Push-up Bras for Seven Years Olds??

I found this blog in answer to the whole pre-teen sexualization thing, and she pretty much expresses my views. I have 4 girls, and they know about modesty. I don't know how people can say I'm teaching my daughters to be "prudes" and have low self esteem - it's just the opposite! I'm teaching them to highly value their beautiful bodies and not go throwing them in everyone's faces! I'm teaching them that a person is beautiful because of their words and actions, not because of the body they were born into.

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And they say the breast-feeding baby doll is what's causing teen pregnancy... Rediculous.

I posted pretty much this same thing last month because the same company sells padded push up STRING BIKINIS in sizes made for 8 year olds!!!!

The way to deal with this sort of company is to spend your money elsewhere. Money talks. Sometimes it's the only kind of talk that businesses listen to.

Happily, there are places where one can buy clothes that let children look like (as well as act like) children. Sometimes you have to look online. As for this sort of trash, you can perhaps educate your kids with your laughing contempt of the products.

My girls are grown, but when they were young, we did a lot of catalogue shopping (before online shopping became big), particularly to get tank tops, shorts, and swimsuits that the girls could enjoy wearing but which were still modest enough. If I'd had sewing skills I would have tried to make them clothes that were appropriate but "cooler" than anything sold in a mall.

Please try to raise your boys to honor the girls who don't try (or want) to be bombshells.

Oh, and we wonder, as a society, why teen pregnancies are on the rise. Duh, because sexuality it pushed onto children at younger and younger ages.

I too have a son (14 years old), but the pressure to be older than his age is the same. Propagated by popular music, television, and literature. I have a rule in my house, when his friends come over, "Just act your age". I have seen tough, "aged" early teens sigh in relief and pull out the bin of Legos and re-learn how to be a kid again.

I spent almost a decade working in youth development and realize that our kids are dealing with issues that we never even thought of when we were that age. But, let us not forget that the real issue here is the parents that are caving to mass marketing and media and allowing their young girls to wear the push up bras. Really? It drives me crazy.

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Personally, I think it's disgusting, but then again...apparently...there are a lot of disgusting mothers out there. I know probably every single one of us thinks it's terrible, but then, we're good mothers. Then there are the mothers who want to be friends with their 7 year olds, who they've already raised to be awful, snotty brats. They do exist...let's just all be glad we love our children enough to be good mothers!

I can shed light, too. Every day we move closer and closer to the end of the world. It's still at any given moment at least seven years away, but it's getting closer. The closer it gets, the more people are going to fall into sin. I think that pretty much explains it. Don't mean to sound like some street-corner nut job, but it's just the truth.

When I heard that Abercrombie started making thongs for little girls, I boycotted them. My 10 year old NEEDS a bra, but only the thinnest one.
I get really mad when I see little girls in shorts that say "cute" on the butt part. WHY????? Are you TRYING to turn on the perves out there?
My little girls are little girls. I am already dreading the teenage years, no reason to start them early right?

Well, they wouldn't make these things if morons weren't out buying them.

I don't think this has anything to do with sin and the end of the world, there have always been stupid people out there. The difference is in the type of stupid things being done.

It IS absolutely ridiculous. But as a good parent with free will, I will CHOOSE not to buy them or let my girls wear them. Someone at A&F obviously thinks there are parents out there who WILL choose to buy them - and sadly, they're probably right. A&F is a clothing company - their one and only job is to sell clothes, not monitor my morals or be a watchdog as to how I raise my kids. That's MY job and I think I do it pretty well. So no matter how many push-up bras or thongs for kids they try to sell, I won't be buying and my kids WON'T be wearing them. But I'm not outraged by any means, I choose not to be. What they do doesn't impact me even a little bit, except to briefly shake my head, roll my eyes, and mutter "idiots" under my breath.

What I find most troubling is that there are parents out there who purchase these items for their 7 year old daughters (at least I assume they must be doing so; otherwise there wouldn't be a market for it).

The world is getting more insane every day. This is just absurd. EVERYthing is about sex and money. Rest assured that MOST parents are not going to be purchasing these types of items and I doubt they will be on the shelves for long. It will be a short lived phase and whoever invented and marketed this will use it as a tax write off since it wont sell... and then "poof" it will be gone.
I hope :)

OMG! This just makes me hurt. I found out the other day that girls are starting their period as young as seven too. I have a six year old girl. So scary!!! She is still a baby to me. Don't get me wrong, she is very independant and strong willed and smart. But as for all the womanly stuff, i just am not ready to face it.

Luckly for me, she is pretty easy going in that area. Meaning there are girls in her kindergarten class that talk about boys and boyfriends and who is with who (I know, kindergarten!). But she pretty much stays out of all that. She also isn't the most fashion forward child, the most "trendy" thing she owns is a silver sequend hat. :) so, I think she is pretty confident in herself. I just hope it stays that way!!!

Push up bras at at 7?
My question is....what is there to push up?
I think that this stems from the constant talk about people getting boob jobs and look how it's trickled down?
Even 7 year olds apparently think they need to look like they have boobs.
I'm not saying anything against women who get their boobs done, it's a choice. But I do think that it's obvious little girls have perhaps been impressed by this in not such a healthy way.
I'm small breasted. My mom and sister are natually endowed. I feel perfectly fine built the way I am. My sister wanted to borrow some of my clothes when we went on a trip and she couldn't get anything I owned over her boobs.
Some kids grow up way too fast as it is today. I don't think we need to encourage them.
That's just my opinion.

