After going shopping today to wonder what the world is coming to??

[TheLadyEvenstar]

Ok have been out shopping today and on my travels I saw...

a young girl who was approx 10 yrs old in a pair of very skimpy shorts, string vest with nothing under and heels. She was applying lipstick as she walked along and her mum said "Oh darling don't put anymore on, mummy told you you are beautiful without so much on" errrrrrrrrr go and dress her fgs!!!

I then walked into a shop and saw....

padded bras in 28aaa WHY????????

I also saw a few young girls who I would guess were about 12-14 (all in uniform) in a fast food shop discussing how one of them had lost her virginity and was hoping she was pregnant!!!!

these were just 3 things i saw today there were more....maybe i am getting old but hell i know i wasn't like this at the same age.

I walked out of my daughters nursery this morning and watched someone being assaulted. Can I move to where you live please????

I agree tho world has gone nuts

KitKat you wouldn't want to live where I do....although I can honestly say I have never seen anyone being assaulted. Mind you today I saw 4 burly police officers grab and manhandle a young lad...he was cycling along the pavement and their car almost mounted the pavement..I was pushing ds2 in his pram and yelled "watch what you fucking doing you twats" then the officers got out of the unmarked car OOPPSS

OP - not when I grew up, although maybe there now as when I visit the parents its definately a case of lock the doors..

TheLadyEvenstar - sounds curiously like something I did today... sorry male appears to be an innocent but had actually just done * (sorry had to edit but lets put it this way he was not very nice, even if he was little, what did he have in his inside pocket??)

it is sad how quick they grow up...and how sexualised children/young pre teens are...

I am kinda glad I have all boys, whilst my now nearly 13 year old has become vain, and styles his hair and wears skinny jeans and lots of accessories like sweatbands and has let his female friends loose with make up on him....I love that he feels comfortable enough to express himself in his fashion...

but it scares me when he talks about girlfriends....and stuff...

Imsotall, you weren't driving the car were you lol!!!

i get really depressed by how young girls dress and don't understand why their parents allow it.

Not allowed to drive.... mounted too many kurbs!!!!!!!!
Have to say I regularly shout at drivers for going too fast when Im pushing DS in his stroller...

Imso, i didn't realise they were police when i yelled at them! one did apologise though.

The premature sexualisation of young girls depresses me too, especially as I have 2 girls. I've already heard a mum whose little girl is in dd1 (5)'s class lamenting about her dd worrying that she is fat, and refusing to eat her dinner

I was a "late developer"- at 13 I was running about the woods playing at Hide and seek and Indiana jones I was too shy to talk to boys, despite having secret crushes that I detailed in my diary (cringe), never mind be thinking about having sex with them!

to me, childhood is so short compared to adulthood. I wish wish wish that kids could see that and not be in such a damn hurry

Jooly snap I was the same.

Me too... I had a Cindy doll and nothing else mattered at 16... (dont argue saying Barbie is better!!!! )

TheLady - Never apologise!!!

Imso, no he apologised i was still frothing calmly explaining that it was my son in the pram not a statistic

actually BARBIE was better!

NOOOOOO!!!!!

Me thinks Cindy may be been less expensive for my poor poor parents...

Imsotall... call yourself a SINDY fan?!?!

Not Cindy...

Actually action man was better than both

It's not just the clothes, the language of teens - and tweens come to that - appals me.

Every time I get the bus back from town I'm shocked by the way they speak to each other - not in anger just normal conversation, the C word - which I have never even used myself - being in frequent use, as well as god knows how many other swear words, plus all the fake 'ghetto gangsta' language which makes me laugh given we live in the leafy suburbs

choc, mine said 'cindy' on it... are you telling me my poor, poor parents got me a fake from Wembley stadium market...

never mind Barbie...it was the blond/tanned Ken I wanted fancied

Sindy was definitely superior- she was the English Rose to Barbie's trailer-park American, so there! I actually remember having a Country Club Sindy- with a tweed suit!! That's class that is!!

Exactly... Class

back to the original point what is it about some parents who want their little girls to look like little tarts women

maybe they are fulfilling their own dreams...not realising that is what they are projecting....maybe it is the norm in their circles

Mother of a boy... so hopefully not too much to worry about..

Although driving home from work today I did see the length of the girls skirts (only one I saw wearing trousers) were teeny tiny..

If I had got home wearing a belt for a skirt I would have known about it... (35 so not tooo old)

Fair, how sad! I have lived in and around the same area all my life and my parents would have gone Mental if i had even attempted to wear some of the clothes around today at that age, I remember my dad moaning about a dress my sister wore when she was 21 she went upstairs and changed...well she put a jacket over it lol so it looked different.