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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You never thought of your daughter possibly being prematurely sexualized by wearing a bikini at a young age? 
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No, I didn’t.[/quote]

+1. Actually covering non-existent breasts in a young child is what is sexualizing.  [/quote]

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If this is where your mind goes to, you are going to have lots of things to work out, op. [/quote]

Come off it. All bathing suits cover non existent breasts. Having a child bathing suit cut like an adult string bikini is what's sexualizing. Same reason I wouldn't let my seven year old wear red nail polish or lipstick or high heels. It's sexualizing. [/quote]
No one but you mentioned a “string bikini.“[/quote]

So? Did it occur to you and the other posters arguing with me that I'm delineating between appropriate and inappropriate bathing suits? I have no problem with two pieces, but to pretend that there aren't trashy, overly sexualizing bikinis for CHILDREN out there is willfully ignorant. Our society gets its hooks into our girls early and I want to teach them that they don't have to wear clothes like that. Let me guess, you put your daughters in "I drive the boys crazy" and your sons in "lady killer" shirts? Kids clothes don't need to be sexualized.  [/quote]

Post an example of something that is not appropriate for a child. I have never come across one at the stores where I get my daughter’s clothing (90% comes from Hanna, Boden, Tea, and Jacadi; they all have very child-appropriate stuff with animals and fruits and bright colors and flowers and child-like stuff). [/quote]

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