Do you let your preteen daughter wear "jeggings"?

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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.

I don't think ironic means what you think it means.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

You are just plain ridiculous. How do you look in the mirror and maintain a straight face?

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Leggings as pants is pretty much all my 15 year old wears. OMG call the cops!! She's being sexualized!

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Anonymous wrote:Leggings as pants is pretty much all my 15 year old wears. OMG call the cops!! She's being sexualized!

You must be a hussy.

(I must also be a hussy.)

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Anonymous wrote:I am more freaked out that you referred to you husband on a forum, to adults, ad "daddy" than I am by jeggings.

I teach my daughters about dressing for their body types, buying quality over cheap material, and dressing for the occasion. If jeggings fit those, fine.

At least I'm not the only one thinking this

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Good luck keeping your teen out of tight pants! However, mine prefer skinny to jeggings b/c jeggings tend to roll up around the waist and then fall down, so they are stuck pulling them up all day. There is a reason they are always on sale. At my teens HS, every girl looks just like the picture (more or less)

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Anonymous wrote:Good luck keeping your teen out of tight pants! However, mine prefer skinny to jeggings b/c jeggings tend to roll up around the waist and then fall down, so they are stuck pulling them up all day. There is a reason they are always on sale. At my teens HS, every girl looks just like the picture (more or less)

Tell us, from your angle, what's happening in the boy department for HS girls.

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Lmao, wearing jeggings makes you look like a slut? I never understood the train of thought that what you wear reflects your sexual history.

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My 6yo kindergartner is wearing her first pair of jeggings today, which her grandmother gave her for her bday in Nov. I actually think these little bodies are the best for wearing jeggings. They stay up on her and don't fall down, like most pants do, b/c she is so tiny. It doesn't look sexual in the LEAST. It just looks like an appropriate pair of pants for a small child. Once you get in the pre-teen years, NOW you must stop wearing jeggings. IMHO.

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Anonymous wrote:Leggings aren't pants. My 12 yr old wears them with a long sweater or under a dress but not by themselves with a short top. That would be 1) not in style, b) ridiculous looking, and c) not acceptable in this house.

It depends upon what size your kid is. My tiny Asian 6yo can barely find any pants that don't fall off her. Jeggings and leggings are just about the only things that sty up on her, don't end up untucked two seconds after she puts them on, and she can get through the school day without looking like a holy mess when I finally pick her up b/c, finally, we have a pair of bottoms that STAY UP on her. And really, believe you me, it looks just about as far from sexual as it's possible to get. Who sexualizes a young child, who's rearing Carter's jeggings and a matching top?!!? For REAL, PEOPLE!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Good luck keeping your teen out of tight pants! However, mine prefer skinny to jeggings b/c jeggings tend to roll up around the waist and then fall down, so they are stuck pulling them up all day. There is a reason they are always on sale. At my teens HS, every girl looks just like the picture (more or less)

Tell us, from your angle, what's happening in the boy department for HS girls.

I guess I am thankful they are not wearing yoga pants. And from my viewpoint, the boys PARENTS are very protective of their sons; ie they do not want them to be teen dads.

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Even pants from Loft are skin tight. Really worse than jeans because they are thinner fabric.

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The decency aspect depends on your daughter's build. My daughter is tall and stick thin, jeggings are a good option because they dont fall down. She has no curves to speak of and the jeggings look more like pants than tights. Now on a thicker girl the same pants are not flattering and accentuate curves and fat these girls need to carefully consider the tops they wear with the jeggings. Also if there are no pockets on the back it is always best to wear a longer shirt. Alot of the new legging and jeggings have pockets and then a shorter shirt (on the right frame) is OK.

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Anonymous wrote:The decency aspect depends on your daughter's build. My daughter is tall and stick thin, jeggings are a good option because they dont fall down. She has no curves to speak of and the jeggings look more like pants than tights. Now on a thicker girl the same pants are not flattering and accentuate curves and fat these girls need to carefully consider the tops they wear with the jeggings. Also if there are no pockets on the back it is always best to wear a longer shirt. Alot of the new legging and jeggings have pockets and then a shorter shirt (on the right frame) is OK.

Ah, it's the old "it's not the clothes that are slutty, it's the body that wears the clothes" argument.

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Of course it isn't sexual. How you present yourself to the world is not just about sex. A 9 yr old going out in nothing but her underwear is still not sexual but by my standards not appropriate. Same with leggings or tights (as pants). If your child wants to go out in tights or not wearing pants and you think that is a great way for her to present herself to the world and the people in it - then go for it. I tell my kids that the outline of your genitals is not something to share with the world - not because it is sexual, it is just private. So no ass cracks, no camel toes, no clothes that show the outline of the penis. Since we have raised the kids with an understanding that the clothes you wear and how you carry / dress yourself does send a message, they would actually be pretty mortified if their penis, ass crack or vulva were visible to others. They have no desire to wear skin tight clothes or to go out without pants and they aren't thinking sexual at all.