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Thread: Modern dress code (rant)
Originally Posted by Adrian II:
Forget the book, you don't need one. Do as the oldies did, only without the physical aspect.
Statistically, 1 out of every 2 of your children will swear excessively once they become teenagers. Same with anything that is enforced in this manner.Forget the book, you don't need one. Do as the oldies did, only without the physical aspect.
- Hit them where it hurts most. A progressive penal regime of cuts in pocket money, computer time, party-going and holiday treats (more or less in that order) will work wonders.
- Reward them for good behaviour.
- Be an example. Introduce a piggy bank and have every family member that swears, belches, creates an unnecessary row or eats food with their hands drop a 20 cent coin into it, and this includes you. At year's end (or earlier if the piggy threatens to explode...) the money is taken out and spent on a family outing.
- Don't be too rigid. For instance I discourage all swearing and cursing, but if done with style, a very occasional, well-placed, judicious curse or swear-word goes unpunished in my house.*
As for style of dress, people place too much importance on it. I think expensive clothes are dumb.
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit:
I can relate. I went to the fanciest restaurant in a 20k person town recently ($20 dollar meals and whatnot) dressed in jeans, a buttoned shirt, and a scuffed up leather jacket. Amazingly, I was in perhaps the better dressed half of my age group and gender. Why go to such a place in a sweatshirt and basketball shorts?
It doesn't seem right.
CR
That's the real question I can relate. I went to the fanciest restaurant in a 20k person town recently ($20 dollar meals and whatnot) dressed in jeans, a buttoned shirt, and a scuffed up leather jacket. Amazingly, I was in perhaps the better dressed half of my age group and gender. Why go to such a place in a sweatshirt and basketball shorts?
It doesn't seem right.
CR
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