AIBU to think this magazine cover is a bit too grown-up for a little girl?

[allamaqueen]

I imagine I will get a mix of responses, but it might be an interesting thread.

Saw this magazine (first picture) when I was in the supermarket today and did a double-take, as I initially thought the model was a grown woman. The posing and styling seems very mature, she is wearing lipstick and has a "model" expression. Something about it didn't sit well with me.

Also, found the second pic on Google and the girl isn't even wearing trousers?

Expect I will get a lot of "YABU, it's a child, you're sick in the head" but it just seems too grown-up to me.

surely the pink one has a strapline 'for modern mothers' - so it's a parenting mag, not a kids comic, isn't it?

Well I agree the children on the covers are dressed in a more adult style and the cover is too grown up for my liking.

A lot of make up used as well, considering they are young children what does that teach them apart from you are a girl and need make up to be pretty

I agree. It's just slightly "off".

www.smallishmagazine.com/

zee I mean the styling of the girl is inappropriate for a magazine cover, not that it was inappropriate for kids to read.

They're definitely child 'models' rather than children. I prefer to see pictures of children who haven't clearly spent time in hair and make-up. But I sense this magazine is not for me.

I find those images a bit disturbing too, I think it is because they are depicted as miniature adults rather than children.

TBF the whole magazine seems pretty dire.

Is it a national title? It's VERY nappy valley looking.

she isn't wearing trousers, because shes wearing a dress in the second one.

She's fully clothed from the neck down and wearing glasses. I don't see garish make-up either. I'm more bothered about Katie Price constantly sexualising Princess.

I am baffled by this magazine, which I'd never heard of. It seems to be about childhood and parenting, but for adults, however - to me - it's not clear from the cover.

I think all of the poses and facial expressions of the models on the two covers are too adult. I've got no issue with the clothes (although personally I'm not a fan of the pink glasses on the little blonde girl - they don't look like they are her actual glasses or feasibly for reading / seeing better but just a fashion accessory that seems to show a desire to make her look like an older woman. They're just a bit out of place, to me).

It's for the bored, rich yummy mummy brigade. Bag ideas include Gucci rocket bag for £560.

My eldest granddaughter did some modelling work for Disney and I was there as chaperone. When told she was expected in hair and makeup I was horrified. The make up artist misted her hair with water and brushed it lightly then dusted the tiniest amount of face powder to take off the shine leaving one little girl feeling like a million dollars.

Why would you be horrified at the thought of your dd having hair and make up done on a modelling shoot? It would be expected rather than a horrific shock.

The mag is for parents not kids.

They look similar to the children on American TV channels eg Disney; Nick. It's not a natural look but it's so stylised that I don't think they're aiming for a real representation of children.

I get where you're coming from. And that "dress" on the blue cover is a bit on the skimpy side, it does rather look like a shirt with no skirt/trousers/shorts under it!

Yes, agree with the "making the children look like mini-adults" feeling, not something that I really like.

Not a magazine I'd be likely to buy either.

If you look at the clothes featured inside the fashion section, they are all for mini adults. Primarni isn't getting a look in.

I saw the magazine but didn't really notice the cover that much other than that it was probably aimed at the readers of Junior magazine which always seemed to have very over-dressed children on it.

I don't like those at all. The 'dress' the girl in the blue one is wearing is more of a shirt/blouse/smock, reminiscent of that very common styling look where a woman wears what looks like a man's shirt with nothing else, the implication being that it's the morning after.

Irritating and too ubiquitous in adult mags/images; downright inappropriate on a child.

Anyone remember this programme on tv. It didn't last long but this imo is where the damage was done.

It's all just so wrong.

Ugh. Horrid.

I see two covers of a fashion and lifestyle magazine aimed at women with young kids, featuring young kids on the front

No,they don't look anything like adults to me.

I dont like that at all especially the girl in the shirt/dress in the 2nd picture. A bit too close to sexualised to me

how is she sexualised? because you can see her thighs?