What are your thoughts on all the early teens (13-15) trying to look so grown up?

Question

My sister is thirteen, and wears more makeup than i do. I see all of her friends and all these little girls everywhere wearing heavy makeup and clothes too tight and too revealing way too young.I'm 18 and the younger kids are wearing clothes just as, if not more, revealing than many of my friends in college that are going to a party, and most wear these close on a regular basis. I think it look horrible. Anyone else seen girls like this? what are your thoughts?

Answer 1

It's usually a touchy subject with alot of older people. By older I mean normally someone that is over 35, someone that never experienced spring break, someone that never watched MTV, someone that has never really been totally in touch with the culture that the kids are growing up in today.
I actually work in a teen center with teens. I notice the same thing and am not really shocked at all. Everything they see is geared to an older generation. The things that people that grew up in the 60's forgot all about Woodstock and everything they did. It goes with the old saying,"I've already done it, so you don't have to."
Which is completely false, kids are going up faster and faster now, check out the movies they watch. Really, it's the movies that everyone make popular, Jackass and Borat are just 2 outrageous examples.
They have access to everything now, because of the Internet. Also because of us, now I just turned 30 myself and I remember my mother making a big deal about me watching The Simpson's because Bart had a bad attitude. Well, That just pushed me harder to make a separation, a break between the generations. I though Bart was just funny, for something to be shocking it had to be something else. Hence my generation brought you Jackass and Borat.
Your work as an 18 year old is not to push them away but to hold them closer. Make sure they are checking themselves, when they are more self aware. They will be less likely to pull a Britney Spears or Paris Hilton, these are the people they are watching and imitating. You should set a more positive role model and not everyone will follow but some will. That's the most important thing I think. Peace out

Answer 2

I'm 18 as well.
I live in a town possessed with fashion, and buying more and more things, and just becoming more and more shallow.
So this is nothing new to me, but the thing is that, here everyone dresses like high maintenance prostitutes.
I actually made peace with the fact that people would not have money to feed themselves, but have the money to go shopping every Saturday.
Those are the values we give to the younger generation, they are not to blame.
The girls today think that if they dress like prostitutes will, attract more attention, and bother on their outer look and just go dumb.
What can you do?

Answer 3

im 14 and there are so many girls @ my school that dress really slutty. a girl once got sent home 4 wearing something that looked like a string bikini top in the shape of an x. eventually, these girls are gonna become hookers that even their own stepdads wont want, and will have 4000 stds and die of one of them

Answer 4

That's because 13-15 years are grown up people, that's the fact that are often forgotten and denied today.



As for heavy makeup with clothes too tight and too revealing.

Well, if older grown up wear them, why not younger grown up?

However if older grown up don't, then they shouldn't.

They should look good, they shouldn't act like their age and in the same time they shouldn't don't act like their age.



As for it look horrible and so on.

That's what happen if girls dress on their own, they should let guys dress them, because only a guy can make a girl look good in a dress.

The best fashion designers are males.

Answer 5

I am 12, almost 13, and people in our school do that.
I personally think it's stupid.
Why hide your face?
And tight clothes make you look trashy.
I think its really stupid.

I have a cell phone, but barely use it. I was given it for emergancys, but I am allowed to use it for friends. Cell Phone's aren't the problem.

Answer 6

im 18 too, and i think it looks ridiculous....it looks like they're trying to hard and I never remember dressing or wearing that much makeup at that age. my style is like abercrombie or hollister & if i'm going to a party I shop at like forever 21 or express, and i see my friends sister, who is 14, doing the same thing! it's crazy! in my opinion it also makes them look fake.

Answer 7

Yes. I have the exact same situation! I'm 17, and my little sister is 13 and in 7th grade... She and her friends wear more make up than me or ANY of my friends its rediculous! Their clothes are like 3 sizes to small and they all wear bras that have cup sizes larger than actually fit them so their super tight clothes look good. I think its retarded and they are trying to grow up entirely to fast!

Answer 8

also when u wear clothes 3 sizes too small even tho ur not fat, when it looks like u cant fit into ur clothes its makes u seem fat, moms, check ur daughters faces b4 they leave and when they get home. news the hooker wanna bee's only guys looking 4 more then a relationship are concidering u.a guy who wants a gf doesnt like it when other guy r staring at u cuz of of ur sluttiness

Answer 9

I agree. I also think that people are getting cellphones way tooooo early. They just want to act cool which bugs me. I hope they put all that effort into school because most of "them" aren't very smart. I wear some of those clothes but never very tight.

Answer 10

yea... im 14 but like i still see kids my age like wearing way too much makeup and dressing really slutty. like last year when i was in 8th graders they 6th graders wore like skirts that hardly covered their butts and like they wore more make up in one day than i would wear in like a week. so yes. i agree with you but i definetly don't dress like that.

to all of you girls out there that do dress like that, all of my guy friends said its a huuuuuuge turn off. just to let you know ;-)