I have to say – I have a 13 year old daughter, who looks like she is 18 (not by what she wears, etc.) she is 5’3 and wears a 34c bra (which I think she may have gone up) and wears a size1/2, 3/4 jeans. So she is built like a 17-18 year old, she has to shop in the Jr. dept. So you can imagine what her body looks like. In a bathing suit she has a body of Pamela Anderson, I have forewarned my husband when he sees her in a bikini this year, he is going to flip and want her to put on a big t-shirt to cover up. I hate the fact that people will look at my daughter and say “OMG she is only 13, etc.” and I can just imagine what is going through their head and I think they associate it with what she is wearing, which by all means, she never shows her belly (if it does end up showing its only about 1” above her pants, and because it shrunk in the dryer) – she wears normal t-shirts with the glitter writing, etc. just like all the other girls wear and what is in style, but it just happens that since she is so big on top that the Jr. size t-shirt’s fit her not tight but “form fitting”. And look at the models they use for the clothes on girls like Paris Hilton, no chest, etc.
You know she was very comfortable with her body, until parents starting looking at her (i.e. pool party) with the “OMG” comments. Now she is telling me that if she gets any bigger she is getting reduction and she doesn’t care how young she is. So I have to keep on reinforcing how she just developed a lot earlier than the other girls, and how she was never ashamed of her body before and she shouldn’t be know.
Anyways… to get to thong point, my daughter does wear them (she has 3 pairs) when she wears her low rise jeans, and that’s it, otherwise she wears bikini underwear, but whatever she wears they don’t show above her pants and she is extremely cautious of it, and at first I had a fit that she wanted to buy the thong, but she told me about some stories of the boys in her school (Jr. high) if they say a panty line they girl will get picked, on, comments made to her throughout the day, which I can see boys that age doing, and noticing stuff like that. So if they wear the thong, that does not show above the pants, and no panty line, no issue of anything being said from the boys, and being tormented. This age is hard enough never mind of some boy making it harder. So because she has a few pairs and wears them with whatever cloths that will show a panty line does that make her a “**ut” NO. She is an honor student, a cheerleader for school, involved with community service, volunteers at the town library. If the daughter is responsible and MATURE enough to be cautious of it not showing and the only reason why she is wears it is so that the line doesn’t show, I don’t think it is harmful.
Sorry this is long i hope you don't think it is wrong for me to have Bought some for her, but we each have our own opinions.
Lori
