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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:12 AM
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My 5 1/2 year old daughter wanted to wear shorts under her dress today
because she was afraid the boys would see her panties if she didn't.

I think my chances of having a heart attack in the next 10 years just increased dramatically.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:13 AM
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1. At least she didn't want them to see her panties. Sounds like
she is one smart gal!!!!
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:15 AM
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2. That's what I was thinking too.
Poor NewJeffCT would have a guarantee of heart failure if she wanted them to see her panties!
:-)
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:16 AM
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3. My dear NewJeffCT!
It's quite a ride, being a parent, isn't it?

Hang in there...

You're doing great, and so is she!

:hug:
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 11:32 AM
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16. If she turns out well
It will be in spite of me, I think.

I've had several parents compliment our daughter for how well-behaved she is and want to know our secret, and I honestly have no clue what the secret is because I don't think we do anything special.
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SeaLyons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:19 AM
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4. Sounds like she's got
a great Dad. She'll be fine.
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:20 AM
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5. I don't blame her. When I was in first grade
the older boys at my bus stop used to try to lift up my skirt and grope me. I distinctly remember smacking one of them with a fruit roll-up. I think my mom started driving me to school after a while.
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:22 AM
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6. just remember there are certain
shoes that would reflect up a girls dress!! she is a smart 5 1/2 year old!
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:23 AM
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7. it could be worse...
apparently there is this cute trend now of teaching toddler girls to lift their shirts and say "girls gone wild!!"
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:25 AM
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9. no
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:30 AM
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12. seriously...
i heard 2 different people mention their nieces being taught to do it, and then i saw it on some youtube clip too. It's frightening.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:32 AM
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13. You had to mention youtube the very day Gary Glitter gets out of jail
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:35 AM
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14. he's out of jail already?
I just saw Hard Candy this weekend.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 12:12 PM
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22. who teaches them?
to do that? isn't that contributing to the delinquency of a minor?
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 12:18 PM
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25. Would you believe
it's their parents?
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montanto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 03:43 PM
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29. Another cute trend is thongs for 5 year olds.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:25 AM
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10. lol
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:24 AM
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8. One of the girls in my neighborhood when I was growing up solved that problem...
by not wearing panties.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:25 AM
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11. a friend of mine's young daughter was recently sent home from school...
...to put on panties under her dress. She'd apparently been going commando because her mom had explained the importance "of letting the air flow around my vagina." One cannot be too conscientious about that sort of thing!
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Rambis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 10:56 AM
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15. Skort
skirt with pants brilliant my 5 1/2 year old loves them.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 11:33 AM
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17. She has some of those, but this
was a new dress that my wife had just bought on a recent business trip - unfortunately, my wife is sometimes clueless about sizes and the like, so bought a sun dress that probably would have fit her better last summer in terms of length.
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 11:37 AM
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19. when I look back on old photos of us as kids I'm shocked by how short our dresses were
this was my 2 sisters and me back in the early 70s. I see the pictures and I think that there's no way in hell you wouldn't see panties if we bent over. Which I suppose is why they make ruffly panties for really little kids but this was in like 1st and 2nd grade. :blush:
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Rambis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 12:12 PM
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23. arse crack showing
a 3 year old girl at daycare had her arse hanging out every day for two years because her mother put her in low rider jeans. I felt sorry for her she looked like a street walker more days than not.
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 11:36 AM
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18. I never, ever wore skirts w/o shorts when I got to grade school
because I was always running around like a maniac on the playground, on the swing, bars, etc. You can't be on a swing in a skirt w/o the air pushing your skirt up around your face, you can't emulate all the female gymnasts if you're worried your panties will show!

Maybe she's just becoming more active on the playground (in a totally innocent way)?
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 11:41 AM
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20. Of course. That was standard operating procedure when I was a lass.
Although, I basically stopped wearing dresses when I was about six until I was about ... well, I never really went back to dresses.

Monkey bars are the enemy of shortsless dress wearing, as I recall.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 11:59 AM
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21. I've got a 6 1/2 year old daughter, and she is already boy crazy!
I am trying to decide whether she will go to military school, or the convent...
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 12:16 PM
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24. Why not both?
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 01:40 PM
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26. that was standard operating procedure when I was in 1st, 2nd & 3rd grades
My desire to wear shorts under my skirts diminished in direct proportion to my interest in using the playground equipment.
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coffeenap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 01:45 PM
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27. Most girls do this--a good decision. Stores carry leotard-fabric type
shorts/short leggings just for this. Plus, they are in style!! lol.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 05:33 PM
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30. Most of her clothes have something
like pants under a skirt or whatnot... however, this was a sundress my wife bought on an overseas business trip.
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Rosie1223 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 02:25 PM
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28. Just think if Britney had made that choice instead
:thumbsup: to your smart daughter
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