For thinking that "Blinged up Babies' is so wrong!!!

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Has anyone else seen it in This Morning?

Two mothers talking about their Blinged up children/babies and explaining how their children wear designer clothes, have fake tans, wear perfume and prefer to have handbags and shoes over toys.

Apparently it's a waste of a girl not to dress her up

The full documentary is on TV tonight and although part of me wants to watch it the other part of me can't bear the thought of seeing young babies and young girls being dressed and treated like the mother's fashion accessory

I too find it vile and offensive. Girls being objectified and measured in terms of looks and clothes. How far have we really come?

After an 8 year gap from ds, I had dd, am not particularly girly myself but expected I would dress dd head to toe in pink! 4 years on and she's at her happiest in her Barcelona or Everton football kit:)

She will wear a dress now and again but hates headbands etc.

I will probably watch the programme out of curiosity too.
Often these babies are an extension of the mum and are merely another accessory.

And yes, how do they afford it all? On the last episode last year, most of the mums were unemployed.

Yanbu, it is vile and I'd say it could be quite mentally abusive towards the children if they're being pressured and forced to conform with these extremes. I suspect they could end up with serious self image problems.

I think it is a very sad sign of a misogynistic parent. But, I'm strongly opinionated like that. I think ear piercing under teenage years is irresponsible and getting on for some form of mutilation.

Is this real?

What on earth is this.

It's all very time consuming putting those massive dresses on.

its horrible. women who dress their babies like this seem to think they are still playing dollies. Come to think of it I didnt dress my dolls like this and dont know anyone who did. who knows what goes on in their heads.

Earring scene was awful, poor baby. Also why on earth would you take your child to a playground to tell them off for playing and getting a scuff on their shoes? I much prefer my two to be getting covered in mud and having fun rather than looking perfect. It's not reasonable to expect perfection from children

I agree, it's very poor parenting, it's giving their girls the wrong messages, and not valuing themselves for who they are. Says it all when one of the mums said her dd wanted to be a Police woman, but worries hw she will cope with the 'dowdy' uniform. Lights are on but nobody is home, so rings to mind with these mothers.

Surely it's a choking hazard? All the little bits and pieces?

I lasted 4mins into the programme before losing the will to live. Awful awful awful. I have actually gagged on my judgey pants.

Just watching it now, those parent's have serious issues, the two blonde mums sound like they had very difficult childhoods, their own self esteem seems so tied up with their own appearances and by extension those of their children. It's all very sad.

It's awful. I think it's a shame the boys can wear practice clothes whereas the girls are in these huge dresses that are so awkward to play in.

I'm surprised the blonde mum breast fed. That'll show me! These programmes do encourage you to make snap judgements based on a few carefully selected scenes.

Mother who didn't approve of her daughter getting scuffs on her trainers is tiresome.

The 'Chanel' thing is very strange, they obviously aren't Chanel, I don't get designer fakes like this.

Calling a young child, sexy lady . My judgy pants are strangling me.

The mum Candy saying she's not a pushy mum after bribing her unwilling daughter through a photo shoot..

I haven't watched it. I am assuming the boys weren't involved in this?

What did the other halves think? Or were they not involved either?

It was all single mums

I wonder if there are couples who do this but didn't want to get involved or that being a single mum has affected their views in some way?

No issues going on at all,are there?

Aarrgh! When does something like this actually border on mistreatment/abuse? Dousing very young children in a load of unnecessary cosmetics, not allowing child to play on playground and, above all, spouting sexist shit, ffs!!!!

Just saw the earring scenes.. wtf.

I actually felt like the very slim blonde mum was likeable, but had questionable views when it came to her daughter. It sort if made a weird sense to me though when she said she liked to dress them up because it helped her to cope with all the little challenges of her day (I'm paraphrasing).

The others were all awful though. Poor little girls don't stand a chance do they? I suppose they'll turn out just the same and will treat heir own daughters the same and so on and so on.