Parenting Advice From Dr. Dobson

Digby points to some parenting advice from Dr. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family. Listen up dads! Here's how to prevent your son from turning out gay:

Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.

-- Can Homosexuality Be Treated and Prevented? Emphasis added.

OK, is everyone skeeved out now? Don't worry, Ben and Zach, I'm not taking his advice. You can paint your toenails as much as you want.

Speaking of which, we were at a community fair in Bucks County where my Mom lives. The boys were getting their faces painted -- Ben got a snake and a rainbow, Zach got a sun and a baseball. ("Baseball!" is one of his ~50 words.) While in line, I overheard a mom with her son (7?) and daughter (5?) behind me, looking at the sample pictures:

Mom: Don't you want a butterfly?
Daughter: I want a kitty.
Mom: The butterfly is pretty.
Daughter: I want a horse.
Mom: Isn't the butterfly pretty?
Son: I want a horse too.
Mom: That's gay, Cody.
(Reaching the front of the line.)
Mom: She'll have a butterfly.

I remember when we were kids we used to say stuff was "gay" all the time, without having the slightest clue what it meant. Thank goodness I was reprogrammed at Yale.



M E-L posted this on August 11, 2005 2:27 PM

This post is filed under: Culture, National News
Comments
Jimpy wrote:

What did Cody get?

Comment #1 :: link :: August 11, 2005 2:46 PM
patrick wrote:

Cody is such a gay name anyway.
But speaking of Yale, gay and bucks, for only 10 bucks you can see a Yale educated gay rapper at the Knitting Factory August 17th.
http://www.nypress.com/18/32/news&columns/Shinefield.cfm

He's also Jewish. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Comment #2 :: link :: August 11, 2005 3:25 PM
CMOM wrote:

He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball.

Well, that's settles it: Any son of mine is destined to be gay as Christmas.

Comment #3 :: link :: August 11, 2005 4:53 PM :: homepage
M E-L wrote:

What did Cody get?

Strangely, he got Dorothy, carrying Toto and riding bareback on a unicorn.

Comment #4 :: link :: August 12, 2005 11:14 AM
emily wrote:

A friend of mine once told me a similar story about overhearing someone school their son in why salads were for sissies and therefore he had to eat meat for lunch. Y'know, I don't think one little salad is enough to do the job.

Comment #5 :: link :: August 12, 2005 12:37 PM :: homepage
M E-L wrote:

Do you remember "salad day" in the Old Cafeteria? And the cheese-filled croutons that everyone loved? And figuring out that the cheese-filled croutons were really just old grilled cheese sandwiches? Ah, yes. Radnor.

I think those croutons made me gay.

Comment #6 :: link :: August 12, 2005 1:23 PM
Jimpy wrote:

Based on this article (and in an effort to prevent my son from becoming gay), I regularly take him to bathhouses. That way he has a chance to notice that *many* people have penises. Only bigger.

Bigger than *his* I mean. His old man isn't gonna be topped by some ol' bathhouse guy! And trust me, a lot of people offer that!

Anyway, good to know my boy is being well trained!

Comment #7 :: link :: August 12, 2005 2:06 PM
patrick wrote:

Haven't had time to read the whole article (hey I gotta do some work here) but so the most striking quote is from the letter the pre-homo sent "I also had an older cousin who would take us (little cousins) into his room and show us his genitals. I'm afraid I have a little sodomy in me." Does the good doctor talk about how a father should keep his son from being molested?
Also, if every boy who jumped up and down in front of a mirror to see his dingus dangle went on to become gay, we would have to change the name of our country to The United States of La Cage aux Folles. As evidence look at this thing my brother (who us a very manly fireman) once sent me:

HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A WOMAN
Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks.

Walk into bathroom wearing long dressing gown. If you see your husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.

Look at your womanly physique in the mirror. Make mental note...Must do more sit-ups.

Get in the shower. Use face cloth, arm cloth, leg cloth, long loofah, wide loofah, and pumice stone.

Wash your hair with Cucumber Sage shampoo with 43 added vitamins.

Wash your hair again to make sure it's clean. Condition your hair with Grapefruit Mint conditioner, enhanced with natural avocado oil. Leave on hair for fifteen minutes. Wash your face with crushed apricot facial scrub for ten minutes, until red.

Wash entire rest of body with Ginger Nut and Jaffa Cake body wash.

Rinse conditioner off hair. You must make sure that it has all come off. Shave armpits and legs. Consider shaving bikini area, but decide to get it waxed instead.

Scream loudly when your husband flushes the toilet and you lose the water pressure.

Turn off shower.

Squeegee off all wet surfaces in shower. Spray mold spots with Tilex. Get out of shower. Dry with towel the size of a small country. Wrap hair in super absorbent second towel. Check entire body for the remotest sign of a zit.

Tweeze hairs.

Return to bedroom wearing long dressing gown and towel on head. If you see your husband along the way, cover any exposed areas, then sashay to bedroom to spend an hour and a half getting dressed.


HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A MAN
Take off clothes while sitting on the edge of the bed.

Leave them in a pile.

Walk naked to the bathroom. If you see your wife along the way, shake wiener at her, making the "woo-woo" sound.

Look at your manly physique in the mirror and suck in your gut to see if you have pecs. (No)

Admire the size of your wiener in the mirror and scratch your ass.

Get in shower.

Don't bother to look for a washcloth...You don't use one.

Wash your face.

Wash your armpits.

Blow your nose in your hands, then let the water just rinse it off.

Crack up at how loud your farts sound in the shower.

Majority of time is spent washing your privates and surrounding area.

