Conversion to Islam? While it’s been possible for a long time, it’s been perhaps more controversial in the past decade or so.
In Europe they have a lot more freedom to leave the country now than they used to.
Tongue Splitting. That would probably shock me. Also: joining any strict religious group.
There is another body part that men split. Hint: Women can’t do it.
Ouch. I’m so sorry for your nephew. (Good for you being a supportive uncle!)
Let’s see, show signs of being a sociopath? Abusing animals, pyromania, major bedwetting (beyond the age for that sort of thing). Playing with their feces past toddler-hood?
I’m female, but this still makes me cross my legs and shiver. :eek:
Does watching and/or reading gay porn (or straight, in the case of gay kids) count? The last con I attended, a goodly amount of the females who expressed a fondness for yaoi were under 18, from what I could tell. I was browsing a booth in the dealers’ room when I overheard a teenage girl having a conversation with her friend about whether they could convince her older brother to buy some yaoi doujinshi (fan-drawn comics about already-existing characters) for them. Not wanting to get arrested for corrupting the morals of minors, I did not offer to help. Besides, it looked like these girls were already doing a passable job of corrupting their own morals.
BTW, I like yaoi/slash, and might be rather shocked if I found my daughter reading or watching yaoi in a few years, but can’t say I’d be entirely surprised. This is the girl who likes to conduct same-sex weddings with her cousin’s WWE action figures.
How old is he? How do you know he’s gonna end up as gay? Good on you for planning to open your home to him.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH…that’s cute! Sort of like how little girls liked playing Lesbian Make Out with their Barbies in years past.
How old are we talking about?
For teenage girls over the legal age of consent, the most shocking theng they could do would be to seduce a much older fat guy.
Like me. Young ladies, I am ready to help you ruin yourselves in the eyes of your parents.
Somehow I doubt that seriously.
Boys or girls? Standing up or squatting? From inside the house (better still if its the second floor) or the lawn itself?
He’s 7. Imagine Jack from Will and Grace as a first-grader, and you have my nephew. And thank you.
You could at LEAST have picked a much better Yankee pitcher.
I mean, Urban Shocker wasn’t the greatest Yankee pitcher ever, NOR did he have the funniest name ever.
Either go for quality (Ron Guidry) or go for funny (Dooley Womack).
I’m not a parent, but am old enough to have a late-teen-age kid.
Not much would shock me - considering how I’d raise a kid, I’d be shocked by violence, gang membership, that type of thing. But lots of things would disappoint me - internet sex-pic-posting underage, blowing guys in the school cafeteria (like my wife, a teacher, found happening in her school), that type of thing…
Joe
I can’t imagine most parents would be happy to discover that their children were incestuous lovers.
Or how about for step kids who are pissed about their parents marrying and want to piss them off? Finding out that your step kids have stopped fighting and are now doing it on the couch might rock your world.
Incest is definitely a boat rocker. It is an old one, though. I am looking for new stuff that baby boomers couldn’t wrap their minds around. Again, I think furries are probably the best example brought up so far. Nothing even remotely similar has been available before.
As a parent of a teenager, I fear the damage that a couple of kids can do to their lives with a camera and an internet connection.
The combination of crazy sex crime laws (cite), irresponsible media and the speed that that incriminating evidence can travel around the world is new and terrifying.
When I was a teenager, kids had sex and even took pictures of each other naked - but those pictures were unlikely to end up on YouTube or the News at 11.
In summary, there is probably very little that is new and shocking that kids can do that their parents couldn’t do but the consequences are 100x worse.
Along the same lines, I am shocked that kids are “facebook friends” with their teachers in high school. and they say all the same rude things about their teachers that we said about ours…on facebook!
Well then the newest slant on it that I’ve heard of is the “incest letter”: supposedly, an Internet based way of dropping a hint to a sibling or parent that you want sex with them. Unless it’s an urban legend/porn fantasy.
I kind of tend to think it’s the latter. I mean, how is that any different from dropping a hint in real life? Having the Internet isn’t going to make incest any more socially acceptable in real life.
Has someone mention “Join the army,” yet?