap kids that were absolute d-bags.
so, if my son wants to wear avirex or phat pharm, so be it.
also, for you folks feeling a tad old with all this lingo and ish,
check out
www.urbandictionary.com
type in what ever you are looking for, and there's your definition.
would be good if you suprised your teen with the knowledge of a word they use.
i think it would throw em for a loop.

Good luck with the "PLAN". I'd be willing to bet , you will have change orders to implement for out of scope items of the "plan" - LOL. You can't make judgments by clothes, but you can be humored by them.........

 

[moby]

Hey cowfishrule, I respect your ideaology (sp?)
BUUUUUUTTTT, I used to think the same way and now at the age of 41 with teenage kids I gotta tell you, good luck!
It never works out that way, I thought I would be the cool dad. Bah! There comes a time when the cool dad wisens up and just becomes the dad. It happens, accept it and it will be much easier to transition into the role.
When your children get to be about 14 you'll know what I mean.
Moby

 

[farmboy]

Private school uniforms- 'nough said.

 

[zman1]

Originally Posted by COWFISHRULE
im 28, and my son just turned 1
my plan is to let them be them, not worry about what they are wearing, but rather what they are doing.
growing up, i've actually known kids with purple or blue hair that were top notch kids and gap kids that were absolute d-bags.
so, if my son wants to wear avirex or phat pharm, so be it.
also, for you folks feeling a tad old with all this lingo and ish,
check out
www.urbandictionary.com
type in what ever you are looking for, and there's your definition.
would be good if you suprised your teen with the knowledge of a word they use.
i think it would throw em for a loop.

1. epod 3 up, 1 down
Any illegal narcotic or drug, but most commonly used as another name for methamphetamine made with anhydrous ammonia chemicals.
"There are a lot drug users looking to score some epod in town"
WOW times have changed in my day it was DOPE spelled backwards. We called the Mayor's son EPOD and he would walk around town strung out aimlessly in summer (anytime) with his parka on and zipped up.