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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the parents of 6th graders chiming in like my kid doesn’t even know what these things are, what are you all allowing your kids to have, etc., meanwhile a year from now they will be making the very same suggestions they are judging. [/quote]

Maybe, maybe not. I never cared about the popular brands of my youth. Not all kids are into that stuff. [/quote]
I mean that’s the whole point of the responses. The answers will be kid-specific. Not every 11 year old will be into the tween uniform, but at the same time not every 11 year old will be into the more individualized suggestions on this thread. The bottom line is no one should be judging the interests of a tween girl if they don’t align with what your tween would be interested in. [/quote]

So many of these responses are very clearly the moms wanting their girls to be cool, though. It's very obvious.[/quote]

Growing up my mom actively encouraged me to dress differently than everyone else (in what she liked, not in a way that was interesting for it's own sake) and be straight up immature on the theory that behavior like that was more "innocent." Maybe it was slightly better than trying to force me into being cool, but the pendulum can definitely swing too much in the other direction.

There's nothing wrong with either letting your kid go with some trends or even pointing kids to trends they might like. Trust me when I say it's not fun to be the weird kid in middle school, unless that's a choice the kid herself is consciously making.[/quote]

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