@MichaelNIXG WHY would anyone think this was ok, why is it "tradition"? Whose tradition? Humiliating? Yes. Disrespectful? Yes. Inappropriate? 100%! Traumatizing? Yes. Costly? Yes. Cakes, hair, makeup & clothes are expensive. The time & effort expended and her dignity - completely disregarded
@FDyroff@toobaffled@carsonkrow As a child in the '60's in Australia I attended a measles party and a chicken pox party and I had German measles a couple years later - never had mumps although it went around the school several times. When my brother had scarlet fever at age 12 my parents put my cot in his room