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"I really want to be a teenager. Now. Really fast," says Lily, 6, in one of the revealing interviews that accompany the photographs. "(Teenagers) dress up cool so boys like them. I saw it in a movie. They get dressed so fashionable, like a doll and stuff. They usually do this cool makeup, like lipstick. And a really blushy face. It's cool."

As opposed to my 6 year-old daughter, who 'gallops' around the house in her panties pretending she's a horse, Bambi, or one of our dogs.....who will dress up in sweatpants, a leotard (over the sweats), her pink cowboy hat, and a backpack, and then want to go to town....who deliberately eats onions and garlic just so she can chase her older brothers around the house to *breathe* heavily on them.....has no clue who Britney Spears is.....and makes up her own vocabulary of words like "beanstrapper" and "poopsnotter" when she can't think of anything else.

In other words, she's totally innocent of pop culture, she does her own thing, and she's a lunatic. Oh, and she doesn't go to school, thank God, where all of this would be shamed out of her for being different.

She sounds like a really good kid! (She sounds like my little niece.)

And while I'm not one of the Freepers who feels popular culture is evil, I think kids benefit from some sheltering from it, especially at younger ages.

In other words, she's totally innocent of pop culture, she does her own thing, and she's a lunatic. Oh, and she doesn't go to school

Sounds like my homeschooled 7-year-old. Although I'd have to add that when presented with a choice between pretty, traditional clothes and the latest thing, she almost always chooses traditional clothes.