It has nothing to do with gender…!..It is the fact that the kid is being used like an exhibit and his pictures are plastered all over the internet.He is well aware of the fact that he is getting special attention just because of the way he looks/dresses.His parent seems to be obsessed and pretty soon he will follow once he is a lil older.
I have a 3 yo old myslef and I am confident when I say that I dress her up well.She wants to pick out her outfits and matches her socks and clips etc with her dress but I am not making her an exhibit.She knows she looks pretty but that is it.There is more to a person’s,or be it a child’s,personality than just vanity & the way they look and the brands they wear.A five year old should look like a 5 year old.
Some kids innately are charmers and they bask in the attention others give just by being their charmer self but a five year old cannot know what gucci and prada is. A shirt is a shirt so the mother who claims this child is so aware of designers probably had some hand in raising a brand concious child. I am totally guilty of having a daughter who is a little too obsessed with herself despite the fact that I walk around like a maasi at home. However, outside I do look presentable and she notices when I have eyeshadow on. I dont do makeup in front of them but children are not stupid, they see color and they see mama all done up and they comment. The things she gravitates toward arent brands but sparkle and glitter and a fave character here and there!!! She cannot tell the difference between gap or circo nor should she and yes she likes to hear oohs and aahs but this thread def made me realize I am making some parenting blunders that will come and haunt me 12 years down the lane. What is cute now might not be in 12 years. We def need to teach our kids that there is more to a person than looking good like being a kind, decent human.
devi… reminds me… midget wouldnt be seen without shades, keys and his fake phone when outside. it was cute inthe beginning but it became too much in my eyes… i forced him to give them up sometimes and its not necessary to have it all when you step out. it was so hard.. but he got the message.
genie is always askin for me to put bangles on her when we go out… yeep.. she cant even talk but she points and points … im not giving in.. she wears em only if we are going to someone’s house… otherwise.. no missy…
They love their churiyan and sunnies as well but I am the one getting the sunnies and all the jewelry and I want them to have fun with clothes and shoes but I think I need them to know its okay if you have no accessories on!!! Right now, they don’t ask for them but I think I wanna keep it that way!!! But yea these kids see everything around them, they arent as sheltered as we were, and they def know what they want. I went to college with frizzy hair and had no idea what a straightener was and now there is a toddler on youtube doing makeup and she blends her eyemakeup better than I ever could. This generation is a whole new ball game and no one warmed me hehe!!!
My girl is actually a boy she dont like ponys band anything i apply those rubber banda bc she is not able to remove them i dont care they are not matching for me her hair ties properly is more important
She dont like frocks skirts she us cranky in them she mostly wear shots n pants n trousers shirt oh no jewl at all , loves her joggers
My tomboy, more than myself i will credit to her these things doesnt matter to her. She is more interested in her Toys and tv
And i dont make hooh haa when she dresses so Thts y she dont feel anything special in dressing though she loves bright colours
I dont know i am doing right or wrong but i never express in front of her tht this us matching looking nice just when we are done i tell her good girl n she feels happy tht she co operated in wearing shoes clothes and ctying her hair Thts why she is good girl.
She notice my nail polish lipstick Hugh feels in fact play wth my nails but never asked for.
Yes, this boy is cute, but I completely disagree with him being a style icon at this age. He will grow up to be very superficial (he probably already is).
Also, I understand his parents can afford all these designer clothes for him, but it shouldn’t matter whether they can afford it or not - it’s about instilling certain values in children. What does this teach a kid? It teaches them to become vain and superficial. It teaches them you have to have all the latest gadgets and designer clothes to be cool and be accepted by others and then the kid may even look down upon other kids who don’t dress a certain way etc.
I think he is WAY too young to have all these designer clothes and have it plastered all over instagram for the world to see. Let a kid be a kid. Whatever happened to the five year olds that played in the mud and got their wal-mart clothes all dirty? It didn’t really matter and they probably could care less they even got their clothes dirty because they were just being kids!
I swear parents these days are using their children as a way to show off. It’s like their children are their latest accessories. I see this even in my own circle of family and friends.
I can’t stand fohawk or faux hawk hair cuts on baby boys either. I see sooooo many parents now days putting this type of hair cut on their baby boys and dressing them in clothes similar to the ones in the pictures of this boy. The baby boys don’t even look like babies anymore! Just let kids be kids.
If parents keep doing this we are going to have on our hands the most superficial generation of kids ever known to man kind. And then parents will wonder where they went wrong.
This is not cute at all. In fact it is very disturbing. At this age, a boy should actually be running around in his shorts and getting himself dirty in the mud.
I also find images of little girls wearing maxi dresses and carrying purses extremely disturbing. What is the world coming to??
A 15-year-old schoolboy was kicked out of class after he turned up with a blonde DAVID BECKHAM-style HAIRCUT.
