Do you let your preteen daughter wear "jeggings"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is very thin and looks just fine in jeggings.

If you're chunky or otherwise curvy, they'll look indecent. No problem: There are many other pants style to flatter girls who are not stick-thin.

If you think your child looks "just fine" in her tight(?) pants, why are you here defending yourself? Just keep letting her do grown-up stuff, and see where she is with that in 5-10 years. If you're so sure that you're doing the right thing now, then she'll be off in college, self-deciplined enough to tend to her studies, dress appropriately, eat decently, and drink responsibly(?). Because what you're doing now is laying the groundwork for all that will follow. Best wishes.

So let me get this straight. If I let my child wear leggings as a preteen, she will is doomed 5-10 years from now...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 8 and 11 year old DDs wear them. That's what is for sale where we shop. They are both very thin and in amazing shape (both competitive athletes). I would rather jeggings or skinny jeans than clothes that hang off of them. With more traditional pants they end up with "bubble butt" because to get the length they need we have to get pants that are way too big in the waist and seat.

You sound bizarrely and unhealthily overinvested in your daughters' sports performance and "skinniness". Yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm fascinated. Someone who has never met my daughter or us knows what is going on behind the scenes, and his truth is so transparent some stranger on the internet also knows so much better than every other person who has actually met my daughter what is going on with her. How grateful I am for DCUM! How lost I would be as a parent without it!

Those things in the pic are not jeggings. I would never let my daughter wear those in part because that color wash went out of style about 10 years ago. Her school dress code doesn't allow jeans, for one thing. She tends to wear things like Joe's jeggings in black. The school rule is that if it has a zipper they are pants and not leggings and are ok. She doesn't wear jeans outside of school - no interest. She does like 7 for all Mankind colored denim, so I get her the skinny jean version of those.

Next time she is polishing off an entire steak and salad I'll be sure to ask her if she is anorexic, though.

OMG lady, you sound completely unhinged and like you really really need to get a hobby other than you children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is very thin and looks just fine in jeggings.

If you're chunky or otherwise curvy, they'll look indecent. No problem: There are many other pants style to flatter girls who are not stick-thin.

If you think your child looks "just fine" in her tight(?) pants, why are you here defending yourself? Just keep letting her do grown-up stuff, and see where she is with that in 5-10 years. If you're so sure that you're doing the right thing now, then she'll be off in college, self-deciplined enough to tend to her studies, dress appropriately, eat decently, and drink responsibly(?). Because what you're doing now is laying the groundwork for all that will follow. Best wishes.

So let me get this straight. If I let my child wear leggings as a preteen, she will is doomed 5-10 years from now...?

If you let your child wear leggings (and jeggings) AS PANTS as a preteen, she will be doomed 5-10 years from now. Yup. Who knew that pants had so much power?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm fascinated. Someone who has never met my daughter or us knows what is going on behind the scenes, and his truth is so transparent some stranger on the internet also knows so much better than every other person who has actually met my daughter what is going on with her. How grateful I am for DCUM! How lost I would be as a parent without it!

Those things in the pic are not jeggings. I would never let my daughter wear those in part because that color wash went out of style about 10 years ago. Her school dress code doesn't allow jeans, for one thing. She tends to wear things like Joe's jeggings in black. The school rule is that if it has a zipper they are pants and not leggings and are ok. She doesn't wear jeans outside of school - no interest. She does like 7 for all Mankind colored denim, so I get her the skinny jean version of those.

Next time she is polishing off an entire steak and salad I'll be sure to ask her if she is anorexic, though.

OMG lady, you sound completely unhinged and like you really really need to get a hobby other than you children.

+1. What is with identifying the designer denim brands that your child wears? Good grief, some kind of values are you imparting. Sick, sick, sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 and 11 year old DDs wear them. That's what is for sale where we shop. They are both very thin and in amazing shape (both competitive athletes). I would rather jeggings or skinny jeans than clothes that hang off of them. With more traditional pants they end up with "bubble butt" because to get the length they need we have to get pants that are way too big in the waist and seat.

You sound bizarrely and unhealthily overinvested in your daughters' sports performance and "skinniness". Yuck.

