This bimbo, Rihanna, is far from a role model for the youth.
Posted on 04/20/2011 4:29:15 AM PDT by EnjoyingLife
I get it, Rihanna's really popular. But that's a pretty weak reason for someone to dress their little girl like her.
I don't care how popular Lil' Wayne is, my son knows I would break both of his legs long before I would allow him to walk out of the house with his pants falling off his butt. Such a stance doesn't always makes me popular -- and the house does get tense from time to time -- but I'm his father, not his friend.
Friends bow to peer pressure. Parents say, "No, and that's the end of it."
The way I see it, my son can go to therapy later if my strict rules have scarred him. But I have peace knowing he'll be able to afford therapy as an adult because I didn't allow him to wear or do whatever he wanted as a kid.
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Amen
Just last week my 22-year-old daughter was complaining that guys at the bar (including her male friends who had girlfriends) were hitting on her like crazy. I later found out she wore short-shorts with heels. My husband had to explain to her (again!) how a guy's mind works. I had to explain to her that dressing like a prostitute could get her killed.
My daughter is a very sweet, level-headed kid. She is just naive when it comes to the "dark side" of the world. She knows she has amazing legs and she was showing them off.
The parenting never stops.
When my daughter made the transition from toddler sizes to girls, I got a shock. Most of it was “slutwear”; shirts and skirts too short, hot pants, low-cut tops, defiant phrases, etc. I had to look far and wide for appropriate clothing that fit properly. I resorted to the Lands End catalog a LOT, as well as my sewing machine.
That was 12 years ago. I know it’s gotten worse over the years. Even boys clothing has taken a turn towards “thugwear.”
My kids always wanted me to buy them new pants with holes in them.
I said if you want them you pay for them but I throw stuff like that away and buy new whole jeans
This bimbo, Rihanna, is far from a role model for the youth.
What is really disgusting is when the daugther and the mother are wearing the same clothes!
I am seeing more and more of this.
I think our problem is no one wants to be the grown up anymore.
Yep.
Excellent article. We’ve turned an entire generation of girls into plumbers with the low rise jeans thing. (just say no to crack)
I know exactly what you are talking about. My daughter is 12 and finding appropriate clothes is murder.
Thankfully, when they hit middle school, the "layered" look with long tops under shorter ones was the rage and they were able to find girls' clothing.
You have to be a really dedicated parent to be able to find modest girl’s clothing. Lands End is still a safe haven. My girls live in their dresses and leggings year round. They also have the only girl jeans I’d let my girls wear. Not low or tight. They wore boy jeans before that. I can’t sew but am arranging for my girls to learn. They may not have Lands End for their girls someday.
took my youngest to Burlington Coat Factory right after Christmas. She is starting to *grow up*, and mom told me to take her over there and get some training bra’s.
Ok, fine, I’m a big man, I can handle that... I think.
Well, 9 of 10 of the bras were padded. Now, not knowing that this is not normal, or what I should do, I phoned my wife, and asked her if training bra’s have padding. She had a hissy fit on me, and basically sighed at sending a man out to do what she should have done, because obviously I had no idea what I was doing.
So, home we came, and later that night, wife and daughter head off to Burlington again. Wife came home empty handed. She said it wasn’t that I didn’t know what I was looking for, she said it was that all they had for 10 year old girls was padded bra’s and “push em up” bras.
She went to Wal-Mart and found what she needed.
Now, another story, which I’ll make short, same daughter in 1st grade, I drop her off to her line where they wait to be let in the school, and am walking away and notice a girl in her class with a shirt that says “SWEET and SLUTTY” on the front of it.
Welcome to the suburbs of Chicago.
That is not always disgusting, although I know what you are talking about. You're not talking about situations like what occurred in my house this morning. By the time she got on the bus, my 12yo daughter was wearing the same thing as I'm wearing......jeans and a polo shirt. This occurred only after I stopped her at the door for only wearing a tanktop under her jacket.
Keep her away from Laz.
This article is using two rappers as examples. How appropriate.
I hate Abercrombie. The clothes are inspired by satan
I have 3 daughthers, the oldest is 9. Regarding clothes, I resigned myself some time ago that they’ll all hate me when they’re teenagers. LOL. Ah well, life as Mom.
Elen (13) and I spent yesterday afternoon at Dress Barn and ended up with very tasteful floral print dresses, slightly contrasting (purple flowers, a bit of yellow). We now wear the same size dresses and shoes, although her feet are still growing (which will leave all the new shoes to me, by June).
It takes some effort to find clothes that are attractive and morally decent, but it’s not impossible, especially here in Baptist country where the saleslady knows you want to cover up decently. Jeans are the hardest - almost everything is “low-rise,” “skinny,” or both. I removed my son’s jeans from his drawer and gave them to The Salvation Army, since he insisted on showing his undershorts.
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