Reply #7: I am WORSE than my mother was. Whenever my daughter shows me catalog images...

[PassingFair]

of inappropriate under and over garments she wants me to provide her with, I tell her

"Those are not garments a mother buys for a daughter, those are garments that a stripper
purchases for herself."

She's a senior in high school, and if she want to dress like a stripper,
she can get a job and buy her own stripper clothes.

Last week she got sent home from school for wearing
shiny lycra pants. (She saved up and spent all of her
birthday money, $80! on them.)I warned her when she bounced out
the door that she was pushing the envelope.

Well, sure enough, I got the call at around 11:00. She was in the
office, sounding choked up, could I come and get her.

She was so upset and humiliated when I picked her up that I
didn't have the heart to say "I told you so", so I bought
her a coffee and we played hooky for the rest of the day. She has
extra clothes in her locker now in case she winds up on the
wrong side of the dress code in the future. She is dressing a TAD
bit more circumspectly now.