i heard on a dc radio station this morning that the livestrong bracelets, and all the like (pink for breast cancer, etc), are being used by girls in middle and high schools as a color code to indicate “how far i will go.”
not sure what the colors correspond to, but … this makes me never want to have children, and if i do only boys, because as they say with a boy, you only have to worry about one, ummm appendage … with girls you’ve got to worry about all of them!
Klep uses his all the time… and he’s got the mind of a teenager… that means yellow stands for… I’ll go all the way RIGHT NOW! LOL…
Here people wear them because they are fashionable. Most don’t really know anything about them except that they are a donation to cancer.
"I’ll go all the wat RIGHT NOW! LOL… "
what?
see … i don’t think boys indicating that they’ll go all the way right now is much of a revelation … when i was in highschool breathing meant i’d go all the way, introductions could wait!
I thought it meant you wanted to be part of a VH-1 special in about 10 years “Remember the 00’s”.
That, along with women staightening their hair, pilates, Jessica Simpson, low carb diets, low rise jeans/thongs, reality shows and cell phones.
Well don’t leave me hanging…
What do all of the colors mean. My 11 year-old daughter has a livestrong, and my 8 year-old daughter wanted a red cancer bracelet (Houston Texans charity for cancer).
Thanks.
Tim
P.S. My 5 year-old daughter and baby daughter don’t wear braclets (yet)
P.S.S. That’s right 4 daughters and 1 son. Somewhere there a joke: "4 weddings and a "
i have middle school aged kids and this has been going on long before livestrong - supposedly those colorde gummy bracelets (Madona made popular inthe 80s) have been used for the same type coded messages.
I will flat out talk about alomst anything with my kids (in an age appropriate way) and have asked about this bracelet thing. They claim (in their school at least) it is not as big a deal as the media has made it out to be. More a poser thing, but I’m not that foolish - I know kids are having sex.
but we do live in lilly white, upper middle class suberbia - so my community is not necessarily representative of the country at large
They still beating up the kids who wear the “Anti Bully” ones?
apparently you have to be in school to be privy to such details as what color means what … i’d like to repeat some of the jokes about some of the colors that i’ve heard … in fact i typed one in and thought better of it … all i can say is, i do not envy those with daughters.
goes to show the quality of radio in dc.
goes to show the quality of radio in dc
Quoted for great truth.
This is somewhat old news, (Oprah covered it in 2003). The code is roughly:
Blue is Oral
Red is no condom
Black is with a condom
Red & Black is a 69 position
Pink is…licking butt
Green is…upper body only
or another cipher has it as:
Yellow: hugging
Purple: kissing
Red: lap dance
Blue: oral sex
Black: intercourse
There are other lists out there that break down by “Dark Blue”, “Medium Blue” and “Light Blue”, etc.
Most teens and tweens know about the game, (it’s called “SNAP”), most are NOT playing the game, but you don’t know who is and who isn’t.
NBC will have a special on teen sex:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/26/tv.katie.couric.special.ap/index.html
I volunteer with a grade 8 class in a local elementary school. The grade eight girls neither looked nor acted like they do now when I was in grade 8.
It’s gotta be scary to be a parent these days.
Paul
Kids are just as sexual as they’ve always been it’s just you hear about it more nowadays.
As for “snap” I remember reading somewhere about it being a myth. Either way i’m sure it’s overhyped as are most things our media tends to show us. How about taking down airplanes by blinding pilots with laserpens?
As a mother of two daughters I have to say that this doesn’t bother me one bit. I don’t think it’s any harder to raise daughters now than it was in the 60’s. I actually think it’s easier because most families are more open with their kids about these types of issues than they were 40 years ago. How many discussions did you have about sex with your parents? I had none. Meanwhile, we’ve discussed sex, pregnancy, drugs, smoking, alcohol, etc, etc numerous times with my girls and my youngest is only 5. I really think that kids need to hear about this stuff first from their parents. If you discuss it openly, then it’s no big deal when their friends are discussing it. Plus, they’re armed with the facts. I don’t mean to make it sound like I’ve got it all figured out, because that’s far from the truth. But, we are doing the best we can and trying to be as open and honest as possible with our kids. I can only hope that’s enough.
D.
I also read in the Enquirer that in some hospitals yellow bands (and purple in some other hospitals) mean do not recesitate (sp?). So if you crash on your bike with a livestrong band I hope the doc looks twice at it.
Advice for the parents: your kids (especially older, normal kids) do not want you talking with them about sex. Kids nowdays know a lot about sex before you even think it’s time to have ‘the talk’ with them. We get enough sex-education in schools, and with safe-sex being preached on every corner the last thing kids want is their parents giving them ‘the talk’.
edit: the time your kid has sex-education in school is the probably the best time to talk to them about it if you really feel like you need to. they’ll be expecting it so it’s not going to embarass them as much.
Sex ed in school doesn’t start until grade 3 here. That’s way too late in my opinion. We started when our girls were around 3. As soon as they started to ask where babies come from. I have never had a sit down conversation with them about it (i.e. “the talk”), but we’ve discussed it as a situation arose. In all cases, they were interested and asked many questions. I think your opinion is probably true for pre-teens and teens. Besides, I don’t care if they want to talk to me about it or not. There is certain information that they need to know to protect themselves and they’re going to hear it from me way before they hear it from their friends.
D.
P.S.S. That’s right 4 daughters and 1 son. Somewhere there a joke: "4 weddings and a "
Come on…don’t make it so easy for us. “4 weddings and a circumcision” is just tooooo easy!
Talking to your small kids about where babies come from is great. I went thru that phase when I was 3 and my mom was pregnant with my sister. But talking to your kids about oral sex and stuff is just ugh imo. Leave that to the teachers so they can chucke along with all the other kids in the class.
I think what’s more important is keeping your kid in a good company of friends. Do all the talking in the world if that’s what you want, but if your kid hangs with the wrong crowd it’s not gonna mean jack.