| Parenting is labor intensive when you do it right. | | | | year old girls, that had a body that looked like she was |
| Have you heard about the results of the "Too Sexy | | | | 20-something. |
| Too Early" Study by the American Psychiatric | | | | One day when she came in for an appointment she |
| Association? | | | | was wearing a tight t-shirt that depicted a beach |
| Warning: You are about to read a RANT! | | | | scene across her chest, with a hotel in the foreground |
| And they needed a study to know this? | | | | with a sign that said "Rooms by the hour." |
| That's half the problem! | | | | I realized that she had no idea what she was |
| The fact that we needed a study to show that the | | | | communicating with her t-shirt, so I decided to have the |
| "sexualization" of young girls causes damage to them | | | | conversation about it with her mom present. Neither |
| is a symptom of the lack of common sense in our | | | | one of them had any idea what was being |
| culture. | | | | communicated, both of them blushed, and both were |
| So the American Psychiatric Association has | | | | very embarrassed. |
| determined that all the focus on pre-teens and young | | | | And this was a reasonably involved mom! |
| teens looking pretty and sexy is damaging. Well, that's | | | | My bottom line point is this: |
| a good start. I'd like to see what they are gonna do | | | | While the bodies of young teenage girls may have |
| about it. | | | | matured to the point of being able to have sex, in no |
| I remember a family I worked with years ago that had | | | | way are they emotionally, mentally, or spiritually |
| a 14 year old daughter. This was a girl, like many 14 | | | | prepared to have sex or to be sexualized. |