I wanted to do something light and in amongst my pondering something fell into my lap.
“Heelarious” is a new product on the market, stilettos for babies/ toddlers.
I am not joking.
It’s no secret that I don’t know fashion, but please. Heels are bad enough for grown women. Sure we all love a pair of shoes that make our legs look great – even I’m not immune to that, but that doesn’t mean they are something we should be encouraging kids to wear.
The toddler in the footage I saw was crawling with hideous pink squooshy shoes with inch high heels. When the little girl tried to stand, the heel squished down and her feet were turned seriously in, it would be like trying to walk with a stone in your shoes.
We are in the midst of several world wide problems including poor self image in so many of our girls, and women, and here these mothers are perpetuating the problem. When we start pushing image on girls so young (and don’t for a second think it all goes over their heads, there are always sisters and other kids watching) what message do we expect our girls to take through to the awkward tween and teenage years, let alone adulthood.
For heavens sake let our kids be kids.
An interviewer asked one of the creators of she was making a punch line of her child because the kids wouldn’t understand the name. She claimed no, but I think he had a point.
Don’t let vanity put babies in the torture devices we all know heels to be. There will be plenty of time for that later.
Image isn’t everything, surely enjoying childhood is more important.
“Heelarious” is a new product on the market, stilettos for babies/ toddlers.
I am not joking.
It’s no secret that I don’t know fashion, but please. Heels are bad enough for grown women. Sure we all love a pair of shoes that make our legs look great – even I’m not immune to that, but that doesn’t mean they are something we should be encouraging kids to wear.
The toddler in the footage I saw was crawling with hideous pink squooshy shoes with inch high heels. When the little girl tried to stand, the heel squished down and her feet were turned seriously in, it would be like trying to walk with a stone in your shoes.
We are in the midst of several world wide problems including poor self image in so many of our girls, and women, and here these mothers are perpetuating the problem. When we start pushing image on girls so young (and don’t for a second think it all goes over their heads, there are always sisters and other kids watching) what message do we expect our girls to take through to the awkward tween and teenage years, let alone adulthood.
For heavens sake let our kids be kids.
An interviewer asked one of the creators of she was making a punch line of her child because the kids wouldn’t understand the name. She claimed no, but I think he had a point.
Don’t let vanity put babies in the torture devices we all know heels to be. There will be plenty of time for that later.
Image isn’t everything, surely enjoying childhood is more important.
1 comment:
Ridiculous idea! I saw a piece on t.v. about the ladies who make these baby high heels. I know they think it's cute, but when we already have grade school girls dressing like streetwalkers, and child pornography running rampant, I'd say we need to move in the opposite direction, not perpetrate grown-up glamour on crawling infants now. God doesn't give us babies for our own amusement; they're a responsibility and they belong to Him. Let's celebrate their childhood. Adult fashions and image issues will be a part of their lives soon enough.
Diane L. Harris
http://www.steppingintothelight.net
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