# PARENTS: If you can't raise your kids properly- then KEEP YOUR PANTS ON!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 24, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902 "2001-08-24T14:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/41 "2001-08-27T12:19:01Z")
Vinnie, thanks for that beautiful, touching story about family love. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/42 "2001-08-27T15:14:24Z")
I’ve mentioned it before and I’ll probably mention it again. The ear-twist move works wonders! ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/43 "2001-08-27T20:27:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \* > \*\*If you are expecting to dine in absolute peace and quiet, then I would suggest that you either stay home or pick a restaurant that doesn’t serve straws with the drinks. \*\* Hell, that would mean I could NEVER dine out! ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/44 "2001-08-27T20:45:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrankyAsAnOldMan \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by aurelian \* > > \*\* > > One woman became upset when I told her we could not hold her baggie full of breast milk in the cooler for health code reasons. (and no, a small fridge in her room was not good enough-- ) > > \*\* > > I could see this being a problem. If the little room fridge couldn’t keep the breast milk safely frozen… those freezers suck. You gotta have a good place to store it. > > But that’s neither here nor there. I guess I’m just saying if you ever work in the travel/hospitality industry, have some sympathy for the nursing mom on the road. Dragging that goddamn breast pump around and looking for a comfortable, safe, clean place to pump on schedule and trying to keep one’s milk safe is a huge pain in the ass. You can’t bend rules if they say “No storage of guest items in food coolers,” but do be kind about it. \*\* I once worked at a fried chicken restaurant at Sea World in Orlando (my only experience as a fast-food slave/drone/worker). Our problem was that many women breast-fed their babies right at the tables… ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/45 "2001-08-27T21:01:53Z")
Holy shit, is this going to get ugly. May I be the first to say “so what?” Where should she breastfeed? In the bathroom? The car? Zette ---
**Author:** ![Lucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/46 "2001-08-27T21:10:10Z")
I’d like to second what **Zette** said. Feeding the baby at the table? Really! ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/47 "2001-08-27T21:44:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*Thank you, **D Marie**. That’s the stuff I was talking about (and not explaining very well, I’m afraid). \*\* Not at all; you explained it well. I just wanted to throw in my two cents 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/48 "2001-08-27T21:46:27Z")
Some of them didn’t cover up. They just opened their blouses, exposed their breasts for all to see and started nursing. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/49 "2001-08-27T21:56:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > **exposed their breasts for all to see** And this is a problem because…? ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/50 "2001-08-27T23:02:50Z")
When did public nudity become acceptable? ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/51 "2001-08-28T00:17:05Z")
Cripes, it’s not like they tore their blouses off and did table dances, is it? It’s just biology. The kid’s gotta eat, he’s gotta eat. I see no reason for nursing mothers to cater to the prudish. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/52 "2001-08-28T00:27:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > \*\*Cripes, it’s not like they tore their blouses off and did table dances, is it? It’s just biology. The kid’s gotta eat, he’s gotta eat. I see no reason for nursing mothers to cater to the prudish. \*\* I was really getting my dander up and getting all prepared to type something cantankerous about “public nudity” versus the inevitability of a nursing breast being visible but I cannot top this succinct, accurate representation of my thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/53 "2001-08-28T01:26:32Z")
I realized I didn’t make myself clear. (I’ve been posting in a hurry today.) I had no problem with what the mothers were doing. But some of the other guests did. Trying to please everyone, we had to ask the mothers who were breast-feeding to cover up with a blanket or a sweater or something. It wasn’t a great hardship for them, frankly, and the babies seemed to prefer being in the darkness under the blankets. It wasn’t as easy to talk to them as you may think, since the majority of the women who were doing this were from other countries and many didn’t speak English. Quite often, I couldn’t communicate with them at all, and just gave up. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/54 "2001-08-28T01:34:01Z")
Only in America is it fashionable to show cleavage…except if you happen to be nursing a baby. I mean, really, people can look at a calf or a bunch of kittens nursing and think it’s cute. But a human–drinking HUMAN milk? God forbid! GET OVER IT, PEOPLE! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/55 "2001-08-28T02:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\*and the babies seemed to prefer being in the darkness under the blankets. > \*\* I admit it, it puts you in a hard position when ignorant squeamish dumbasses expect proprietors to police breastfeeding and remove it from their offended sight. I don’t envy you that. However, I am terribly curious about that statement of yours I quoted. I get this fantastic mental picture of you ducking your own head under the blanket, cooing at the little tykes and asking them in baby talk if that’s not much better, cootchie cootchie coo. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/56 "2001-08-28T02:39:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\*When did public nudity become acceptable? \*\* YOu seem to be missing something-the primary purpose of breasts is to FEED. They’re basically giant feedbags sitting on our chests. God, that would make a good sig. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/57 "2001-08-28T03:01:00Z")
I’d also like to point out that in most states (at least every state I’ve ever lived in), breastfeeding in public is legal and is exempt from public nudity laws. If it bothers you, try this fun mental exercise. Instead of picturing a BOOB! A tit! Like you can sometimes see on those chicks on Skinemax! Oh My God!.. picture a big ol’ feedbag hanging off her chest. Because, functionally, that’s what it is. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/58 "2001-08-28T08:12:46Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\* the babies seemed to prefer being in the darkness under the blankets._\* Which explains why adults routinely drape a blanket over the head of a baby before giving it a bottle :rolleyes: Yeah, totnak loved having a blanket over his head. He could pull it off and laugh. Then I’d replace it, and he’d pull it off and laugh again. All the while not latching on, of course, which meant the ol’ nipple was hangin’ there in full view, instead of being covered as it necessarily is when the kid is hooked up. But I’m sure **that** made a nice peep show for everyone watching, before I said the hell with it, anyone who doesn’t want to see can mind his own fuckin’ business. Thank gawd I didn’t have to go through that nonsense on this side of the Atlantic. ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902/59 "2001-08-28T12:23:15Z")
Just had this pointed out . . “Look, of course I’m a little over the top here, and do advocate excessive violence at children.” Of course, what I meant was I do NOT advocate excessive violence at children. :o [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-if-you-cant-raise-your-kids-properly-then-keep-your-pants-on/77902.md?page=2)