BAD Reads
This is Just WRONG...
I was already fuming about getting clothes for my kids when I came across this dilly of an article in Saturday's Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/24/AR2006032402188.html
For those of you not bothering to look at it, it concerns a chain of stores called "Club Libby Lu". There little girls get to dress up in the sort of clothing Brittney Spears would wear in a video, have tons of makeup plastered onto their beautiful perfect skin and are encouraged to "shake their booties" and flaunt their stuff--even though most of them won't HAVE stuff for another 5 to 10 years!
Something is very very wrong here when moms are watching their 3 year olds dressed up as little sexpots and are PAYING money to do so. And when they find this MORAL and acceptable.
Go ahead, moms. Find this cute. Just shrug your shoulders and say "oh well, this is what they want".
Bullshit. This is what you have TAUGHT them to want!
These kids have got plenty of time to be teenagers and adults. But being a kid, having that incredible sense of possibilties, being able to pretend to be anything you want to be on your own terms, IN YOUR OWN WAY is being taken from these children.
The publicist for Club Libby Lu is right about this much "....you only turn 7 or 8 once"
These poor, overindulged little girls are losing the best part of being a kid. Instead they're being turned into extremely prebubescent Lolitas by moms who are rushing them out of their childhoods.
And don't be surprised if when little Lexy, whose mom describes her as a "braniac", and the three year old with the lip gloss and the tiara, and all the other little girls in this article do some things their parents are going to find not so cute when they become teenagers................
