I have a beautiful athletic daughter who plays sports, but she loves to wear the short running shorts and spandex workout pants all the time, I try to express that this is immodest but she just gets frustrated and says that its comfortable. My daughter is a wonderful young woman who loves the gospel but I feel she truly doesn't understand the importance of modesty. She doesn't like knee length shorts or dresses/skirts that come to the knee, they either must be above the knee or to the floor. She is very thin and well built and the more I try to help her understand the need for modesty the more she gets frustrated with me, she loves the tight workout clothes and the sheer tops, how do I help her understand and gain a testimony of modesty? All her friends and many of which are LDS as well, dress similarly, which makes it even more difficult for me. She is now 18 and getting ready to go to college and will be in an area with a very small LDS population and I fear she will subcome to social pressure and abandon her already weak standards of modesty, please help me find a way to reach her that will not offend her.--Thank you all for your comments and thoughts, I don't want to teach my daughter that she should dress to help men control their thoughts, and I know she is an adult and has to gain her own testimony, but I also know that, it's not easy being modest in todays society, what I'm looking for are ways to help her better understand the importance of modesty so she can gain a testimony of it without sounding preachy. I am her step-mom and have been with her most of her life- she is gorgeous and could be a model - and I honestly believe she feels that there isn't anything wrong with how she dresses because everyone else is doing it, I know I have a great kid and I am grateful for that I just want to make sure she has a clear understanding before she goes off to college.
