So I’m watching “The View” last week and one of the conversations surrounded a mother arranging her 13-year-old son’s birthday party at “Hooters.” Now I just about gasped.
The segment also included a picture of the new teen posing with a well-endowed worker there. Cute? Um, not in my humble opinion.
Appropriate? Call me a fuddy-duddy, but I find it highly inappropriate.
So there weren’t better options out there? I mean, what is the point?
The mom’s argument was supposedly that teens are exposed to this kind of stuff and much more anyway. Okay, so that means we take it a step further?
Just because something exists in our world doesn’t mean we have to embrace it. And it certainly doesn’t mean we have to rub it in our children’s faces.
One of the things I have tried really hard to instill in my sons is to respect women. By putting them on display for my sons, I don’t think they would see the value in a woman.
There is more to a woman than her “package,” if you know what I mean. So what messages does it send to a 13-year-old boy when his birthday party consists of cleavage?
And I have to admit, I was absolutely shocked that a mother would be the one to host such a party. Supposedly other moms were really upset about her choice of venue. Well, who forced them to take their sons?
I feel good that I can look back on some of the themed parties I put together for my sons and treasure those memories. Dinosaurs, boot camp and cowboys were just some of them. Oh, and I can’t forget the over-sized mouse at Chuck E Cheese.
Although I’m sure this 13-year-old boy’s best birthday party ever will be the one he had at “Hooters,” I can’t help but wonder what “special” memories this could have possibly created between a mother and her son.
What do you think? Was this an inappropriate birthday party for a teen boy?
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