So I was reading this absolutely disturbing article about parents that take their eight-year olds for pubic waxing as part of the general meme of parents living narcissistically through their kids with extravagant parties, designer clothes and spa trips, adult makeup and grooming, and other things best done long after puberty, if at all. The sexualization of youth — prepubescent youth — in general I think is one of the most negative trends in our culture, and the breakdown of the parent-child barrier with emotionally stunted parents narcissistically reliving their broken lives by forcing an adult-themed fetishized childhood on their kids is pretty vile stuff…
Kids naturally gravitate to “kids stuff” — building with blocks, stomping in the mud, making silly faces… They do not naturally in a healthy environment gravitate to obsessive grooming or haut couture clothing let alone sexual posturing — not to say little girls and little boys don't like playing dress-up, but that's very different; an element of fantasy and story telling more so than self-marketing. Kids certainly dream about being adults, and idolize adults and look to them for guidance as a part of growing up, but I don't believe adult behvaior brings them joy in any way. It's a pretty sad statement about the emotional maturity of parents — and I think the decay that urbanization and pervasive media has caused — when kids can't be kids.
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