+1, too much, esp as the kids are only 8 and 11 and are 'competitive athletes' and in 'amazing shape''. Who describes their kids this way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8 and 11 year old DDs wear them. That's what is for sale where we shop. They are both very thin and in amazing shape (both competitive athletes). I would rather jeggings or skinny jeans than clothes that hang off of them. With more traditional pants they end up with "bubble butt" because to get the length they need we have to get pants that are way too big in the waist and seat.

You sound bizarrely and unhealthily overinvested in your daughters' sports performance and "skinniness". Yuck.

+1, too much, esp as the kids are only 8 and 11 and are 'competitive athletes' and in 'amazing shape''. Who describes their kids this way?

Insecure parents with misplaced values, who have abdicated their parenting responsibilities.

[Anonymous]

Wow, reading you women not only be mean to each other but mean about little girls.

American women are terrible.

And jeggings are ugly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm fascinated. Someone who has never met my daughter or us knows what is going on behind the scenes, and his truth is so transparent some stranger on the internet also knows so much better than every other person who has actually met my daughter what is going on with her. How grateful I am for DCUM! How lost I would be as a parent without it!

Those things in the pic are not jeggings. I would never let my daughter wear those in part because that color wash went out of style about 10 years ago. Her school dress code doesn't allow jeans, for one thing. She tends to wear things like Joe's jeggings in black. The school rule is that if it has a zipper they are pants and not leggings and are ok. She doesn't wear jeans outside of school - no interest. She does like 7 for all Mankind colored denim, so I get her the skinny jean version of those.

Next time she is polishing off an entire steak and salad I'll be sure to ask her if she is anorexic, though.

OMG lady, you sound completely unhinged and like you really really need to get a hobby other than you children.

+1. What is with identifying the designer denim brands that your child wears? Good grief, some kind of values are you imparting. Sick, sick, sick.

Jon Benet's mother sounded the same way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:21:41, WTF does that have to do with jeggings? You are very anti-athlete. My older daughter gets straight As so I'm not too worried about cheating, partying, etc. DH was a nationally ranked HS athlete (in the top 5), so we're not exactly naive about how this works. There is a difference between a true athlete and a jock who does sports. My daughters are athletes. DH still competes in the masters division of his sport.

You sound like the most annoying person I have read on DCUM in a while and that is saying a whole lot!

[Anonymous]

Lots of dc area parents are obsessive about their kid's supposed accomplishments, rather than the actual child and who that child really is. For them, the mental health issues come on as a big surprise out of nowhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I'm fascinated. Someone who has never met my daughter or us knows what is going on behind the scenes, and his truth is so transparent some stranger on the internet also knows so much better than every other person who has actually met my daughter what is going on with her. How grateful I am for DCUM! How lost I would be as a parent without it!

Those things in the pic are not jeggings. I would never let my daughter wear those in part because that color wash went out of style about 10 years ago. Her school dress code doesn't allow jeans, for one thing. She tends to wear things like Joe's jeggings in black. The school rule is that if it has a zipper they are pants and not leggings and are ok. She doesn't wear jeans outside of school - no interest. She does like 7 for all Mankind colored denim, so I get her the skinny jean version of those.

Next time she is polishing off an entire steak and salad I'll be sure to ask her if she is anorexic, though.

OMG lady, you sound completely unhinged and like you really really need to get a hobby other than you children.

+1. What is with identifying the designer denim brands that your child wears? Good grief, some kind of values are you imparting. Sick, sick, sick.

Jon Benet's mother sounded the same way.

Exactly. How ironic.

[Anonymous]

My 7 and 11 year old daughters only wear jeggings/leggings as tights under tunics or skirts. No sense getting them comfortable with clothing that I wouldn't want them to wear as teenagers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 7 and 11 year old daughters only wear jeggings/leggings as tights under tunics or skirts. No sense getting them comfortable with clothing that I wouldn't want them to wear as teenagers.

Wise parenting. Thinking ahead is a good thing here.

[Anonymous]

Go ahead and sexualize your baby daughters and teens. They'll be on here eventually crying about having 3 kids and no respect from their husbands wondering what they did wrong about not marrying well.

Hussifying is popular with hussy mothers.

BTW, last night I saw these leggings being shown on HSN, all sizes, some looked liked skin tight jeans.

Lots of big butts and camel toe.