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It’s a topical debate at the moment. Pole dancing for three-year-old girls, padded bras in supermarkets, breast enhancement surgery for a six-year-old girl’s birthday present. It is madness gone extremely mad.<\/p>\n
The sleaze and sexualisation of children, particularly girls, annoying begins from birth. It causes parents who don’t want their little girl growing up like a slapper no end of problems.<\/p>\n
An innocent hour of children\u2019s breakfast television will have young girls craving an enhanced Barbie, Lelli Kelly sparkly over-priced shoes coming with a make-up kit and is Disney Princess really any better than Bratz?<\/p>\n
But coming along with a solution is journalist Tanith Carey, with her super-fantastic book Where Has My Little Girl Gone? It really should be issued to new parents with the Bounty Pack such is its usefulness. The book is written in easy sections allowing parents to pick up and put down as time allows.<\/p>\n
Tanith knows all the danger areas and has a positive solution to side-step them, deal with them head on, or distract.<\/p>\n
From reading the section Growing Up in the X-Rated Society, Tanith has also had that horrifying moment in Toys\u201dR\u201dUs. The one where you realise there are three dreadful aisles packed to the roof with pink, furry junk and dolls with big breasts and blow-job mouths. Tanith notes how they make Barbie look like a ‘natural beauty’ in comparison.<\/p>\n
Do any of us really want this for our little girls? Once the trap is fallen into it spirals from there. It seems we don’t have a choice once they get to school and want to fit in with the ‘It’ crowd.<\/p>\n
For those girls who can’t live without Barbie dolls, Tanith suggests getting around this by\u00a0playing games where Barbie ditches the mobile phone and becomes a scientist or politician.<\/p>\n
She also wisely advises buying basic toys that are not linked to movie franchises, allowing children to develop their own creativity. This advice is of equal value to parents of boys owning so many toy Daleks they live in a Genesis Ark.<\/p>\n
Two major issues \u2013 the use of Facebook and mobile phones are covered. As is the danger of fitting into school yard cliques, popularity issues, wanting to look thin and sexy at all times, and of course, the you are not going out wearing that moment.<\/p>\n
In less than 200 pages, Tanith will help parents take back control of parenting from the advertisers and the vacuous.<\/p>\n
Where Has My Little Girl Gone? Will help parents of girls raise a well-grounded daughter who will\u00a0 grow up in a sexualised world, without falling victim to peer pressure or aspire to marry a footballer<\/p>\n
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