Chioldren not alolowed to be children?

[DrChandra]

Is it just me who thinks it is getting to a stage where children cannot just be kids? Nowadays you can buy underwear for 10 year olds with "sinner" and "I love make-up" on and make-up is more and their toys are heavily made-up dolls like "bratz".It is just not right.

[redcrx]

personally i think that its wrong that girls clothes are just smaller versions of womens clothing. But dolls like Sindy and Barbie are not really different to bratz and theyve been around for years. Girls like wearing mums make-up and playing dressing up. they just dont need the mini skirts and underwear thats marketed now

BTW as Children is in the title, perhaps this should be in parenting! :)

[B00]

Ooooo I totally agree, hate all the 'slapperish' slogany T-shirts very young girls are wearing, typical example is "if you think i'm a b**** wait till you see my mum".....

And seeing as you've mentioned underwear, why are they all crop tops? Why do you struggle to find good old fashioned vests?

[s3ahors3]

i know what you mean my daughter is 11 and she plays with bratz but fortunately is still into little girls stuff not make up or boys yet thank god i remember wen we made things and kids had to use there imaginations everything is done for them now

[annavc]

Totally agree. The other day I saw a girl who can't have been more than 10 years old at the most, walking along with her parents - she was wearing a tiny crop top and very low slung jeans with "Kiss this" written on her bottom. I couldn't believe it. She also had make up on. I think the parents should be shot for allowing that frankly. Turning your 10 year old child into a sex object has to be very very wrong.

[DrChandra]

No it is not about parenting it is about society and there is no category for something like that so I thought that this is the section for questions that do not fit anywhere.

[DrChandra]

Thanks I just don't know how they can make a profit on such clothing.Maybe I am being an old fashioned old man but I cannot see many parents letting their children buy such clothing.

[laurence2]

Redcrx, the penny hasen't dropped yet?

In answer to your question Doc,
i agree with what your saying, also look at all these beauty pageant shows the Yanks put on, little girls dressing up as beauty queens, and the parents encouraging it, to win MONEY, it is a society thing now i,m afraid

[noxlumos]

I was going to mention that the very same parents that are hysterical about a paedophile being round every corner are often the very ones that dress their little girls like 10 year old prostitutes.
I am not prudish about little girls dressing however is comfortable for them, however I have huge issues with the sexualisation of little girls by society and I cannot believe some of the outfits that are available. At the moment our 8 year old thinks they look "cheap, tacky and gross" but clearly a lot of little girls don't as this pseudo-sexual junk is rammed down their throat as being trendy.
It's also dangerous, because I was out clubbing in town and saw one of my 12 year old son's friends whose a girl in a nightclub with her other 12 year old friend at 2.00am looking for all the world about 21 and surrounded by lads. She wasn't impressed when I called my wife who then took her home. Her parents weren't happy but she still dresses like a trollop so where is their common sense?

[redcrx]

L2, do you mean the penny that drops into the spaces between sentances?

[teag1rl]

erm yeah, and what about that poor girl who's killer is only just being brought o book after years in the States-she was baby beauty queen-lil kids made up like and taught to flirt like adults. It's just wrong.

[laurence2]

the last sentence of your 1st posting ie parenting

[tictactoe]

What are Chioldren?

[raysparx1]

When I see kiddies dressed like this I find it a bit freaky, why can't kids just be kids,they grow up too fast as it is, crazy world,isn't it !!!

[suffragette]

I find the sexualisation of our children quite unnerving. It's a shame young girls cannot even finish Primary School before being targetted by a small section of the clothing market as nothing more than the next generation of slappers.

[freak_unique]

Ive noticed this how cheap and tarty young girls clothes are getting! i mean i am only 21 but at 8 years old i was being dressed in plain old jogging bottoms and t shirts/jumpers nothing like this! i started to question if i was just completely un stylish at that age but i wouldnt be seen dead in half the short tops and stuff now let alone then!

[Octavius]

Nowadays? Compared to when exactly?

Children in the years between, say (lets leave BC aside) 1000AD to 1700AD were subjected to the same as any adult. They were involved in mass migration (no secure home) because of feuding and wars/battles, they were often sold into slavery/marriage, were more often than not abused by their masters (if not their parents), they had no social status (unless they had royal or aristocrat blood) and were made to serve anyone who controlled them - in any way they liked. They were often the subject of sacrificial rite and should they be unfortunately lacking in �warrior� like (or slave like for girls) qualities then they would be outcasts of the village and forced to survive alone, at the mercy of any foe.

In, say, 1700 society suddenly found that children had a use (Workhouse Test Act) in that they could perform menial tasks for a pittance. Up until about 1914 this was probably the case, you know children down mines, up chimneys, pick pocketing etc (you know standard Dickens stuff) and then with the event of WW1 & WW2, children often had no mother or father to care for them as they were contributing to the war effort or fighting on the front line, not to forget being shipped out to the nether-regions of the UK during the evacuation, never mind the number of orphan�s resulting from 2 world wars.

Kids of today? - never had it so good.

[bobtheturkey]

children are mainly spoilt obnoxious little brats nowadays who are only given birth to as a fashion statement by air head parents who fail to give them the attention they need to mature into good kids who respect their elders and betters, instead of running wild terrorizing old people and the like.

[noxlumos]

Octavius, we all know about children's roles throughout history, I think it was obvious that we were discussing the recent trend in the sexualisation of children via their apparell in modern society that was not so omni-present say 10 years ago.

[pie+mash]

Wasting your time, theres some that dont READ the question.