Around the Web…

Some interesting links for your Tuesday afternoon:

• A sexting cautionary tale to share with your teens — New York Times
• Padded, push-up bikinis for girls: Ga Ga or gag? – lilSugar.com
• Boys twice as likely to wet the bed as girls, study finds — Reuters
• 4 common problems with kids’ allowance — Parents.com
• Undercover sting reveals adoption scam — The Early Show

Comments

Padded, push-up bikinis for girls: Ga Ga or gag?
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WTH? Uhhhh definitely gag!

- Toya L. on March 29th, 2011

Little girls’ padded bikini tops: I saw these on “The Talk”. I am BEYONDDDDDDD appalled.

- Lis on March 29th, 2011

Wow, more free advertising for Ambercrombie! I don’t get the outrage? Ifit offends, don’t buy. And yes, I have an 8 year old daughter, who is smart enough to know she doesn’t wear bikinis like that. But for every mom who hates it, one thinks it is fine. Ambercrombie sells because of stories like this. I did send my daughter to school in a Ambercrombie shirt today. Lol

- Maryanne on March 29th, 2011

I do think it’s sad that little girls are sexualized but I have a lot of friends who think it’s adorable. They brag about the Hello Kitty thongs and how their daughters went as hookers for Halloween. Get it, it’s camp? Oh, well, I try not to worry because the world has always needed wh*res, just like it needs strong educated women who don’t focus completely on projecting a fake boob size so that men will like them. If we were all well adjusted, then who would teenage boys bang or grown men for that matter? Someone has to fill the need and, if their moms and dads are cool with it, then I’m going to just focus on raising my own kids differently. It’s all we can do anyway.

- Julie on March 29th, 2011

Oh, and I’m not hypocritical about boys being sexualized. I warn my boys not to date girls who dress like wh*res because they’ll end up catching something. Better to stick with nice girls who don’t put out, but are smarter and more confident. If more boys thought like that then maybe the disease rate wouldn’t be so high in this country. Still the last time I checked, they’re not selling goofy underwear or swimsuits to sex up boys. It’s always about the ladies.

- Julie on March 29th, 2011

No wonder there’s so many pedos out there, when stores sell this crap. I won’t even get into that Toddlers and Tiaras. Now theres a show thats every molesters fantasy. Gross.

- Amanda on March 29th, 2011

amanda this may be off topic but just so you know dressing children sexually has nothing to do with a paedophile’s desires. they are attracted to children not the way they dress so in that sense dressing them in this way doesn’t really make any difference.

- JM on March 31st, 2011

True JM…but they do like certain outfits or things. Toddlers and Tierra is a bad idea.

- Jillian on April 2nd, 2011

JM – I see what you’re saying but (I know this is a really strange way of putting it), if the pedophile mind works like ours but only towards children, I think it would matter what the kids are wearing. As in, I find men more attractive wearing suits & ties than I do in ripped trackpants.

- Allegra on April 3rd, 2011