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So Im out at the store today in the juniors dept and i see this cute girl (not sexy cute but the traditional darling innocent cute). Anyway shes probably about 13-14 looks like about a size 0. So shes trying on clothes and her Grandmother (im guessing since she looked to be in her 60s) is handing this girl the skimpiest shorts and tops she could find. I see this girl come out one time with a pair of denim shorts that made her look like an invisible wedge was being shoved up between her butt cheeks or something. Another time she came out wearing a pair of white cotton shorts that while very cute gave the girl a very bad case of camel toe. All the while the girl's GrandMother is exclaiming "omg that is just sooo cute! We have to find you more stuff like that!" I was like ...i mean do people actually go out and buy their kids and grandkids this stuff? then turn around and talk all day about child predators? I see this kind of behavior everywhere. Why do parents feel the need to dress their daughters so provocatively? Are parents really that...(i dont want to say stupid here)....air headed?
Ugh! I have 3 girls and I'm completely over the way young girls are being sexualized. I can easily find my four year old a pair of heels or wedges, and at a recent school sleepover my 11 year old was one of THREE girls (of about 20) who weren't wearing the booty shorts you described. I see older guys checking out little pre-teen girls all the time in the malls wearing these skimpy clothes, it's disgusting.
Well, first of all, please be careful... I had my daugter at 47, so I will be in my 60's when she's 14!
That being said, I do know exactly what you mean! My daugter is 8 now, and I see this same way of dressing with a few of her friends. But, that's how their mothers dress also. One little girl actually wears eye make-up to school. When I go on Facebook to moniter my sons activities and look at the pictures that 14-15 year old girls are posting of themselves I am shocked. I would never in a million years allow my daughter to do that. I'm not sure what people are thinking. There are ways to look cute and stylish without looking like a, well, what they look like.
I don't know...my friends who are parents don't do that. The one's oldest is starting to get into that area of shopping and oh my god...you would of thought it was the end of the world that she couldn't get this one tank top that was cut way too low. The mom was trying to be nice about it and suggest other things and she was just being TOO nice. I told the girl to just put it back because it would make creepy old men stare at her and think she is older and ask her on dates. Like that guy. (pointed one out who was...lol....) She put it back with lollypop eyes. Mom was relieved.
She is only old enough to really get what it fully means but she was grossed out by that old man. LOL
I think there are 2 types of parents that approve of that look:
Moms trying to reclaim their lost youth due to parenthood
Parents trying to be the "cool" parents
I remember back when I was a kid, there were so many perfectly innocuous styles that my mom did not approve of. (The shirts that changed colors....). She was so conservative. Even now, she calls my sister and I out for cleavage event though we are in our 30s. (I don't show much cleavage when I do.)
I remember back when I was a kid, there were so many perfectly innocuous styles that my mom did not approve of. (The shirts that changed colors....).
Hyper color....I had one.
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...i mean do people actually go out and buy their kids and grandkids this stuff? then turn around and talk all day about child predators? I see this kind of behavior everywhere. Why do parents feel the need to dress their daughters so provocatively? Are parents really that...(i dont want to say stupid here)....air headed?
