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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I was shocked to see this old post at the top of the page today!  As an update: we started buying monkey bar buddies shorts to wear under dresses and I realized (first time mom) that it is much more comfortable and appropriate for DD to wear shorts under dresses.  I was just turned off by the way the preschool framed it as a sexual issue.  I was even more turned off when the preschool had a "parade day" and [b]they did my DD's hair with hairspray and put bright blush and hot pink lipstick on her (a 3 yo) and instructed the kids to sashay around the playground in the parade.[/b] We moved her to a montessori shortly thereafter and she's been happy (with underwear covered) ever since.  [/quote]

WHAAAT?  Do you live in pageant country?  In any case I would be livid![/quote]

Well, yes. We moved to Texas.  I think the hairspray thing and kiddie make-up may also be cultural, as I see that look on a lot of little girls here in the Mexican national community.  [/quote]

I knew it! (NP here.)  Frankly, I'm not surprised that the teacher connected the underpants of a 3yo to sexuality and then painted her and instructed her to sashay in a parade.  Wow.  On a different note, I remember wearing skirts and dresses everywhere, because I loved them, and playing kickball and doing cartwheels.  I didn't wear shorts and didn't care who saw my underpants.  I'm not sure at what age that changed, but I'm glad no one shamed me about my underwear.  They just ignored it.[/quote]

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