Children at the Vermont State Fair, September 1941.
Posted on 12/04/2005 11:20:04 AM PST by wagglebee
Children at the Vermont State Fair, September 1941.
How come I didn't have an uncle like you when I was her age ?????
I'm glad you were able to redirect her, and keep your promise.
Unless she overheard a conversation between my husband and I, I'm not sure why my daughter has the attitude she does about the 'slut dolls' but I don't care - I guess we're doing something right!!!
Judging from the many pre-teens (even young children) dressing themselves this way with parents in tow, I'd have to say yes.
Those are new ones on me.......what are they played on?
There are several of those type dresses in my 7year old's closet. Along with the denim jumper the toddler is in.
We shop for clothes at a lot of 2nd-hand stores when it comes to clothing for our girls.
It's getting harder and harder to find jeans that aren't made skin-tight and/or hip-hugging. Sometimes, with our 5 year old, we have to buy her boys jeans, just so she has play clothes that are modest and appropriate.
My wife has been learning how to make dresses, she's been using the sewing machine more and more. It's indeed a blessing.
They are until your 6-year-old moves the alligator from his cage and places it among the crowd.
I still haven't gotten over buying a pair of jeans for my two year old little girl, only to put them on her at home and find they were low-rise. Dresses are still okay, though I find I have to buy a size three or four otherwise they're too short.
May I suggest purchasing the Toughskin brand blue jeans available in the boys' department of Sears? They are called "relaxed fit," but they fit my VERY slim boys nicely, thereby allowing them to look neat in them, and not like a pair of gangbanger wannabes.
I not only get my own boys those jeans, but I purchase them for my neices as well. No embroidered butterflies on them, but by golly, the waistline is ON THE WAIST, and they really take a beating before wearing out, too.
Meanwhile, I'm forced to spend a small fortune shopping at Lord and Taylor in order to buy the girls nice dresses. I simply will not spend my money on the streetwalker styles available in most other stores.
Regards,
A breath of fresh air, a rumble of common sense ...
I agree that it's tough to find clothes for girls that are decent, modest, and reasonably priced. Even the secondhand stores aren't as useful as one would wish, because they like to stock what's fashionable.
However, we're just about done shopping for seven children 14-and-under, and I've had no difficulty at all finding suitable toys, games, crafts, CD's, and books.
That is a sad commentary on today's state of affairs: if it's popular for teenage girls to dress like streetwalkers, then it's only logical for little girls to want to play with streetwalker dolls. You're right about this, but to be blase about it, and say, "Well that's just the way things are today" is not something that many parents are willing to do. We're not saying the world has to be kidproofed; we just want the "kid world" to be kid-friendly.
I'm not in favor of banning things.
We can agree to disagree on that one, LOL.
I'm in favor of parent's making appropriate choices for their children.
And that I agree with whole heartedly. I have a young daughter & I'm a young mom who is probably more with it than the average parent. I'm always amazed at the stupidity of people much older than myself. I know one very nice woman in her 40's who lets her seven year old listen to 50 cent and then wonders where the daughter "learned all those bad words". It's as if some parents have no clue that their child-rearing decisions have consequences.
LOL! You've got a kid like mine. When my son was about 4 and playing Rollercoaster Tycoon, he'd take the kids who were ready to throw up and toss them in the lake. He didn't want them messing up his park.
NeoPets is a website (neopets.com) but my daughter informed me that it will be on Play Station this Christmas.
Animal Crossing is my personal favorite (way too cute) and is a Nintendo game. Zoo Tycoon (1 & 2) is a PC game, but as another poster mentioned, if you let the fierce animals out of their exhibits they will eat the guests, although there's no blood or gore, they just disappear.
I've got three granddaughters so I suddenly started looking at dolls.
Ugh.
I buy them legos. Problem solved.
There's a terrific Lego dollhouse for which one granddaugter designed a great plumbing system with filters and everything.
And 90% of them have no business at all doing it, because all you see is fat bulging over; as for the rest, they are walking advertisements promoting anorexia/bulimia for young girls.
I think we're all in favor of parents making responsible choices. Unfortunately, not all parents make responsible choices and it's their children who are hurting mine. My daughter knows all about what goes on in that Vice City video game, not because she's allowed to play it (she's not), but because her friends told her, right down to the details about the prostitutes and the vulgar words used. Now how do I stop that?
I'm not for banning things either. But I am for forcing manufacturers, advertisers, entertainers, etc. to have some sort of social responsibility. Supply and demand. We have to stop buying and start complaining.
It's a constant uphill battle that's not being fought by enough people.
I fear it's going to get worse before it gets better.
San Andreas! I love that game!
"Unfortunately, not all parents make responsible choices and it's their children who are hurting mine. "
OK, so what's your suggestion to fix this? Do you want to dictate choices for others? Do you want to decide what others should do, based on your own beliefs and standards?
Where do you stop with that? Problem is that to eliminate all the stuff you don't like, and to force others to make the same choices you would make you have to throw freedom away.
Don't like the Bratz dolls? Ban them. Don't like video games for adults? Ban them. Sorry, but that's not how it works in this country.
You're responsible for your behavior and that of your children. You make those choices. Others, for better or worse, make other choices.
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