In response to the question, I think that our country is entirely too sexualized, but especially the younger generations. As a mother, it is difficult to buy clothes for my child that are not skin tight, too short, or just plain not appropriate for a six year old. Children today are not allowed to be children long if they want to be considered "cool" because all of the messages sent to them on a regular basis about what cool is and what it should look like.
Children are constantly presented with pictures of beautiful girls who wear revealing clothing and who act in a provocative manner. I do not allow my children, who are five and six, to watch anything other than SPROUT or PBS because of the images that the media
portrays as "cool". Movies that are aimed at "tweens" tend to have sexual situations in them that encourage children to view sexual behavior as okay.
There is a child in my fourth grade class who I have had to watch because she comes to school dressed one way and comes into my classroom in something entirely different at least twice a week. I called the mom and we discussed that her daughter said that the boys think she is a nerd so she had been taking her older sister's clothes and makeup trying to make the boys think that she was cool. I could not help but think that when I was in fourth grade, I still thought that boys had cooties and that they were odd just because they were boys; I cannot remember trying to empress anyone at such a young age, but especially not with how I dressed.
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