Wash your butt, leaving those coarse butt hairs on the soap bar.

Shampoo your hair. Do not use conditioner. Make a shampoo Mohawk.

Peek out of shower curtain to look at yourself in the mirror again.

Pee (in the shower).

Rinse off and get out of the shower. Fail to notice water on the floor because you left the curtain hanging out of the tub the whole time. Partially dry off.

Look at yourself in the mirror. Flex muscles. Admire the wiener size again.

Leave shower curtain open and wet bath mat on the floor. Leave bathroom fan and light on.

Return to the bedroom with towel around your waist. If you pass your wife, pull off the towel, shake wiener at her, and make the "woo-woo" sound again.

Throw wet towel on the bed. Take 2 minutes to get dressed.

--AS YOU CAN SEE, SHAKING YOUR WIENER (OFTEN WITH SOUND EFFECTS) IS VERY MANLY INDEED.

Comment #8 :: link :: August 12, 2005 4:27 PM
Emily wrote:

I don't really remember the salads, but I do remember that loss of innocence moment when we figured out what those croutons really were. Still tasty, sadly enough.

Comment #9 :: link :: August 13, 2005 5:45 PM :: homepage
Oz wrote:

Just so you know, James Dobson beats puppies too.

The man should be in prison. Then he could show his weiner to anyone he liked.

Comment #10 :: link :: January 7, 2006 6:58 AM :: homepage
Pat Martin wrote:

I keep a little 3 year old girl. She hits or fights all the time. At lesson time she will not set down at all. If I ask her a question she gives me a blank stare, but later on in the day she will repeat some that was said two hours before. Time out does not help her behavior. Her mom spanks her this is not helping. She has a two year old sister that she tries to hurt all day long(set on top of her, cough her, pull her hair. PLEASE HELP ME TO HELP HER!!!!!!

Comment #11 :: link :: February 10, 2006 8:13 AM :: homepage
Gregor wrote:

So if Cody wants a horse, he's gay (and this was reported before Brokeback Mountain came out). If his sister wants a kitty, she's going to get a butterfly...really, whatever mom wants you to have, that's what you're getting. You kids just didn't understand the rules--your mom is a fascist and "choice" is a fraud. You get what they sell you. Period. Next time, choose correctly, otherwise Reverend Dobson will show you HIS penis, and he's hung like a hamster, so never ever get in the shower with him. He gets, you know, odd.

Comment #12 :: link :: February 20, 2006 11:40 AM :: homepage
Charles Antrobus wrote:

So what if your son does turn out gay.

How cares you can change anything.

All you can do is love him for what he is staight gay bi trans whatever

It's his life not yours

What the most disturbing thing here is this web site.

Comment #13 :: link :: March 4, 2006 3:30 PM
Avon Ladyman wrote:

Ding dongs are my calling. Seeing my christian dad's big one made mine bigger too. My first orgasm happened during one of those "spare the rod and spoil the child" beatings. At first it hurt so bad...then it hurt so good. My dad would spout bible verses during each blow. "Wow," I thought as my doorbell rang for the first time, "so this is what christianity is all about."

Comment #14 :: link :: August 3, 2006 8:02 AM
anonymous wrote:

Dobson's right! Boys need to see their fathers' cocks. It is the father's responsibility to show it to him. Fathers, if you want to have a good relationship with your son, get naked in front of him. Let him know that it is okay for him to want to see what you're packing.

Comment #15 :: link :: February 13, 2007 12:20 AM
XtremeFaith wrote:

Most of you commenting have no real understanding of what Dobson is talking about, you are taking one piece of a quote out of contexts and missing the point. Yes your son might still choose to be gay, and you can still love him when you tell him it's wrong! Taking a shower with your son doesn't need to be a sick sexual joke, fact is men take showers after athletics and there's never been a problem with it. The problem is most men don't know how to be men and they either become overly macho by over-compensating or they act feminine because that's all they know. If men were today what men are suppose to be we wouldn't have the divorce rate that we do, nor the battered wives and the fatherless children. If you really think what many of you commented then you are really lost.

Comment #16 :: link :: October 19, 2007 1:35 AM
Nancy wrote:

I cannot believe that these people are allowed to breed. They are so scared of the Gay "agenda" (when the hell have more than two gay people ever agreed on anything???) Besides that, what the hell is he doing telling people they should take their son in the shower because they can compare penises?????? I would think that raising a child in a loving supportive environment regardless of the sexuality of the parents would have less tendency to "make" a child gay than to take showers with dad GROSS. I was raised in a very pro Dobson household and let me tell you, not only am I a very proud DYKE my brother is a big ol' nelly. Yes that is right, the truth is in the results...Mr. Dobson if you can read while you drag your wife around by the hair and carry your club think about this, Your advice does little except chase people away from the church and if you want to quote the bible as a weapon then quote this
Luke 6:37
Yes really Dykes read the bible we just try to read ALL of it
37"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

So, according to the RULES that Dobson goes around preaching one of Jesus's most repeated commandments appears in many passages in the New Testament says not to judge. I am not asking him to be a gay man I am just not judging his lack of acceptance. I forgive him his hatred, I forgive him his ignorance and above all I forgive him for teaching such drivel that it drives people to suicide everyday. His life in the hereafter is entirely up to God. Just as the way to make someone Gay or Straight is in the hands of the creator, not some egotistical meglomaniac that runs around teaching people rediculous notions.
Okay so now I step down from my soapbox and wish you all a sincere and heartfelt peaceful day.

Comment #17 :: link :: November 13, 2007 5:39 PM
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