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Parenting and teenage parties

BradStevens
JamieDimonsBalls said:
I'm going to answer this will bullets because it's spurred a ton of tangents.

  • The Parents - WTF dude, these are frosh and maybe sophs in HS. To actually throw an alcohol induced and drug allowed party is insanity. One, these kids are still pretty young. Two, the liability is insane - we're talking many, many years in prison. Why didn't the cops arrest these fools? Anyone with that kind of judgment isn't likely a good parent in the first place.
  • The Kids - JFC, if this is the future of our generation, we might as well pray for the asteroid. I cannot help but think of Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers
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If they can't have fun and enjoy each other's company and attraction with a little booze and some Halloween costumes, global warming doesn't matter.

  • Kids - Brad, I don't remember if you have any daughters too, but curious if you would have a different level of support for a daughter vs. son. My oldest is a girl and I already know I have different (double) standards and no amount of reasoning is going to change that.
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I'm not sure I follow your second point.

My oldest is a girl. 17. I actually tried to convince her and her friend to crash a different party going on because they have never been to one (they go to the all-girl's Catholic school here). They didn't crash that one, but did coincidentally go to another one in Oak Park last night, their first. Also had alcohol there, apparently. No clue if parents were home or condoned it.

I trust both kids, but want to make sure they understand my expectations. I told daughter when she got home (11ish, she texted me when they left the party and were heading to Taco Bell), I don't want you drinking, but if you do, I want you to call me and I'll pick you up wherever, whenever rather than ride or drive with someone who has been drinking. Now, had I found out my 14-year-old daughter went to a party and wore some revealing costume and booze was involved, I'd be knocking on those parents' door today and we'd have a conversation.

FWIW, I don't think the parents were condoning the drugs, I think some kids showed up high.
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Four non football observations

C
abraxis said:
Regarding #3, IU just needs to rotate the field to run east/west instead of north/south with TV cameras directed north. When Memorial Stadium’s…excuse me, 17th Street Stadium’s layout was designed in the late 50’s, fossil-fueled Climate Change wasn’t anticipated, with its more violent days of radiant sunshine increasing in historic number, based upon the latest expert science of the day, meteorologically speaking.
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Let Me guess. You are the proud holder of a Construction Engineering Degree from Purdue.
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Parenting and teenage parties

JamieDimonsBalls
BradStevens said:
So Brad Jr. went to his first high school party last night. Kid he knew since elementary school threw it. He and a neighbor went together (walked to it).

30 minutes later they're back at my house. They left because it was "boring." About 100 kids, lots of girls, some dressed in quite revealing Halloween outfits (learned this from another neighbor whose daughter went and stayed until the end). Lots of alcohol there--beer, liquor. Parents knew, supplied some, and were there at the time. When I asked, so what was boring about it, Brad Jr. said "they were just standing around listening to music." (I'm guessing part of it was fear).

By 10 pm, several kids were hammered (per my other source) including a few girls who were "crossed"--for the uninitiated, that means both high and drunk. The parents then told the kids to leave (many kids also brought backpacks of booze into the party, by the way) and when they didn't go quickly, called the cops on their own party and it was broken up by the police.

So, for parents out there, how do you feel about this? I'm OK with my son experiencing it (and kinda wished he had stayed longer to see actual drunk people act stupidly and just get used to an environment like that) but am really turned off by parents hosting a party with booze for 14 and 15 year olds. I guess I'm a full-fledged parent now, because all I could think of was, what happens if one of those kids gets hit by a car while walking home hammered (this is an urban suburb, so everything is pretty close)? Or the girls get harassed, or worse, walking around at night, drunk, in a sexy outfit?
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I'm going to answer this will bullets because it's spurred a ton of tangents.

  • The Parents - WTF dude, these are frosh and maybe sophs in HS. To actually throw an alcohol induced and drug allowed party is insanity. One, these kids are still pretty young. Two, the liability is insane - we're talking many, many years in prison. Why didn't the cops arrest these fools? Anyone with that kind of judgment isn't likely a good parent in the first place.
  • The Kids - JFC, if this is the future of our generation, we might as well pray for the asteroid. I cannot help but think of Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers
ed30d164-45fe-427d-b5d3-f98b31e9d401_text.gif


If they can't have fun and enjoy each other's company and attraction with a little booze and some Halloween costumes, global warming doesn't matter.

  • Kids - Brad, I don't remember if you have any daughters too, but curious if you would have a different level of support for a daughter vs. son. My oldest is a girl and I already know I have different (double) standards and no amount of reasoning is going to change that.
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Purdue Loses Exhibition

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BoilerN said:
It doesn’t sound bad. It sounds like Painter used the exhibition exactly what it should be used for. Experimentation and trying things you might not try in the season.
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No, it sounds like he tried real hard to win the game and relied on 3 players. PU returns 2 projected starters with double figure scoring and 3 that averaged single digit scoring. Two of those three will need to step it up consistently.

As a comparison, all 5 projected IU starters averaged double figures where they played last year with a former starter coming off the bench as a double figure scorer. We learned from our football team that past production and experience matter. I believe it will matter in basketball.
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