Kurt Hallam returned from holiday proudly sporting the ‘pompadour’ style hairdo sported by the footie legend as well as teen heart-throb Justin Bieber and TOWIE star Joey Essex.
But teachers at strict Nottingham Academy branded his blonde streaks ‘extreme’, and placed the Year 10 pupil in isolation before sending him home.
They said the Beckham-style – which includes shaved sides and longer hair flicked back on top with blonde highlights – broke school rules.
When Kurt went to school the next day he was given a red card by teachers and told not to return until he had the streaks washed out.
Kurt’s mum Samantha, 37, blasted the school’s ban on the Beckham hairdo.
The mum-of-two, who is also a hairdresser, fumed: “I think it’s pathetic.
“I don’t understand how they can claim it is too extreme – I think he looked very smart when he walked out of the door that day.
“David Beckham is a respectable father and footballer, what’s wrong with boys trying to emulate that look?
“I work with young children a lot and if they ask for an unusual style we always check whether it’s going to break any rules.
“You see schoolchildren with bright red hair and they seem to be getting away with this.
“We had been on holiday and he decided to have his hair done. It seemed fine to me.
“He has just finished his mock exams and he has now been really unsettled by this.
“I’ve washed his hair and it’s not quite as bright as it was.
“I’ve had a chat with the teacher who was involved but I still don’t feel satisfied with the whole process.”
Kurt was first put in isolation last Monday and again the next day – before going home at lunchtime.
Samantha agreed to wash his hair with a special shampoo designed to fade colours – and he was allowed back in class last Wednesday.
Kurt said he felt he had been treated unfairly – and picked on when other boys have the same haircut.
He said: “Other people walk around with similar haircuts.
“I’d been on holiday and was asked if I wanted some flicks in so I thought ‘why not?’
“I’m a fan of David Beckham and I saw that he had the same style so I thought I’d treat myself.
“I never expected to be kicked out of school.
“I think I have been singled out.”
Nottingham Academy, which is one of 17 sponsored by the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust, yesterday defended its policy.
Executive principal Kelvin Hornsby said: “Our pupils are ambassadors for the academy and we expect them to represent us in the correct manner.
“We want our pupils to present themselves smartly as we believe that the self-discipline this requires is an important lesson to learn as pupils will find that there is often a dress code in most places of work.
“We provide very clear guidance to parents in our prospectus and pupil planner and communicate regularly with pupils about our expectations.”
It comes after Beckham, 38, was ALLOWED in to a school – to join in with son Cruz’s sports day.
The ex-England legend – wearing a baseball cap – was pictured racing to victory over other dads at the Los Angeles elementary.
In May this year a school warned mums and dads their kids would be sent home if they turned up sporting ‘Joey Essex’ haircuts.
The Billericay School, Essex, even contacted local barbers and pleaded with them not to give pupils the style.
It’s interesting that you say that because when I first saw the pics I was surprised by the generally mild and positive reactions to them. I felt if a girl had been posed and posted in this way, there would’ve been a stronger and more negative reaction to her being “exploited.”
I think it is more common for us to expect these traits in girls – though I don’t think it makes it okay to encourage the preoccupation. Some kids like dressing up or trying on things. They also like being admired. It’s also fun to dress kids in outfits that make them look different or grown up or whatever. That’s all fine to a certain extent, I think.
I think why I found this disturbing is:
It seems like this is a constant obsession of mom and kid, and so there is constant reinforcement that THIS is how the child should get attention and appreciation.
The brand consciousness is not just a kid having fun dressing up. That is definitely from the parents, and it’s not something I myself would encourage in my own family.
The focus on looks that feel more “adult” to me. I can’t really figure out what it is, but many of them seem grown up in a way that makes me uncomfortable.
purely for the sake of looking at it from the other side for a second- these parents are very well off. their wardrobe is designer, they obviously take care of themselves according to their means and place emphasis on outward appearance, and with the mother being a stylist, obviously dressing up and looking good as well as maintaining a certain style standard is part of her job and her lifestyle. she’s just dressing her kid according to her means, her lifestyle and her values, isn’t she? just like all of us dress our kids up according to our means, lifestyle and values. so is it fair to judge her for it simply because we wouldn’t do the same?
also, what do you ladies mean when you say kids should be kids? what is stopping this kid from being a kid? for all we know, he is running around in the mud and getting his hands dirty albeit in gucci shoes and a prada shirt but how he dresses shouldn’t really stop him from “being a kid”, should it? he probably goes on playdates with other kids similarly privileged and attired. level playing field, no?
i dunno. i get that it makes people uncomfortable; i’m not entirely comfortable either and i’m not sure why, but i don’t think his appearance or his fondness for dressing up is a doomsday scenario and that he’ll grow up corrupt or morally decrepit. there IS more to who he is than his clothes, i’m sure of it. or there will be, anyway- i mean, he’s only 5 right now!</devils advocate>
he is more interested in breaking my glasses and wreaking havoc
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