DD, just 6, comes home from first day in Y1 with lovely colouring-in of..

[LindsayWagner]

.. two photcopied Bratz dolls illustrations. She has labouriously felt-tipped their trout pouts, stripper heels, crop tops and fishnets. Oh, and the crucifix that one has draped around her cheekily out-thrust hips.

Titty colouring!

Oooh...looks like rain! Best get "My First Book of Hardcore Colouring" out of the activity box!

Hully and Mumbling, that's a second lot of tea on my keyboard there

Seriously? this is a massive deal to you...I don't really think it will damage your DD.

Okay MrJelly. That's that settled then.

Yes mumbling it is settled....what a pathetic thing to worry about, it's just a picture.

I think that 'wet play'activity is code for the teacher not being in charge,but dinner ladies.

page 3 is just a picture too.

porn films are just titty colouring moving pictures

Well if my DD comes home from school with "just a picture" of a throbbing penis squirting jism into someone's face, should I treat it as a matter of concern? Where's the line?

As a teacher I am far more concerned about the casual acceptance that children won't be doing anything on the first day of school. What a way to set the tone for the year! As for bratz... Think it's a pretty minor problem on the grand scale of issues teachers deal with everyday. Just chuck it away and move on.

I think those who say 'it didn't do my dds any harm' are in as invidious position as those who worry it will. None of us know, we've just got to make a decision based on what we see of the world around us and how it works.

I'm not saying that dd will grow up to be a pole-dancer because of colouring-in; I am saying that the school's (in dd's eyes) endorsement of this freakazoid version of what it is to be 'a grown up woman', and the importance ascribed in that version to being 'sexy' above any other attribute, will be added to the multiple and various pressures on her to conform to a TOTALLY BULLSHIT idea of 'femininity'; I'd rather protect her from that if I can, until she has the capacity to decode it for herself.

Mr Jelly at 'it's just a picture'. Well yes, looked at in a particular way, with eyes closed and that. Someone has always made choices about what kind of picture/film/novel/headline/'fact' they produce, and they've made those choices for a reason.

I did a momentary snerk at 'wet play' in the context of Bratz. But that's the problem, innit? Those dolls and 'wet play' don't sit right.

The Bratz film though is OK. Is there a difference between the film and the pictures - which I presume are cartoon?

Not sure it would have bothered me though.

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"BelleEnd Wed 07-Sep-11 14:15:20

I don't like Ben 10 tbh, especially since I read on here that the word "slut" was used in the cartoon. But I would be too much of a chicken shit to complain, and anyway, it's everywhere. "

I was intrigued/shocked by this and decided to look it up... NEVER Google "Ben 10 slut"! I was not aware that cartoon porn existed, until now. :(

WAs it raining at lunchtime? Could it have been given to her by the dinner ladies and done at wet play?

I'd be a bit surprised that a school would be handing out Bratz pictures to colour in, but I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it, personally.

TBH I think you are being very precious. At that age they just like the look of things and usually they choose on easiness or difficulty. They encourage them to choose what interests them to ensure they are enthusiastic and it may well have been to observe what sort of hand control they have i.e. colour neatly etc and to ease them in gently. I don't think I would be jumping up and down about it Mine came home (also yr1) with a picture she had drawn of 'the zoo' which included a 1cm tiny giraffe and the same size stick lion except the mane on an A4 bit of paper! Colouring would have been more enjoyable for dd lol.

Do you have any pals on the PTA? That's what I'd do - tell one of them and then get them to raise it in a 'Some parents have mentioned to me...' sort of a way.

You avoid looking like a frothing loon, and all your fellow parents become objects of narrow-eyed suspicion from the teech.

As for removable feet, presumably so they can change to flats when they slip a disc in their 6" louboutins playing football whilst heavily pregnant?

lol lifechanger as dd also passed comment on the poor standard of the colouring pencils and said 'they were mainly grey' and the others weren't very good

Can't speak for everyone Hully but I would only wear heels/short skirts etc on a night out. I do it because I'm proud of my figure and like to show it off. I would feel underdressed to wear stuff like that in the daytime though and heels would be impractical.
OP unless you are going to ban television/magazines/all looking at other people you are not going to shield your child from the fact that the ideal for adults of both sexes (although undoubtedly seen as more important for women) is to be slim, attractive and sexy.
If you complain about this op not only will you be the laughing stock of the staffroom you will also get yourself a reputation as a complainer in the first week of school. You never know when you will have a serious complaint - do you want to be taken seriously? You will also never be away from the school complaining if you want to micromanage your dd's time at school to this extent. They might have Disney films on next wet playtime for example.

God forbid Disney films Tarzan half naked, Cinderella in after midnight, Pinochio being a liar, Killing in the Lion King, snow white living with 7 men lol........that would be a complete scandal of school corruption!!!

Whoever said that the images don't matter and that the children just like colouring in is misguided. Perhaps next wet play they could colour in swastikas? After all it's just a shape. No harm done.

BURN THE BRATZ - please don't give them to charity and prolong their life!