"Sexy" means beautiful and thin according to my 5 year old daughters.

[sandyballs]

. They were dancing to a CD earlier and said "look mummy, we're being sexy" which freaked me out slightly, so I asked them what they thought sexy meant and that was their reply .

I presume they've picked this up from school somehow, but I find it worrying that 5 year old girls already think along these lines.

Jeez, I do feel for you. Makes me so so glad I have boys.

Me too, colditz. Although when I see little mini combats and army jackets on sale in Mothercare it doesn't fill my heart with confidence either. Mad society we live in.

Oh dear.... reminds me of the following conversation with my friend's 5 year old ds:
Him: Kathy, I know what 'sexy' means.
Me: ????
Him: It's when you can see someone's belly button.

there is so much pressure on little girls. My bloody mother has bought a bratz dolls head with makeup for the doll and dd to use, she is only 6 fgs! what happened to princesses and baby dolls?

I worry too. My Dd is 9 and some of the kids in her class look and act about 14. It scares me the idea of kids growing up too early.

Its all bloody Barbies and Bratz fault....

Like colditz i just have boys. I was looking for a top for my 5 yr old goddaughter the other week.Her mum said not to get her anything cropped, sleevelss, boob tube or see through! Could i find anything - no!. I did eventually find something, and just stood shaking my head at all the mums buying the above mentioned garments in size 2-3! Sorry i just don't get it

Depressing isn't it . I go out of my way to avoid Bratz (luckily the girls hate it at as much as me at the moment), and any tarty, revealing clothes/shoes, unsuitable TV etc, yet they are still getting this message from somewhere. Got to be from older girls at school presumably.

I feel the same way about Bratz stuff and my little girl (4) knows I don't like it so doesn't ask to have it, BUT, our friends have told me they have bought her a Bratz styling head for Christmas (She's 4, remember!!) and I am dreading her opening it as I know she'll comment that mummy doesn't like it - how embarrassing! But the dolls are hideous with cosmetic surgery gone wrong faces and dressed like hookers and targeted to little girls which is horrible.

I hate Bratz.

They're ugly.

They're so chavvy, too.

Possibly worse are those 'jagget' dolls - basically baby dolls in mini-kilts with visible knickers etc adorned with safety pins etc. Just hideous! It's sick. I know you can't stop your kids growing up but I do my damndest to let my dd be a child. Did anyone see the repeat of the minipops programme from channel 4 in the eighties? Tiny stage school kids in layers of make -up and big hair and in one case, wearing a lacy nightie - the sickest thing I have ever seen. Even the then producer said in restrospect he didn't know what he was thinking to have anything to do with it. Why can'[t kids just be allowed to be innocent.

they now have bratz babyz - saw them out shopping the other day and there they were, baby bratz in underwear and full make up....I mean FFS how sick is that...I was so decided that I have to write a letter - may sound sad but I feel so strongly about how disturbing I think it is, also feel v

It is so blatant isn't it? I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy a little girl anything like that...you may as well put furry handcuffs from Ann Summers under the tree for them to unwrap.

You are right JJ those Bratz Babies are just so wrong. My Dd was bought one by MIL and its just horrible. I swear its eyes follow me.
Thankfully DD seems to be 9 and not going on 19. For now anyway..

there's so much pressure on both girls and boys for them to consume, consume and consume. It is also funny that it goes hand in hand with sexification (I made up this word!)...

I'm glad DD is too young to be brought anything like that yet, but I have it coming no doubt and God knows what they wil be selling in a few years, bratz babyz lingerie edition????? gggrrrrrr it makes me sooo mad

I have seen cropped tops on a girl aged 5ish on holiday with sexy written on it. I Wanted to slap the parents.

What about all that Playboy stuff being marketed at little girls?

It's obscene.

Don't you'll set me off grrrrr!

I know asabb!!! - this is going to sound harsh and crude but you may as well just advertise your LO to all of the twisted pervs in the area....sorry but It really winds me up - seeing young girls trying to walk in high heels and having lipstick applied bu their mum, makes me shudder

I had the high heels convo with DD9 last night. She was asking when she can wear them I said 25!

I'm really not worried about things like Bratz (although my dd is only 5 months). When I was 9 I was wearing lace gloves, dressing like Madonna (out of my mum's sight) and singing Like A Virgin oblivious to what it meant! It did not turn me into a promiscuous slut, and I liked madonna caus eshe represented power and sexiness. Those Bratz dolls are no better or worse than barbie or sindy dolls and I doubt will have little or no impact on development. I'd be more worried about stick-thin obsessed magazines.

It's natural for little girls (not all of them but some) to want to wear make up and high heels. When you're young you want to be grown up - it's been like that for countless generations.

personally - I find dolls depicting young girls (and babies WTF???) in underwear and make up more disturbing than sindy or barbie - at least they are supposed to be adults, like I said in earlier post, parenting is personal and you have to go with what feels comfortable to you.

Playing dress up is a world away from producing child like dolls with overtly sexual tones...I get that kids dress up, and play doctors and nurses and all of this is natural but taking you child out for the day in make up and clothes with the word 'sexy' emblazened across them?? not for me I'm afraid - the thought of someone looking at my DD and having any sexual thoughts makes me feel sick - the last thing I want to do is encourage it.