Girl, Your Shorts are Too Short
When you see someone dressed immodestly, what do you do?
Three weeks ago my kids started their homeschool co-op soccer. I was surprised by the different looks that people had. Most were fine, but a few stood out.
One guy had a full beard going as a highschooler1. A few had high priced soccer equipment.
And then there was the one girl. You can imagine her. All the boys were in her orbit, and she knew it. She was in a modest top, but her shorts could not get any shorter.
And three weeks later it’s still the same. Though her socks may be long, her shorts are very immodest. So immodest that my wife noticed it too.
What would you do? It’s not like we’re leaders—we’re parents with Kindergartners. They certainly aren’t going to stumble over this girl’s showing of skin.
Should you ignore it? Tell the coach? Find the young lady’s mother/father?
- Which looked much more impressive than my goatee. [↩]
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Whoa, this is a tough one considering your kids aren’t the ones directly affected by this.
Couple of questions:
1. Is this a Christian homeschooling co-op or just homeschooling in general?
2. Are you close with the coach/parents to where you could address it with them directly?
3. Do you have daughters out there who will see this and could be affected by it?
If I were in your situation my first response would be to talk to the coach. If the kids were wearing shirts with swearwords or lewd graphics on them – you would talk to the coaches immediately about that. If this is going to be a community organization there needs to be some sort of code set to where everyone feels comfortable. Not only is this young woman distracting the boys, but she could be creating wrong impressions for tweens and young girls who see that dressing in short-shorts gets you lots of attention from boys. The coach(es) might appreciate some feedback because then the boys might actually concentrate on playing the game!
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I’d have your wife speak with another mother or female coach who is in this girl’s direct sphere of influence. When some of the teen girls at church come dressed too immodestly, my husband doesn’t go approach them or even approach the youth pastor about it. Instead, he brings it to my attention, I bring it to a female youth worker’s attention, and she deals directly with the girl.
LOL to the beard! I hate it when young guys do that. Makes you think they’re just trying to look older, but they just end up reminding me of a little kid that got into his dad’s closet.
Like someone said, if kids were wearing T-shirts with bad words/pictures on them, no one would think it strange for you to speak up. The same should go for modesty.
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