KIDS NEED BODY CONFIDENCE NOT BODY CON DRESSES

Tottering on vertiginous heels like a newborn giraffe. Skirts short and skin tight restricting any attempt at normal movement.

Fake tan in several shades ranging from lightly sun kissed to Satsuma and acrylic nails that sparkle with glittering jewels.

Top this off with a crowning glory of luxurious tresses that clip out at the end of the night and enough make up to make a pantomime dame jealous and what do you have a perfect recipe for ?

A  Friday night out on the Medway towns?

A hen night perhaps, or just a group of ladies celebrating the weekend with drunken fun and japes.

No, this wild night out is much closer to home and these glamour queens are barely into their double digits.

Now I’m no Mary Whitehouse but even I can’t hide my sharp intake of breath as I see some of the outfits that pass for preteen wear these days and it’s none so more apparent than on junior school disco night.

 When I was a youngster back in the 80s this was the night where you got hyper on as much fizzy pop and confectionary as the money in your pocket could buy whilst bodypopping and jumping “ legs akimbo “  from the wall mounted P.E apparatus to “Fame” .

Now it seems to involve girls who haven’t reached puberty yet wearing clothes my father would have had 40 fits about in my late teens let alone my tweenage years, twerking for boys who let’s be frank ,are more interested in the x box than anything x rated.

There’s body con dresses on bodies that don’t have any curves to be conscious about, hot pants with  bum cheeks hanging out and racy sloganned t-shirts that project messages that I’m pretty sure they probably don’t understand.

My generation was lucky, the role models we girls grew up with in the 90s were feisty Britpop or rock girls, ladies in t shirts and jeans who would kick your butt if you so much as trod on her addidas shell toes. However somewhere towards the end of the 90s we lost those fantastic females to the pre packaged manufactured pop pinup and they and their “ basically just a vest and drawers “ outfits have been leading our kids further down the  slowly bordering on soft porn pop path ever since .

Parents it’s our duty to educate our kids, girls as well as boys that this is a fantasy and the real world is where they should exist.

Let your children know they need natural beauty not layers of make up

Body confidence not body con dresses.

Fun not fake tan.

 And that acting your age sure beats acres of airbrushing.

And if still they don’t believe you point out that if Miley is so keen to be thought of as an adult artiste why did she appear on the m.t.v awards dancing with  teddies wearing something that was little more than a baby gro !
GIRL FROM THE NECK DOWN COLUMN - MEDWAY MESSENGER