[katiesue]

Like Wendy I also have a 10 year old girl. And it’s hard for them. It’s hard for me to find age appropriate clothing for her, especially as she’s tall so wears bigger sizes than other girls her age. I’ve heard her and her friends talking about who in their class is fat. She’s already mentioned her poky tummy. I really do think there is more pressure on them, and much earlier, then when we were kids.

I also overheard a conversation between two of her friends at choir one day. One girl claimed her clothes were from Ambercombie. The others started looking at her labels, and telling her in oh so snotty tones, that they were from WalMart. I sat there thinking these girls are 10 and they’re already ripping each other to shreds.

As a kid I always dressed oh so un-coolly. No way my mother was paying for anything cool. I spent half of 8th grade in high waters because I grew 3 inches and my mother decided I didn’t’ need new pants until I stopped growing. I couldn’t dress how I wanted until I started earning my own money and bought it all myself. And then it was what I thought was cool, which wasn’t usually what the rest of my peers thought was cool.


So far my 10 year old kind of goes along to the beat of her own drummer. She does like some of the stuff that’s trendy but she’ll do it her own way. And it doesn’t bother her if she’s different than a lot of her friends. She likes country music, which most of her friends don’t. And so far she’s ok with that. Jr. High and High School will be a different story.