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Pondering Childhood

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I've been thinking  about childhood lately. It seams like the world wants kids to become adults almost as soon as they start loosing their teeth. The one place that's selling bikini tops at first aimed at little girls as young as five, they have now since changed the wording. They are padded to give an illusion of having a chest. I ask why do they want to push the more grown up image on to them at such a young age? Childhood is suppose to be playing games, making friends, using your imagination and learning about some things slowly ,very slowly. Childhood is suppose to be the innocent time of their lives. But to me it looks like they want children, especially little girls it seams like, to be as grown up as fast as possible. Make them look as sexy as possible as soon as possible. I just don't get it. I have two girls myself, who are now in their twenties, and one thing I didn't want them to deal with is worrying about how their bodies looked. I just told them th...