PonyPotato

Maybe it's just a British thing or a "comfort with bodies" thing, but my parents put me in bikinis before I was even old enough to make demands about what I wanted to wear. They even let me go topless (just bikini bottoms) on the beach because a lot of the time I'd take the top off anyway. There are pictures of me wearing hot pink bikini bottoms on a beach in Florida when I was only about 4 years old. Is that wrong from your point of view?

As for the OP: I would probably go for a compromise, a tankini. That way some embarrassment/teasing may be avoided, yet she retains some freedom of choice and learns the value of compromise. There is almost always an "in-between" when it comes to clothes, and as long as that in-between is reasonable, I'll probably compromise on it with my future child(ren).

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