Should kids be allowed to wear make up like adults?

Question

It's about time when style statements must change.

I am only talking about girls over 6 years of age.

Answer 1

I raised six girls, so I have an opinion about this which is rather strong. My girls were each allowed to apply eye liner at the end of eighth grade, IF they graduated with a grade point of 3.0 or higher. Then, each year there after, I added one more item to the list, again at the end of the school term and as long as they graduated that grade with a average of 3.0 or higher.

We had other incentives too to encourage the children to do well in school, as well as their home and social life outside of school.

However, with the girls it seemed make up was a large motivating factor for them.

With that said, I really think makeup is something which encourages sexuality. I say this because it is all about enhancing ones looks. The major reason an individual wishes to enhance looks is to attract the opposite sex. That means it is a sexually related item.

When girls reach puberty they are under a great deal of stress to conform to the sexual expectations of their opposite sex peers, the very ones they hope to attract in the fist place. On top of this pressure is the pressure they feel from their same sex peers as some excel at attracting 'boyfriends" and others are either lagging behind due to late blooming puberty, or simple akwardness socially, for whatever reason.

I am not saying that all girls who date have sex. These two items really are mutually exclusive, regardless of what some might wish to have them believe.

Girls who are age twelve and younger are far too young to be even thinking of sexual issues and they certainly don't have sexual urges. Sadly, our society, here in the States, and other Western countries are encouraging our young girls to engage in adult behaviors.

I fought this off for my girls for as long as I could. I NEVER referred to a friend who was a boy, as a "boyfriend", unlike many other silly mothers. To call a five year olds male friend a "boyfriend" with all the sexual conantation it raises, is just pushing daughters towards the sexual act.

It is difficult enough to help your teens remain children while they are still actually children.

We are only children for a short eighteen years, but adults for sixty seven (67) or more years! Why push our children into adult activities while they are still children? They will have to be adults for far longer than their childhood will last. With all the adult worries, concerns, and obligations which goes along with adulthood.

I too often see very young girls wearing adult clothing, suductive clothing and makeup, dressed up like miniature adults. This has so many disasters waiting to happen. I don't care if every individual is responsible for their own actions, children are not capable of making adult decisions, or of keeping themselves safe from those monsters out there who prey upon children at risk. The more provocative a child is the more chance of becoming a statistic as a victim.

Children never think in terms of bad things happening to them. Bad things always happen to other people, other children. Children do not think in terms of mortality, and death is a foreign affair, not something which happens to them. Only those children who have experianced the death of a very close loved one can possibly conceive that death could come and visit them.

It is the responsibility of parents to ensure their childrens safety. It is the responsibility of parents to help their children keep their innocence for as long as possible. It is the responsiblity of parents to help their children grow in a proper healthy and functional manner, rather than just allowing them to do whatever they wish to do, or whatever the other children are dong. We have far to much peer presure for parents to fall prey to it as well, worrying that their children are not on tract in their developement, or even what proper childhood developement looks like.

Pushing our children to act and dress as adults steals their childhood from them, and pushes them into sexuality far before they are ready. We then wonder how our daughter came up pregnant, or dead in a ditch because some monster saw her sauntering down the street dressed like a hooker.

These so called Child Beauty Contests are sickening. I am saddened so many parents lose sight of what is important in childhood. This is to BE a child. Children do not dress or act like adults. Children are NOT minature adults, they are not fully developed, physically, mentally, or emotionally.

So, absolutely no! Children should NOT be allowed to wear makeup like adults from age six and up.

Around age thirteen or fourteen is soon enough, and it is difficult to keep them from it at younger ages. It is parents responsiblity to know what their children are doing at all times, know who they hang with, what they are up to, and engaged them in healthy activities which bring out their inate gifts, talents and skills, aid them in developing those items and their self esteem will flourish, and their confidence will grow at a steady rate.

Allow them to run around dressed like adults, and doing God only knows what, and they will lose their innocence, and wind up hurt, pregnant, or both. Kiss their childhood goodbye, even if the parent allows an abortion. Children are not capable of deciding if their conscience can handle an abortion, if it would haunt them for the rest of their lives. Even adult women have difficulty coping with an abortion; children don't even know what they believe yet.

So, parents say they don't have the ability to ensure their children follow their rules, they are too busy working to pay the bills to keep an eye on them 24/7. Well, that is an excuse and I won't accept it as even that. Children depend on their parents to make the right decisions, and even if they fight you they wiill one day thank you for taking the effort to raise them with morals, priciples, ethics, and integrity.

I told my children that they only thing in life they really possess is their honor. Without honor they have nothing. Discard their honor and that discarded honor follows them throughout their lives, contaminating everything they do and touch. Keep their honor and that too will follow them throughout their lives, and it will enhance everything they do and touch.

We are born naked and with nothing. When we die, all we can take is that which we have added to our charactor, our morals, integrtiy, and honor. Do all you can to increase these things and we truly live a rich life and die enhanced, we leave this would better than when we entered it.

Regardless of what your religious beliefs are, or if you have none at all, honor is the same for all of us. You don't need a religion to tell you what is right and what is wrong, you know it to your marrow. If it feels icky, then it is icky.

My kids, when they reached young adulthood, thanked me for holding them to bouderies and helping them stay children for as long as I could. One slipped through my fingers, and she died. Was it the makeup which led to her death? It was partly to blame, because she was in such a rush to grow up, to do what she saw her biological mother do, and makeup is a part of that. Growing up I mean. Children seem to think that putting on face paint,and shaving their legs makes them adults. While they think they are adults they tend to rush into adult behaviors which place them in dangers way. Children engaging in adult behaviors places them in dangers way because children do not have the mental developemental capacity to see the danger they are in, and they continue to engage is risky behaviors. Men see these young girls dressed up like adult women, the makeup often obscures their real youth, and the next thing you know the child isin asituation she simply does not have the capasity to deal with.

As parents it is our responsibility to help guide our children into adulthood, and to protect them from their own desire to grow up too fast. As I pointed out at the start of this, they are only children for a short eighteen years and are adult for over sixty seven, (67). Let us try our best to discourage the use of makeup, and other adult behaviors when they are young.

Answer 2

They're cute as a joke. I'd pick were I'd let them wear them. Mostly that would be around the house, not out. I wouldn't let my child wear the "baby, not a midget, do not toss", "they shake me", or the "I enjoy a good spanking. My son has a disability, so I don't find the midget one very funny and the other two aren't very funny either. I like the daddy's little squirt and the Yankees one. Some people definitely take themselves to seriously.

Answer 3

No they should not be allowed to. I think it sends a bad message. Girls are looking more and more slu*ty at younger and younger ages. But I think that playing dress up or whatever at home is fine if they want to put on makeup, but they should not be allowed to leave the house that way.

Answer 4

It depends on how much make up your talking about. If your talking about lip gloss and maybe natural eye shadow, I think it is fine from time to time. If your talking about the full blown face coverage makeup then I would say not until they were a teenager. Little kids are already acting too old for their ages without that added on.

Answer 5

Of course, it depends upon the age and maturity of the child. I don't think that any young lady should be allowed to leave her home looking like a street walker, but she should be allowed to wear makeup that is age appropriate.

Answer 6

no !!! that's way to young and make the parents look bad. sounds like their teaching their kids to be lucious at that young age.

Answer 7

yeh i think its kool seriousli its just minerals mixed with color applied on the human face, any adult thats says thats wrong is being truly hyprocritical as im guessing most adults have/do apply makeup. for thoose who embrace the all natural look , its kool, but dont give people that choose to use makeup any flack for it, asits a personal choice and it dosent effect you or the environment, or anyone for that matter?