[PleaseNoMore]

Exactly! I don't accept that "marketing to kids" crap. I am the mother and I am the one with control over the credit card/checkbook/cash. *I* have the ultimate say in what my daughter or son has on her or his back when they walk out of my house to go into public.

It all comes down to the kid feeling a need to have the attention drawn to him or her. If the parents were doing a half decent job of nurturing their kids, they wouldn't feel the insecurity they obviously feel and would not need to dress scantily to attract attention to themselves. And yes, I have a preteen daughter and a teenage son so I know of what I speak, lol.

[Paul Atreides]

It is bad enough seeing slutty clothing on thirteen year old girls, but to see it on girls half that age is truly sad.

[Pedantic_Lady]

Exactly! I don't accept that "marketing to kids" crap. I am the mother and I am the one with control over the credit card/checkbook/cash. *I* have the ultimate say in what my daughter or son has on her or his back when they walk out of my house to go into public.

Some kids carry more revealing clothes in their backpacks and change on the way to school or at school. Some kids buy clothes like this with money earned from after-school jobs and hide it from their moms and dads. You're right for not giving in, though, and telling them no. I wish more parents did that. When I have kids, I plan to do the same.