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Originally Posted by guardian
I have read alot of people saying to find out why she would want to wear the thongs. Easy - That is the style you find on girls who are cool. You have TV showing the people they look up to wearing this stuff. Then you walk into WallMart and you find thongs and other underwear with Writing on the upper back in the Childrens Ile. My wife and I have a hard time understanding who would by this stuff but it does sell. I remember shopping and hearing a lady with here 6 year old saying how cute the underwear was that had writing on the upper back to show off. I am just scared to think were it is going next.
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Ha! I've felt the same way about Wal-Mart for a long time now. There's another thread where I mentioned this too. Wal-Mart won't sell Maxim, FHM, and the like because in their opinion, they advocate treating women as sex objects. They also prominently display all the religious type books right up front by the registers, and sell censored CD's.
Then you go to the kids section, and there's underwear, like you mentioned, with words on the ass, skimpy-cut, designed to be "flirty" but coming off more as "trampy". THESE ARE FOR CHILDREN. If Wal-Mart was really the last bastion of moral family values, they wouldn't even consider selling such crap. They'd also be closed on Sundays, like Chick-Fil-A, a franchise I respect deeply for giving up a day of weekend business for what their founders believe in, though I don't necessarily share their view that it's necessary.
But this isn't about Wal-Mart or Chick-Fil-A, this is about you and your daughter. I have two toddler sons, and I'm actually grateful I don't have to worry about this type of thing. Although, I'll probably be the one getting the phone calls from parents telling me to keep my kid away from their daughter someday. I agree with the overwhelming majority in here, 12 is too young to be wearing thongs. You might also want to examine the rest of your daughter's wardrobe. Is she wearing lots of "belly shirts?" Shorts with reading material on the butt like "flirt" or "sassy" or the like? Before you know it she might. To some extent I agree with Eric640, that she might not feel like she wants them as much as she feels she NEEDS them to fit in with her group of friends or with what she sees people in her age group wear on TV. The only thing to do is talk with her, and find out what her reasoning really is, what she thinks wearing thongs will do for her, and then explain to her what wearing thongs could potentially DO to her. Hopefully up to this point you've laid down a good enough framework that she'll understand.
And, to be honest, I agree with Seer666. I don't want to have to see her at the mall.
-Mikey