Parenting - The Too Sexy Too Early Study - Your Daughter and Your Parenting

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Parenting is labor intensive when you do it				girl, like many 14 year old girls, that had a
right.				body that looked like she was 20-something.

Have you heard about the results of the "Too				One day when she came in for an appointment
Sexy Too Early" Study by the American				she was wearing a tight t-shirt that depicted
Psychiatric Association?				a beach scene across her chest, with a hotel
				in the foreground with a sign that said
Warning: You are about to read a RANT!				"Rooms by the hour."

And they needed a study to know this?				I realized that she had no idea what she was
				communicating with her t-shirt, so I decided
That's half the problem!				to have the conversation about it with her
				mom present. Neither one of them had any idea
The fact that we needed a study to show that				what was being communicated, both of them
the "sexualization" of young girls causes				blushed, and both were very embarrassed.
damage to them is a symptom of the lack of
common sense in our culture.				And this was a reasonably involved mom!

So the American Psychiatric Association has				My bottom line point is this:
determined that all the focus on pre-teens
and young teens looking pretty and sexy is				While the bodies of young teenage girls may
damaging. Well, that's a good start. I'd like				have matured to the point of being able to
to see what they are gonna do about it.				have sex, in no way are they emotionally,
				mentally, or spiritually prepared to have sex
I remember a family I worked with years ago				or to be sexualized.
that had a 14 year old daughter. This was a