My wife recently chaperoned a dance for junior high schoolers at a Catholic school. She working the door when another of the chaperones, a father of one of the students in attendance, hurried over and asked her what he was supposed to do about an eighth grade girl making out with an 8th grade guy in the middle of the dance floor.
“That’s not ok, is it?” he asked her. “Should we be doing something about this?”
The man truly didn’t know what his responsibilities were. My wife was stunned by the question. She was about to answer when another man came up to her and asked her the same question about the kissing couple. “It’s not O.K.,” she said. “Tell them to stop!”
From what I understand, after a lot of eyerolls from the couple, they stopped mauling each other with their mouths. But here’s the thing – what they were doing was completely expected. Kids do dumb things. What the kids did was something kids have been trying to do since kids were invented. Nothing new there.
What has changed in recent years are parents.
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April 1, 2013 at 5:17 am
Parents and teachers and Catholic schools and pop culture and what else ?? It's really awful.
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April 1, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Parenthood has been eviscerated by the state's constant attacks on motherhood, fatherhood, marriage and the family. The objective reality of fatherhood and motherhood with attendant powers, duties, rights, etc. has been supplanted by subjective, relativistic ideas as dictated by the UN, Council of Europe, and their minions, the states who can subdue and overthrow the people only by, inter alia, destroying natural moral law and its guardians – the Family founded on natural marriage, the Church, the nation.
April 1, 2013 at 1:55 pm
"But the consequence of a generation of boys having been taught not to be boys is that men don’t know how to be men."
I believe you've answered your own question. I also think the constant cultural drumbeat that woman=superhero and man=lazy buffoon does not help matters.
April 1, 2013 at 3:58 pm
O happy memories of chaperoning school trips! If you bring a chair up from the dining room and tilt it back against the hotel room door (obviously we are talking about the hallway side of the door) you can safely close your eyes and nap a bit while the four lads on the inside sigh in adolescent frustration.
April 1, 2013 at 7:41 pm
Yeah. No kidding. What a mess, huh?
I'm guessing most Catholic Dad were like me… not knowing what the heck is what. Is this okay? Is this not okay?
Three suggestions:
Read Human Vitae.
Get a copy of "Christ in the home" Fr Raoul Plus
Start your devotion to St Joseph.
Don't wait and don't let anyone stand in your way from owning the responsibilities to your children. You, Dad, are the head of the domestic church. Stout Hearts, Dad. Go to Joseph, Dad.
April 3, 2013 at 3:03 am
Being a dad is difficult, because one has to operate from what one thinks is right. I have 11 children (now all adults) and 5 of them are daughters. I became a father by being a father. My guiding belief was this: Moms love you no matter what, but dads expect you to to toe the line.