by Cristina Mohr

Created on: February 24, 2009

After reading a friend and fellow parent's concern regarding her recent clothes shopping experience, I'm feeling sorrow for our children's future. When does the rushing to adulthood end? When you're shopping for underwear for your potty training toddler and notice packaged thong underwear for your very young 2 year old daughter. No, that wasn't a misunderstanding; you heard me right, toddler sized thongs for girls!

I am a parent, but I don't have a girl to clothes shop for yet. When I walk through a department store, I may glimpse at the girls section, but I never really stopped to get a good look. What I had been noticing are shorts and skirts getting shorter, scantly clad blouses that I wouldn't purchase for my teenage daughter, let alone a preschooler.

So when my friend, Jennifer Winters-Brannon, alerted me to toddler thongs, I was appalled! Here's more of the experience in her words:

"My 2 & 1/2 year old has done incredibly well with potty training. To celebrate, I took her to the department store and let her pick our her very own big girl panties...She picked up a pack and handed them to me, and they looked adorable... When I turned the package over to make sure it was the right size...The little diagram of the panties kind of shocked me. It looked like the panties were a thong. Ok, I flipped the package over, and it didn't say anything of the kind on the front...well, I was a bit curious, so I opened the package, and was absolutely shocked when I took a pair of panties out of the package, and it was a thong. What are people thinking to manufacture a THONG for a 2 year old?!?!?!? I noticed a sales girl standing not far away and asked her how well those panties sold...she said that they're hard to keep in stock. Again, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? She said that thongs are extremely popular and they were a part of a new genre of clothing called "prosti-tots" I'm sorry, but what?!? First and foremost, I'm shocked, angry and disappointed that people think it's cute to dress their little girls like tramps. I'm completely disgusted that someone actually coined a phrase that puts prostitute and toddler in the same word. To be quite honest, I'm just plain pissed that any self respecting parent would think it's cute, that it's harmless and that it's acceptable...I read reports in the paper (On police beat) about people having their children taken away for child endangerment or neglect...Isn't dressing a little girl, little more than a baby, like a tramp, a form of child

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