Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

Last year I had a post commenting on Fashion’s effect on men and women that had a rather amusing comment in it:

My 8 yo walked by and saw what was on my computer screen (the plunging neckline shot?thanks a lot! ;O) ) and she commented, ?That?s a terribly immodest picture!? I gulped and half-laughed, ?Yes, immodesty is what this article?s about.? ?Good thing!? she said as she walked off!

Mary told me that her child had the same reaction that Jennifer Bacak’s had with Barbie:

Well this particular Barbie had on a long sleeve top that was cute, but a super short skirt. It was a rare occasion that Emma was playing with it, and I asked her “do you see anything wrong with Barbie’s clothes?” She looked for a minute, and then I pointed out that Barbie didn’t have much of a skirt on. So Emma went in search of something to make Barbie more modest. She tried to change her into some pants off of another Barbie, but the pants wouldn’t fasten at the top, so Barbie’s bottom was completely showing. We were on a quest to make Barbie modest now, so that wouldn’t work. So Emma put the skirt over the pants, and put together a stylish outfit that was modest. Way to go Emma!

You see, I don’t think that it’s that either of these ladies sat down and had one talk with their girls about what is modest– but they model modesty and they talk about things as they come up.

That’s what I believe is the whole point of the Deuteronomy 6 passage about talking about the things of God with your children at all times– and not just on Sunday.  Children reflect us, and because of this, we need to be modeling good behavior AND helping them to think through what honors God.

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