Chief"s "Nudist News" was emailed to me today. It contains an article from a paper in Edinburgh, Scotland that I think is important reading for families.

http://www.sundayherald.com/43106

Newspaper articles sometimes come and go quickly. If you can't access it directly, try Chief's home page:

http://cheef.com/

The title on the above post was supposed to read "Fun and Touching Article."

Sorry about that.

It is a touching article. When you think you understand your children, or think they understand you, then you realize that the world got to them in a way you did not know, understand or approve of.

Then your children become strangers in your own home. They create values all their own and you find yourselves "naked" and they look at you as if you lost your mind. When all you did was the same thing you did when they were five and had no problems.

Being close to your children is more important than some may think. children are not "Little adults". They need you all the way through. The fact that you don't know what they do at concerts or what their friends are like, or what they believe, shows we have not done our duty to make sure they were willing to tell you on their own. They should be comfortable enough to not only be naked, but be willing to say "Mom, Dad, I got an issue I need to talk about" and you should be willing to sit down, shut up, and listen.

That is why on this forum we always encourage the teens to talk to their parents about their interest in naturism when they come to us here on the board. They are either afraid to talk to their parents about it, or just don't know what to say or how to do it.

Some teens out there are interested in naturism, but they are interested in their own pace. And it seems that either the parents force it on the teens or the teens force it on the parents. Here, we suggest mutual agreement via family talks.

Some families take their nudity for granted and not understand the social implications of it. If they do not take the time to move "nudity around the house for sanity sake" to the next level, then nudity is only the time it requires to bathe and put on clothes for the next activity. So what another member of the family is present. It is not naturism as we know of it.

But some families won't even go that far. They will not even allow thier children even a glimpes of them. That is a shame too. I would rather see the casual nudity, even if not for naturism, than none at all. So the families that do allow nudity, even if only for bathing purposes, are far ahead of the game than the stuffed up families where their children cannot care for them in their old age.

Boyd "Take the next step" Allen

"Some families won't even go that far. They will not even allow thier children even a glimpes of them."

That's my family. I've never seen any member of my immediate family in less than shorts. As the youngest, I'm sure they all saw me when i was a small child, but that's it. They were (are) kind of hung up on stuff like that.

Kevin