Pamper parties for children

I think it’s awful I hate this idea of teaching children that these things are important no wonder younger and younger women are having all the dreadful treatments and face lifts lips, cheeks, chins, and hideous eyebrows done it’s a very very short walk from pampering feet, hands, faces to make up and more
Let children be children till at least 13 plus take them to a show, a meal out, a swimming party, a play park a bouncy castle

Yes it may be JUST one party but then the best friend will have one then the next best friend etc etc and before you know it the mothers are all outdoing each other in nails, makeup, face masks parties

I think that nowadays going bowling, watching a film etc are normal every day/week occurrences.

Surely a party should be different and special?

JaneJudge

I hardly think a foot spa and a bit of nail polish is the work of the devil for goodness sake

No but whole parties for little girls spent on manicures and facials and foot spas and pedicures and drinking pretend prosecco is a bit sad.
At that age they should be playing made up games or watching a children's film or messing around at a bowling alley or being entertained by a conjurer or all the other things available for kids enjoyment.

That's my view anyway.
Children grow up too quickly nowadays.

JaneJudge

I hardly think a foot spa and a bit of nail polish is the work of the devil for goodness sake

I said Beauty pageants are the work of the devil. An entirely different thing to pamper parties.

JaneJudge

I hardly think a foot spa and a bit of nail polish is the work of the devil for goodness sake

Agree JaneJudge a one off fun time will hardly lead to a life of depravity.
Sounds like it's all kept in reasonable limits,

I agree JaneJudge

I wear makeup and have regular manicures and pedicures for me, not my husband or anyone else.

I hardly think a foot spa and a bit of nail polish is the work of the devil for goodness sake

I've never worn make up or nail varnish to attract men. I wear it because I look better with it than without it. Presumably women who work in all female environments either don't wear any. makeup, or wear it on the off chance that the caretaker will pop in or they might get a male visitor.
My DGS sometimes has his nails painted.

An odd pamper party won't do much harm. My GD went to one but her own party organised by her mum all the girls dressed up as exotic fruits and they had just as much fun.
Beauty pageants are the work of th devil and are worse than Miss World.

Im not very clued up on anything pamper, however, I don't like some of the clothing for girls. Far too grown up for some. Children have an even shorter childhood now, it seems.

You are welcome Germanshepardsmum! Yes! I agree!

My daughter had one as a 11 Yr old. She is 30 now. They have been doing the rounds for years.
Obviously I'm a bad mother but they are fun at that age all products I remember all suitable for age group, just nails, hair and skin care and make up advice. Great fun for them.
All little girls invited had it clearly annotated on invite what was going to happen, no complaints from other mums.
They certainly didn't leave looking like pantomime dames.

Thanks Audi. Some posters may think I’m some tutting, prudish old fogey from the back of beyond who has lead a sheltered. Far from it and I wear makeup every day but loathe it, or nail polish, on children. I have always viewed it as sexualising them and thought it looks common. As we get older we may only use cosmetics to please ourselves but when we were young and single we used them to look more attractive to men didn’t we?

Each to their own I guess - if it is a one-off bit of fun, then I doubt it will do any harm.

Can't stand all this pampering lark myself - my DDs have stopped asking me to spa days because they know what I think of them!

Yuk! Why would a little 9 year old have a pamper party, let them be children for Christ’s sake! Foot spas, manicures! I think it’s more about what the adults want! Totally agree with every word from Germanshepardsmum posts

Thanks GSM. I like photography.

Well done and how lovely.

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When I was 16 I was at an event where, unbeknownst to me and my friends, Miss something or other was being chosen from all the attendees. I was selected. A few months later a letter arrived inviting me to attend the national final. My parents rightly put a stop to it.

I cannot imagine any parents entering children as young as 4 into these contests, spending thousands of dollars, and travelling all over the place to keep attending them.
Very sad life for the children.

Will check out the paper clip thanks GG

A child forced into this kind of thing will grow up with very skewed values.

This is a long way from little girls playing with their mums nail polish though, so here’s to childhood.

Of course, and just what are they putting these children through. I hesitate to say abuse but actually it is really.
Setting them to fail because most of them will, there’s only one winner after all; to believe they are not pretty enough, not good enough.
Very shallow and quite inexplicable. Some people have strange values.

A paedophile’s dream.