Would you find this odd to say to a 6yo?

[Goldsnow]

A 6 year old female child in her house with her family (twin brother, mum and dad). The daughter is playing wearing her pants (joggers) with no vest or top on. The father then tells her to put a top on as she should not be running around like that. The house was warm so it wasn't that. It was because she is female that is the reason he was telling her she shouldn't do that and to put a top or vest on.

Would you find this strange for a man/father to say to a 6 year old or not? I would have thought a little child of that age is fine in her own home without wearing a top and I wouldn't have given it a second thought. But maybe that is just me.

Not when that opinion has potential to shape 6 year old child's views about their body in a negative or harmful way.

What exactly is the issue with a 6 year old having no top on in the comfort of her own home with just her family around?

I can't fathom why you are defending this man's "right" to be a sexist twat to his 6 year old child, rather than her right not to be objectified & shamed for the exact same behaviour as her brother.

Sorry but yes he was perfectly fine to tell her to put on a top.. I just don't know why people look for problems where there need not be any. Growing up with both sisters and brothers my parents didn't want us to randomly be naked during the day for no apparent reason than just being naked. She should have put on a top and there's no need for dissertations about sexualising kids.

Nope. The 6 yr old equivalent to a brother having his penis out is her running around with her knickers off. She wasn't. She had her top off. And as she is SIX YEARS OLD and doesn't have breasts to be sexualised, then yes it's a totally odd, patriarchal, slut shaming bull comment to make.

So can anyone explain what the issue is with a 6 year old girl running around with no top on in front of her own family?

Without reference to it being related to modesty reasons, cos, you know, that would be sexualising a childs body in front of their own family and of course no one would want to do that.

It's extremely weird to say to a 6 year old or either sex, unless it was freezing cold and it was said in a 'put a jumper on it's too cold' kind of way but sounds like it wasn't said like that and what your husband said would make me feel very uneasy about they way he was thinking about her.

If it's both genders, maybe it just shows you're an extreme prude uncomfortable with nudity in general.

But the fact that the father makes his 6 year old daughter put on a top around him but lets his boys run around naked... It means he sees boobs when he looks at his 6 year old daughter's flat chest! And he's also potentially uncomfortable with how that makes him feel.

It's on a grown man to control his own thoughts and feelings, and let his daughter enjoy her childhood as she is before she hits puberty! I can only imagine how he's going to control her dressing (normal clothes too tight as it makes me vaguely think of your boobs, etc) when she matures.