To think kids shouldn't wear bikinis?

Hard agree. High risk of sunburn if at the beach unless you use literally the whole bottle of sun cream. I'd also be paranoid about creeps staring at her a busy day at the beach you have thousands of unknown people there.

I hated bikinis as a kid myself

@Whatabouthow

Because little girls don't have boobs to hold the top in place. They come up and move around and aren't very comfortable. It is a piece of clothing designed for an adult body that does not fit a prepubescent one.
Huh?
These don't come up and move around? You don't need boobs to hold these in place

If I wss going abroad, I'd let my 5 year old wear a bikini - crop top style (with plenty of sunscreen). Easier to get on and off for toileting, and I don't sexualise children

It's not a one or the other situation though, is it?

Plus, there's bikinis and then there's bikinis . Some are literally a grown up model (which often gets advertised as sexy) in a very small size or weird ones with cutoffs and all kinds of straps and things, designed to emphasise certain characteristics of a grown woman's body, which is fair enough, but completely pointless, cumbersome and just wrong on a small child's body.

Why? Are you sexually attracted to little girls??

I tend to do a quick posting history on people who start a thread and never come back to it. It makes me question their intentions.
This poster has quite a few.
Just be wary what you're posting.

I sort of get the point that there could be an implication that little girls nipples should be hidden but honestly i think most little girls who want a bikini simply want to be like mummy/big sister/fun auntie sarah etc.

A lot of little children prefer clear gender signals over ambiguity, especially at the age where there start to be rules - at school girls go in the girls loo & boys in the boys. In my experience quite a lot of girls at 6/7 like things like bikinis because they recognise it as a gender marker, and they are quite happy being girls/girly and recognised as such. I think its healthier for girls as they head towards puberty to view an adult woman's body as positive/a desirable thing to become, than to feel unconfident or disgusted by the notion they will grow breasts/hips.

My DD just wore bikini bottoms or swimsuit. I don’t like bikinis on pre pubescent girls.

I don't like them, for various reasons, and neither did DD until about 12.

When she was little she had the two piece shorts and Tshirt things. Then tankinis or shorts/board shorts and vests for holidays , or one pieces for school/indoor swimming.

Agree it’s weird until teenage years

Dd likes a tankini type thing, way easier for toileting

My daughter wears them because it's easier if she needs the toilet. They are usually long sleeve rash vest tops and shorts though rather than string bikini types.

I remember this at school. Was not just unfair, it resulted in the boys making endless stupid comments about us needing ... well you can imagine. One girl took it upon herself to tell them "if we had them, YOU wouldn't be here!".

Me too. My DD started wearing a bikini at 14/15. She never asked if she could have one when she was little so I escaped having to make a decision about it.

At school, the boys all wear their swim trunks to school on swim days so ease. The girls can't do that, because they're not allowed to wear bikini's and it too hard to get their whole swimsuit off to wee. Unfair if you ask me.
My DD always wore shorts and a rash vest for school swimming.
In the dark ages when I was at school we wore our regulation one pieces rolled down to waist level under our uniforms or some girls just did the pull the gusset to the side thing.

I wore bikinis when I was a little girl. Don't see the problem.

My DD had two piece bathing suits as a kiddo. The top wasn't two triangles but more of a strapless crop top type style. Cute.

I have pictures of me as a small child in the 1970s wearing a bikini. It’s not a new thing.

I think the poster means why would pre-pubescent kids wear a bikini top, before they have breasts? She’s not worried about them running around in bottoms. (Obviously a nine year old might be in early adolescence so the point might not apply).

However since you mention it I do find it a little odd as well that a nine old wants to show off her abs. Being proud of being strong is great, but I don’t think it’s ideal to be so conscious of your body’s appearance or to want others to be conscious of it, at that age - and that applies to whether it’s about sexuality directly or about being ripped.

Completely agree with this.

My first thought is that little girls shouldn’t be wearing bikinis as they indicate that the girls nipples shouldn’t be seen, which in effect is sexualising them, but actually swimming costumes do exactly the same.

Bikinis and swimsuits are both designed to hide nipples as society believes nipples shouldn’t be seen on a girl’s body, yet nipples are fine to be seen on a boy’s body.

It’s all about early sexualisation.

Well although I would normally say that we should do whatever "we" want and men should be dealt with if they interfere, IN THIS CASE I would err on the side of caution and suggest that "girls" should not wear bikinis on the beach or at pools. The risk is too high.

I know that when I've worn a bikini (I'm 20) boys' and men's eyes virtually pop out of their faces! So goodness knows how they'd react to someone younger.

For me it's all about comfort practicality and fuller coverage in the sun.

Why must they make girls and women's clothes tighter and less fabric and on the whole less practical? (No pockets) that's in general not just swimwear.

Regardless of comfort bikinis and bra/knickers are seen in society as sexualised clothing. So why would we not feel odd about children wearing them.

Me too. I think it’s a logical position!

I think it’s odd (because it implies pre-pubescent girls have breasts when they don’t, for those asking), however I can remember my US cousins wearing them in the 70s, so it’s not new. I’m less bothered if it’s just shaped like a crop top.. still a bit odd though.

For some reason I'm more uncomfortable with little girls wearing bikinis than I am them running around topless with knickers on.
Ones almost sexualising and the other is childhood innocence.