Now let me remind you that these shoes were being marketed not to 30-year-old call girls or 20-year-old single girls but to preschoolers....PRESCHOOLERS!
As a mom of girls, this subject can get me on my soapbox in no time flat. So here it goes...let me step up on it now.
I'm sure most of you heard about the study that came out last week...1 in every 4 teenage (14-19) girls have an STD. Appalling! So since this is my soapbox, I'm going to give my opinion about why this is happening.
We let our two-year-old dress like 20-year-olds. Don't believe me? Just walk through the girls' section in your local department store. We think it's cute when their little round bellies stick out of the cute little two-piece swimsuits.
So when do you start teaching them modesty? My answer? Yesterday!
We can't have our toddlers running around scantily clad but then teach them as teenagers that their bodies are temples.
Modesty. It's that simple.
Ok, soapbox rant over...I'll get down now!
Carrie
I agree with you!
It makes me glad we have boys. Now, there is a whole other set of issues that go with them.
i TOTALLY agree with you!! teaching modesty now will 100% squash the problem in the teen years. they won't be able to use the argument of "well you let me where them before".
also EVERY time i see inapropriate clothing in a store i frequent i write a STRONGLY worded letter and encourage my friends to do the same. we stopped shopping at a clothing store here locally because of the style of clothing the were selling. seriously they were clothes that looked like they should be wrapped around a stripper pole...in little girl sizes...GROSS!
Totally agree with your Carrie! I am shocked at what I see on young girls these days. You know it must be bad if I get shocked, right? ;)
I'm alwasy stunned that they sell this stuff in the girls' department and little else. In the women's department they sell such clothing, but you just walk a little further toward the wall and there is stuff you might actually wear. For the little girls there doesn't seem to be much else.
Of course, I am the mother of three little boys, so hoochie clothing isn't my clothing complaint! ;)