Some little girls parents are going to sue Ambercrombie for whiplash. Think about it, nothing to push up, bra snaps up around the neck throwing the head back.....My daughter is almost 9 and there is nothing to push up! How does it stay in place without causing the afore mentioned whiplash?

I'm no prude but Ambercrombie and Fitch is SO sleezy, it has that sleezy lets get laid nightclub atmosphere that permeates about 20 feet past its doors in the mall.

For me padded and push ups are different things. Push ups take the boobs and, well, I guess like the name says "push the up" (dahh, sorry I don't know why even though the need to explain that, lol.
But padded can be 2 things: the ones that add a size and make boobs look bigger and the ones that are lightly padded and they don't really add anything but is for help them to not make them so obvious, help with modesty maybe is the use(aka, nipple showing or that pointy perky look that we get when we just start get our boobs) .
When my daughter was seven she still wear shirts, then she start using training bras (without padding but the thick cotton ones) now she is 13 and she likes the lightly padded because it helps her to cover better, they don't add anything and she also use sport bras, again she rather the very thick ones so they don't show anything (she wears white shirts for school).
I do have a problem with the ones that add boobs and push ups, I agree, is not only not need but also so stereotypic. I don't like our kids (girls or boys) to feel pressure to look like anything...well, that is not true, I want them to look clean that is my only one, lol.
I also don't agree with short skirts or mini shorts, I am talking about the super short that barely cover anything and that I always see in "cool" stores for kids, ugggg!
I think that not only girls have the pressure, more and more I see boys getting cough in this things too.
I do hear more and more parents arguing about this so I think and hope this may not last to long, then again it does scare me what is next?

I have a nine year old and we just went and got her first bra. She actually could have been wearing them last year, but I told her when she was ready, and it took her this long. Anyways, I'm standing there looking at the bra section for little girls and I had no idea what to get her. I had to go and get some help. I've been in a D cup since high school and none of them looked supportive to me. There was a choice between something that looked like a chopped off halter top and these ridiculously sexy bras. I didn't think the halters looked like they would support anything, but I didn't want her wearing something that looked like she was hoping to get some tonight. I was looking for a plain white sensible bra. No under wires because she doesn't need them yet. Apparently they don't carry those in her size. We ended up opting for tank tops with built in bras. This will work for a while, but what if her chest develops more over the summer? So to answer your question, this is why someone might. Personally I'm going to try a couple more stores and amazon, but as a stay at home mom I have the time to look, what if I were working?

Have you seen the thongs for toddlers??? Talk about blood boiling!

My first response is what the he!! - and I don't curse much. My final response is what the he!!.

It's bad enough women in their 20s are starting to use botox.I agree with you completely.

This article speaks perfectly how I feel about this:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/19/granderson.children...

I definately AGREE! My little girl that's 11 year's old going on 12 has already hit puberity, she has a big chest but I would DEFINATELY NOT let her wear anything that I myself would wear or buy. She's soo innocent and hate's the fact that she has gone through puberity and has to wear bra's...I always try to get her plain bra's (which is extremely hard!) and she wears "hanes" unddie's...At the age of 7, they 1st off have'nt grown a figure to beable to wear one, plus I thought or would think that they would still be into Disney Princess thing's? Anyways, any parent that think's it's "ok" to purchase bra's with padding in it-especially that young!- is just waiting- asking for problems or shall I say a "problem-child". Things like this make me soo sad to hear,I still rember when Gap Kid's sold THONG'S for little girls (pre-teen's), that was about 10 years ago and it was on the new's! I know that they stopped selling them because they lost alot of business.
Also, I strongly agree with you when you stated about pressure being put on the child or even presenting them as "bombshell's". Or how about the little girl's with TON'S of make-up on? I went to my 8 year old son's soccer game and one of the mom's had brought her that was the same age as my daughter, the little girl had on soo much make-up it was completely insane! I'm talking racoon eye's! It's soo sad, I'm not gong to preach and say that I'm perfect because I'm not, I myself am still learning in life BUT I also keep in mind how my parent's taught me and raised me and I try to do the same with my children...Sorry, I probably kinda vented but issues like this make me soo upset as well!

I never pushed my girls to grow up fast. I was glad they had longer childhoods. We are women fast enough. CNN also has an artical about not pushing pre-pubescent girls into early adulthood.
I'm glad you posted this as it is a real problem in our society of young girls dressing sexy at far too inappropriate ages.

I'm with you, That is one of the most rediculous things I have ever heard of, my daughter now 21 started a training bra at 12, she was just starting to bud. I personally don't know any mother who buy a pish up bra for a 7 year old. J.

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I'm with you, That is one of the most rediculous things I have ever heard of, my daughter now 21 started a training bra at 12, she was just starting to bud. I personally don't know any mother who buy a pish up bra for a 7 year old. J.

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I'm with you, That is one of the most rediculous things I have ever heard of, my daughter now 21 started a training bra at 12, she was just starting to bud. I personally don't know any mother who buy a pish up bra for a 7 year old. J.

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I'm with you, That is one of the most rediculous things I have ever heard of, my daughter now 21 started a training bra at 12, she was just starting to bud. I personally don't know any mother who buy a pish up bra for a 7 year old. J.

What I want to know is, how can a push up bra possibly work for a 7 year old? I mean there has to be something to"push up" which a 7 yo does not have.
do see the point in a padded bra, as some 7 and 8 yo are starting a little breast development, and it hides that bumpy nipply look, which some perverts could get a kick out of I guess.