cookie_monster
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...for 10 year olds!!!!!
now maybe im really letting my fuddy duddy side show with this thread, but WTF?
ive just seen a thread on a local forum asking for ideas for a 10yr olds birthday party and the mother has posted up for quotes for a pamper party for these kids so they can have their hair and nails done with a mini make-up session. the prices have come back at about £20 a head not including nibbles.
is it just me who thinks this is just a bit wrong?
i have to be honest and say that when i was 10 i would have loved to have done something like that as i would have felt sooooo grown up. but should these kids be treated like mini adults so early? rightly so (god, theyll have a field day when they read this) my parents wouldnt have let me go to something like that at that age and i would quite rightly have hated them for not letting me go...but in the long run i dont think it would have been a bad thing.
i have to admit that i did start wearing makeup when i was at school, but i was probably about 13 and never really went in for heavy heavy make-up. i see some young lasses in sheffield out and about with more make up that i have probably worn in my life time slapped on 'just to go to the shops'. ive even seen teenagers wearing false lashes...which i have to admit has just made me giggle because they look so odd.
but its not just the ethics of dressing young kids up past their years, its charging £20 a head each....thats a lot of money even if theres only 5 of them!!!
ive had to resist the urge to have a rant on that thread and try and promote a more wholesome activity like having a jewellery party at my friends shop where they could be creative and make themselves a piece of beaded jewellery...a much more worthwhile usage of ther time rather than havng their nails painted!
i should also point out, that nobody has commented on the thread that this is just a bit wierd and extranvagant for a 10yr old either....im waiting to see if anything is said as people get up and realise theyre snowed in and spend all day on the pc! lol
*sigh* i feel better now.
x
now maybe im really letting my fuddy duddy side show with this thread, but WTF?
ive just seen a thread on a local forum asking for ideas for a 10yr olds birthday party and the mother has posted up for quotes for a pamper party for these kids so they can have their hair and nails done with a mini make-up session. the prices have come back at about £20 a head not including nibbles.
is it just me who thinks this is just a bit wrong?
i have to be honest and say that when i was 10 i would have loved to have done something like that as i would have felt sooooo grown up. but should these kids be treated like mini adults so early? rightly so (god, theyll have a field day when they read this) my parents wouldnt have let me go to something like that at that age and i would quite rightly have hated them for not letting me go...but in the long run i dont think it would have been a bad thing.
i have to admit that i did start wearing makeup when i was at school, but i was probably about 13 and never really went in for heavy heavy make-up. i see some young lasses in sheffield out and about with more make up that i have probably worn in my life time slapped on 'just to go to the shops'. ive even seen teenagers wearing false lashes...which i have to admit has just made me giggle because they look so odd.
but its not just the ethics of dressing young kids up past their years, its charging £20 a head each....thats a lot of money even if theres only 5 of them!!!
ive had to resist the urge to have a rant on that thread and try and promote a more wholesome activity like having a jewellery party at my friends shop where they could be creative and make themselves a piece of beaded jewellery...a much more worthwhile usage of ther time rather than havng their nails painted!
i should also point out, that nobody has commented on the thread that this is just a bit wierd and extranvagant for a 10yr old either....im waiting to see if anything is said as people get up and realise theyre snowed in and spend all day on the pc! lol
*sigh* i feel better now.
x
I dont think this is quite the same, but I remember one of my friends getting a bit funny about it. Little girls love to play with makeup, why shouldnt I get to laugh at them was my reply. I wouldnt pay £20 a head for any party activity let alone for a makeover, not even for myself. Just give em some cheap slap and let them play, they enjoy it more anyway...