Homecoming Dance
Oct 7th 2007, 10:36 pm
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Re: Homecoming Dance
I'm glad when I was growing up we just 'made do' with the local youth/football club disco.
Oct 7th 2007, 10:39 pm
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and at that age you could not have payed me to wear one of them dresses.
Oct 7th 2007, 11:19 pm
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Re: Homecoming Dance
It is old fashioned in a way but it's nice too, to see them dressed so smartly.
I also think it teaches them how to behave in certain social situations.
Perhaps it's just where I live but the teenagers here are so well mannered and confident and a real pleasure to be with.
My daughters friends back home were lovely and I've known all of them since they were babies and I hate to say anything horrible about them but.....they could do with a few lessons in manners.
I still want that frock.
I also think it teaches them how to behave in certain social situations.
Perhaps it's just where I live but the teenagers here are so well mannered and confident and a real pleasure to be with.
My daughters friends back home were lovely and I've known all of them since they were babies and I hate to say anything horrible about them but.....they could do with a few lessons in manners.
I still want that frock.
Oct 7th 2007, 11:35 pm
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Re: Homecoming Dance
It is old fashioned in a way but it's nice too, to see them dressed so smartly.
I also think it teaches them how to behave in certain social situations.
Perhaps it's just where I live but the teenagers here are so well mannered and confident and a real pleasure to be with.
My daughters friends back home were lovely and I've known all of them since they were babies and I hate to say anything horrible about them but.....they could do with a few lessons in manners.
I still want that frock.
I also think it teaches them how to behave in certain social situations.
Perhaps it's just where I live but the teenagers here are so well mannered and confident and a real pleasure to be with.
My daughters friends back home were lovely and I've known all of them since they were babies and I hate to say anything horrible about them but.....they could do with a few lessons in manners.
I still want that frock.
Cinderella......you shall go to the ball
Oct 7th 2007, 11:36 pm
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Re: Homecoming Dance
I hear that kids are doing this in the UK now. My sister was telling me. They hire limos and do the whole dress up thing. The UK is becoming TOO americanized imo.
Oct 8th 2007, 12:49 am
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Yes my niece just went through it all back home, of course I made a fuss of the photo's but also said to her Mum "bit of a waste of money ain't it" but unlike me they do have money to burn.
Oct 8th 2007, 3:44 am
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Re: Homecoming Dance
Maybe I'm old fashioned too or just cheap? My oldest son is 4 this week, he has recently gone to some of his classmates parties which have been pretty nice. At one recent 4 year olds party they had a clown and at another a chef cooking food to order for the adults.
We called one clown and he wanted $400 to 'make it worth his while' having to drive to Santa Monica from Whittier ( about 20 miles). In LA even kids parties seem to be a 'keeping up with the Jones' event'. After some initial enquiries James is having a simple party with cake, games and a pinata in the local park. Whatever happened to pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey. The $400 clown can piss right off.
In addition to his low-key party James is getting a new bike too.
We called one clown and he wanted $400 to 'make it worth his while' having to drive to Santa Monica from Whittier ( about 20 miles). In LA even kids parties seem to be a 'keeping up with the Jones' event'. After some initial enquiries James is having a simple party with cake, games and a pinata in the local park. Whatever happened to pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey. The $400 clown can piss right off.
In addition to his low-key party James is getting a new bike too.
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Oct 8th 2007, 3:49 am
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Re: Homecoming Dance
It dependson the regional traditions. In Ohio, they are usually semi-formal/dressy casual. Sometimes the boy gets the girl a corsage, sometimes not. At the school I teach, a student group sells carnations and roses the week before homecoming with them being delivered the Friday before. So many times, the boys (and girls) will send a flower that way. It is much more relaxed than the prom in the spring.