Posted on 03/25/2011 8:58:30 AM PDT by pabianice
Abercrombie and Filth?
Another step towards making them prostitots.
I get that, I should have been more clear. That is not what my granddaughter’s friends are wearing. These bras used to be called training bras, used for early development. What you find at these stores in many cases look like jr Victoria Secret.
I am always shocked when I picker her up from school how the girls dress, they are children for crying out loud, not adults.
Abercrombie and Fitch: Clothes only a Child Molester can love.
We’re on the same page.
Some girls need a bra or t-shirt to wear under their garments because of early development. My girls only 12 and she has had to wear something since she was 10.
I don’t believe parents should do anything that would promote their young kids looking “attractive”. Parents out there will know what I mean by that.
Should your kids look well maintained, with decent clothes? Sure. Should they look even the slightest bit enticing well beyond their years? Hell no.
In a former life I had to fight with the Mrs. to keep our young daughter from using make-up, dressing in clothes that made her look older and more appealing that she should have, for her years.
That being said, you don’t blame kids for enticing. Being a responsible adult, you should still try to make sure they are not enticing. The last thing I would ever want to have happen, is for one of my kids to look appealing to an abuser.
That being said, there’s only so much you can do. You do your best and pray.
I wouldn’t mind at all if there was a law out there that criminalized businesses trying to capitalize on sexifying young children.
What’s the up-side for society for enhancing the sexuality of an eight year old?
This NAMBLAesque (for boys or girls) mindset makes my blood boil.
You are correct all around. None of our kids’ friends EVER called us by our first names. We never had to tell them either...but you don’t get respect if you don’t earn it.
Parents are silly today. The way they act the way they talk with the kids and the way they allow the kids to talk to them. We told our kids we are NOT your friends. We are your parents and it is our JOB to do right by you and....we will tell you the TRUTH NOT what you want to hear from your friends which is nothing productive.
Being a good parent is the most important job on earth and...as a sign I saw one time said: “Parenting is not for sissies.!!”
oops better read the post twice before posting : )
Little girls used to go shirtless exactly like little boys—at the beach, for instance. This seems to be no longer true. It’s ridiculous—and it is a sign of the sexualization of toddlers.
“Training bras” and T-shirts are one thing, it is the matching Jr Victoria Secret bra/pantie sets I am talking about, which I have said.
I had a classmate that had her period in 4th grade, too. She was on the plump side, which I understand is a factor for early puberty.
Unfortunately, my 11 year old granddaughter does not require “padded” bras. She also isn’t allowed to buy from Abercrombie and Fitch.
Human beings are not always rational, but they do rationalize. “How could it possibly be wrong? I do it.”
I think what we see as wrong, is relative to many things, mostly the individual and the customs/mores of the times.
Are you saying that you don’t believe in any absolute truth?
No, I believe we each have an absolute truth instilled in us by God, but it’s individual, not an absolute truth for everyone.
I keep taking my daughter into local Christian bookstores to ask if they have, or would consider, swimwear that is modest.
I do this to get them to consider it, and to get my daughter to realize that I am not the only person who thinks modesty is the way to go, as the staff invariably begin discussing their difficulty finding the same.
Are you then saying that individuals apply God’s truth to their own situation, so the individual’s outcome may differ person to person? Or that there is only a loose definition of truth out there that each individual is free to interpret as they will?
No, I believe that God applies His truth to each of us individually, and that that truth varies from soul to soul.
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