Wibu about DD's skirt?

[KubaLeebre]

DD is 4 and in a small private nursery. Today at drop off, she was showing her key worker her new cotton dress. The key worker said "DD, the first thing we are going to do is put some shorts on you, you like to roll around don't you, and you don't want the boys seeing your knickers!".

I said, "I'm sorry, but I feel that she doesn't need shorts. She's 4, and wearing knickers, so her bits are covered as far as I'm concerned".

Key worker just said "oh, right".

WIBU? I'm annoyed that the worker has been doing this. I don't want my 4 year old DD thinking that she has to "cover up" so that the boys don't see her knickers.

Just looked at the M&S modesty shorts. Very reminiscent of the dark brown school uniform knickers we had to wear at my (all girls) school.

in my day long long time ago.. well early 60's school knickers where navy blue cotton and had elastic to keep them up, if elastic went they would fall down, teacher would give you a pin. but you still had to do PE in them and they did go baggy around the crotch, but still had to do PE with boys in same class don't think any one bothered about it. kids weren't being sexualised at an early age then

NoCureForLove Fri 16-Jun-17 18:53:43
"So do all these pro shorts for girls posters think that people have suddenly realised in the last 5? years or so that girls must wear shorts as their underwear just isn't up to the job of covering their genitalia / bums? That all those of us who grew up in the 20th Century were exposing their genitals willy nilly, that everyone noticed but no one could think of a solution to the problem ... until now? Or perhaps that this is more reflective of the ever increasing and creeping sexualisation of childhood - and shown;t just be accepted..."

This.

Maireadplastic Fri 16-Jun-17 19:44:50
"Do we ever talk of boys and modesty?"

And this

How intently would you have to be staring to actually see that vulva as it flashes past during a cartwheel with ill-fitting knickers? Should we send our little boys in with binoculars to ensure they manage to perform their natural male functions?

Ok.it's all about paedophiles, isn't it? The ones training their binoculars on playgrounds all over the country.

We never have to talk about boys and modesty. They have clothes that are fit for purpose. I have a toddler boy and a baby girl and am quickly realising that if I were to strictly buy boys and girls clothes for my children I would end up buying functional, practical clothes for DS and clothes designed to emphasise my dd's beauty. From babyhood, girls clothes are woefully inadequate

Put the brakes on and REVERSE.