Do you think children are being encouraged to be too "s**y"???

Question

There's been recent hype about 10 year olds on the catwalk in skimpy outfits and Barbie is getting skankier every year...I could go on but you get my drift...

Do you think it is a problem?

Answer 1

This all comes back to the goveurnment.

Companies increase their line of things little children want, parents are forced to buy it, 17.5% winds up in George W. Bush's pocket.

Answer 2

Yes. I dress my daughter in normal clothes. She will be 4 in August.

Answer 3

Yes I'm in seventh grade but we have a dress code. But if you arn't wearing american eagle or hollister nobody likes you it's crazy oh yeah and Bill Nye the science guy RULES yes we still watch that in 7th grade!

Answer 4

It's not a problem for me, since I insist my child dresses decently no matter what everyone else does.

Really, it's only a problem for parents who want to be sheep instead of making their own decisions. If you don't want your ten year old to dress S****y, then don't let them. If you don't approve of Barbie, don't buy them.

Answer 5

yes waaaaayyyyyyyyyy too much

Answer 6

No. Society has changed. It isn't the 1950's anymore.

Yes I agree that little children that get dressed up as s****s, is just wrong and stupid, but if people want their children to be fashionable and cool, then so what? It's their decision.

Children are developing earlier too. You can't force a 10 year old to sit around and play dolls, because that's what her grandparents did, if she has matured past that stage. Time are changing.

Answer 7

Yes, its all about the money and what the companies can sell to kids.  When I was a kid I was embarrassed to wear a spaghetti strap style top, and I would have died if I had to wear a strapless top!  And I dont come from a super conservative family or anything.  Now....!?  These kids are wearing mini dresses  and showing their mid-driffs.  Its gross, and the parents should be doing something about it. 's**y'...it comes from the word 's*x' after all and in the same sentence with a 10 year old?  It makes me physically ill.

Answer 8

Yes!  The outfits I have seen grade school girls going to school in are totally out of bounds!  I keep telling my husband that I'm so glad we had 3 sons so I don't  have to deal with this issue!  I keep asking myself why their mothers allow them to dress like that?  6th grade graduation was another real show!  It worries me that young girls think they have to dress that way to attract attention at their young age.  I wonder do they really know what they are trying to attract?  Or are they dressing that way because the celebs do it?

Answer 9

all you have to do to answer this question is to go into the underware section for 6 year olds. There are padded bras and the likes.

But these would not be there if some parents were not buying it. i personally dress my daughter like the 9 year old she is. The problem is when you get to the size 7 and up then the 7 year olds have the same clothesas the 14 year olds. It is sad.

Answer 10

Yes, I do.

Answer 11

oh i know what you mean. I was at six flags the other day and i saw this girl, she couldn't have been older then 9 years old. She was wearing the ripped tiny blue jean booty shorts. with her shirt unbuttoned and tied in a knot to show off her stomach. I though there is now way her parents let her leave home like that, maybe she changed here i though, But no she was with her MOM. I was disgusted. I do think they are making clothes tinier and tinier every year. My daughter is really skinny and could pull off the starved barbie runway model look, but I'm glad she does not like that stuff. its getting harder to find clothes for her though because every where we go the shorts are too short and the shirts are too tight. Sometimes she goes to the boy dept. just to but her sports shorts. I don't know if parents think its cute for their daughters to look like s***s. or if their fat mothers are living through their skinny daughters. I know that sound harsh but come on they are children and should be dressed appropriately.

Answer 12

I think so. Too much pressure is being put on younger kids these days to dress certain ways. Whatever happened to Bill Nye the Science guy? Now it's all Bratz and Hannah Montana.

Answer 13

It concerns me. I have a little girl who is only 9 months, but I'm sure I will be faced with it sooner or later. Unfortuanately its all out there whether its fashion, dolls, music...etc. The way that I see it is that my child is exactly that...a child! It is my job as a parent to influence her in the ways I think is right. As the parent, I will be buying her clothes, I will be monitoring watch she watches and listens to, I buy her toys. If I see something I think is inappropriate, I will simply refuse to buy it for her. Thats about all we can all do and in the future it may pay off in a huge way. If we all adopt this attitude, the barbies and the skimpy outfits may well be taken off the shelves because they aren't selling. I don't want to be an 'overprotective' or 'boring' mum, but I have a duty to all of my children to guide them in what I believe to be the right direction. There's plenty of time for all of that.