Armor of god PJs

Okay, these pajamas are kind of cute, but the 'head-dresses' don't look like they would be so comfy for sleeping.

These remind me of the days when my son would only sleep in his Spiderman or Superman PJs.

What? No ordering information?

Whoops.

http://www.armorofgodpjs.com/product_information.htm

How do ya'll find all this stuff?

Wow, this is so entertaining partly because there are some many levels to be disturbed by - equating warrior and knightly armor with religion - arguing this will make someone feel safe! - trying to imagine how to convince a child that has just put on shining god armor PJ's to actually calm down and go to sleep, I would expect instant and escalating mock battles...

but, yeah, they are kind of cute...

I would have hoped that the designer would have noticed a similarity with the KKK garb and thought maybe some redesign might be called for. Oh well. Maybe they won't sell many. (Of course maybe the similarity with KKK attire is just in my mind.)

#5 - Yes, the mock battles would have ensued in my house.

#6 - Someone posted this link on Twitter:

http://unreasonablefaith.com/2009/07/13/armor-of-god-pjs/

And no, it's not just in your mind. I saw it, too.

#6 - I imagine the designer DID notice the similarity...

Do they come in adult sizes? I need some for camp next year. My pagan buddies will be so envious!

Am I the only one who wonders how flammable these things are??? They look like they're made out of that terribly uncomfortable silky material that shrinks and gets really static-y after one wash.

Do you mean like a hair shirt? It builds character.

My pajamas say "TRUTH" in the same place, too.

#13 - Not just a smidge lower?

They put my grandson in an atrocious thing with ears, and feet, and great big white and black polka dots. And they took pictures of it. And they called it cute.

I am afraid it will be scarring.

But I am really worried about these kids. Their photos are on the internet.

They put my grandson in an atrocious thing with ears, and feet, and great big white and black polka dots. And they took pictures of it. And they called it cute.

Was it the cousin to Ralphie's pink bunny pajamas in A Christmas Story? :)

It was awful, just awful. I don't really want to talk about it. Too painful.

>11 kaelirenee: how flammable these things are

The shield of faith needs to be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked.

Why make only the sword (of the Spirit) a metaphor?

Richard, you need to share this pain with Tim here relating to this photo of his son Liam.

Jim,

I cracked up laughing so hard that I had to explain the entire thread to my wife who is sitting here. I showed her the pic of Buddywuddy. BTW, my grandson is called the Diddle Buddy.

I swear its the same outfit, except my Diddle Buddy's had polka dots.

Unfortunately Buddywuddy and I share no books.

I do think you should pass along to Tim my pain. It is too much for me to discuss further. I fully agree with your #33 in the above linked topic.

ETA My wife of course was one of the guilty "they" in my comment #15, who put the Diddle in the atrocious thing. :) She said Liam was cute.

I wonder if the kids start feeling safe & secure before or after reciting the "If I should die before I wake" prayer.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
Guard me Jesus through the night,
And wake me with the morning light.

This is another version that may ease concerns. Several versions available on the Wikipedia page.

#22
If I were concerned about the "If I should die" prayer, why would knowing of other versions/stanzas "ease concerns"?

I suppose the idea of "my soul to keep" is protection against demonic invasion. Go to sleep and the devil (or Freddy) might get you.

I learned plenty of nonsensical rhymes as a small child, and never took any seriously. It was only as an adult that this one struck me as an odd bedtime exercise for children, and I wondered if any child had been disturbed by it.

My parents feared that the prospect of nocturnal death might be too much for a three year old, so they gave me a Now-I-lay-me with alternate last lines. I found that out when I was seven or eight, finally heard the death lines somewhere else, and asked my mother about it.

Robert

Reminds me of the lines from the lullaby:

Rock-a-bye baby, in the treetop,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.

Always struck me as a not very comfortable idea to fall asleep by.

My son was given a Prayer Bear that would spout off with the "Now I lay me" prayer whenever you pressed his little praying hands. That was donated very quickly. I had enough nightmares because of that prayer without subjecting my child to it, as well.

#22 Why should that 'ease concerns'? The kid's still chatting to fairytale characters and being invited to believe they're real. At least death actually IS going to come along sooner or later. I'd have been less than comforted by the thought of that guy whose pictures always show him on a cross dripping blood popping up to wake me in the morning. BOO!

#25 PortiaLong - but yet my 3-yr-old demands I we sing that to him every night, dropping into the bed at the end. He complains if we don't drop him far enough. It's remarkable how many nursery rhymes are actually pretty disturbing.

>28 dchaikin: - yes! But the alleged histories behind them are fascinating.

For the "When the bough breaks" one:
"In Derbyshire, England, local legend has it that the song relates to a local character in the late 1700s, Betty Kenny (Kate Kenyon), who lived with her charcoal-burner husband, Luke, and their eight children in a huge yew tree in Shining Cliff Woods in the Derwent Valley, where a hollowed-out bough served as a cradle." - from Wikipedia

For "ring-around-the rosie" - the association with the plague and rotting bodies - although this has apparently been discredited.

"London Bridge is falling down" etc.

A more obscure one I remember from childhood:

Late last night, when we were all in bed,
Old Lady Leary lit a lantern in the shed,
And when the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said:
"We'll have a hot time in the old town tonight!"

- referring to the Great Chicago Fire. (Although "Michael Ahern, the Chicago Republican reporter who created the cow story, admitted in 1893 that he had made it up because he thought it would make colorful copy." - also from Wikipedia.)

Ok,im really glad this mom wanted to make her kid feel safe at night,but...oh goodness those poor children

There is a tradition of hostile lullabies, which are what mamas sing when the baby has cried a little too long and a little to often and mama is a little too sleep deprived.

https://www.amherst.edu/users/S/msakrejdaleavitt/lullabies

>31 PhaedraB: - The second one doesn't seem hostile, though. Nor the third...