What did you think of the recent statement made by David Cameron regarding young girls clothing??

[Helenemjay]

It was David Cameron wasnt it? i have been talking to some friends about his 'creepy and wrong' opinions on some girls clothing, we agreed that to dress a 8/9 year old girl in a really short skirt with padded bra's etc IS really bad, my friend and i saw a very young girl recently with a very very short skirt on with 'im a very bad girl' written accross her chest!! i personally would NEVER dress my daughter in anything like that but then some people might say im being a prude??! what do you think?

what about all these little boys that look like they're heading to the pub?

I was horrified when working in a primary school a couple of years ago when a letter had to be sent home to parents banning thongs as they were upsetting the little boys when the children got changed for PE. How can anyone put a little girl in a thong? DD has just been given a vile t-shirt by the mother in law that says "beauty queen in the making" on it. She's two.....

Did someone say fake tan on 4 yr old boys?
Surely not.
Some people should just stick to playing with dolls instead of having children they think they can turn into dolls.

agree witht he bikinis for little girls. dp's aunt got dd a little green polka dot bikini for the summer (last year) and she COULD NOT understand why i wouldn't let her wear it, much less would she have understood that i actually found it repulsive. i thought fgs she's less than 1!

I am so naive. I get shocked at the idea of thongs for 12 year olds. who ON EARTH puts a primary school age child in a thong. it might be a sweeping generalisation for which i have little evidence but I have a suspicion that the people who buy this stuff also get confused between paediatricians and paedophiles and think there's one on every corner.

But it's not just the clothes manufacturers who are destroying the innocence of childhood. Just look at the music videos played constantly on digital and terrestrial stations. I can't think of a female band/individual singer where she/they are wiggling their back sides in some type of skimpy clothing. Groups which portray these kind of image are then allowed on Saturday morning programmes to promote their song.

God I so agree with DC on this and I go as far as to stare really obviously at the vile little madams when they are with their parents - if they asked me why I would say because you are asking for your kid to be stared at dressed like a tart - would love to say cheap whore but fear I would be punched - but oh no no- one asks me it is almost as though its what they want for their kids!!!

Saw a little girl in Bromley last week with a crop, one shoulder top on, v short shorts and high heeled sandals and the poor kid couldn't have been more than 4!!!

Figroll, my 6 year old nephew has been having his head shaved with bloody tramlines since he was about 4 and I think it looks absolutely vile. They've turned an angelic looking little boy into a mini hooligan. Who do parents think they are impressing by dressing their kids like this . IMO it takes away their individuality, I agree that cropping boys hair is probably easier than dealing with messy hair and knots etc but tramlines, thats just too much.

Mummydoc,
he knows what infections are and he knows how serious they can be.

Little boys or girls in football shirts/kits do not look thuggish, they look like kids who enjoy watching a sport. My son is far from a thug, doesn't play in streets, swear, or be rude to people in the street. he loves watching the football and does have a shirt or 4 lol all the same team i must add. He also loves to gel his hair and make it spikey when we are going out. And although he wears his footy shirts when we go to watch the matches his favourite style of dress are his shirts and jeans teamed with his boots. he has his own way of dressing and he looks a great little man.....

I don't think that little boys in full football kits look like thugs although those kits are generally nasty old polyester which I can't stand. We do have a weakness in the nockers household for putting little boys in mini rugby shirts (ds has a large head and appreciates the button up necklines not being tight to get over the head)

Agree with the the shaved head thingie, just makes sweet little boys look like thugs.

I think it must be a class thing, you don't see many shaven headed boys in the Boden catalogue do you ?

Ds's hair looks like it might wave/curl beautifully if left to grow longer but dh keeps insisting we have it cut(not shaved though). My mum and I want to let it grow and see what it looks like long and wavy/curly whilst he's young enough not to have an opinion himself and whilst his mates at nursery are too young to comment if it looks girly.

I keep forgetting to make an appointment for him to get it trimmed but dh keeps nagging about it .

Hi NN, how are you doing?
Put your foot down with the haircut. I love the 'boden' surfer boy look. Unfortunately my sons hair is really thick and grows up, so it has to be short.

My ds has just got his first football top at 6.5.
Being the only boy in his class not to have one didn't bother him or us either.
M & S do a nice white England top that doesn't look cheap and nasty. So he has that. Nothing to go with it though.
Sorry I went off at a tangent there.

Call me old fashioned but girls in full football kit (toddlers I mean, who are obviously not in the school team!) look awful. Sorry.

There - I knew people wouldn't like me criticising our new religion.