Pretty Little Princess
It doesn’t take long for parents to want to make their children look cute or handsome. Whole industries have revolved around princess themes for girls, and beauty pageants now extend all the way down to the youngest of girls.
It’s definitely more of an obsession for the parents than the kids—usually meaning that the kids have more stress.
Everyone wants to show off how beautiful their son or daughter is. In your parents eyes, you were the cutest thing.
The problem is that, for the most part, cute becomes making them look grown up—or sexy.
They put them in dresses that expose the skin, they put them in makeup, and they teach them at a young age that they have to fit a certain standard of beauty. We all know of the extremes, but there are many that are not extreme that are teaching their young boys and girls the same message.
Little girls are cute when they look like this, they instruct their boys and girls.
And I’m not saying that it’s wrong to dress up, to imagine yourself as a princess, or any of that. What I’m saying is that we need to make sure that reinforce modesty as something that’s key even when we’re playing. That the inner person is the one that we deem important, not the outer.
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It’s kinda fun that my parents think I’m the cutest… heck, even my brother can’t compete. (Okay, just kidding, my brother’s adorable!)
Halloween’s always a trying time for kids, esp teens, to stay modest. But there are definately modest options out there. We just need to take that extra time and effort to find them.
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Very very true. Good post, Min!
People are always on my about how I never curl my little girl’s hair. She’s 2 years old! She has the rest of her life to damage her hair cuticle with a curling iron. Why should I start now, especially when she wouldn’t sit still long enough for me to curl one section?
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A few months ago we went to an outdoor play of Beauty and The Beast. There was a litte girl wearing a cute pink t-shirt under what would have been a slightly reveling Belle costume. I was very happy to see parents letting their daughter play dress up, but not sacrifice modesty to do so.
Our daughter was just born and we’ve already had to start the battle. We’ve been given several onesies that say things like “cutie” or “daddy’s wrapped around my little finger” ect. While we politely accept these, my daughter will never wear them. I just don’t think that these are healthy messages to send little girls.
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i think that “daddy is wrapped around my little finger” is nothing to get upset or offended about. people take things a little too seriously nowadays. i believe forcing your child to be in pagents is rediculous but if the child wants to participate in one to try it out you should let them some kids get confidence out of it and it can also help them get over shyness and insecurities if it’s the pagent is run with an “everyones a winner” attitude.