Proms proms and more proms

Wha? Education starts when you leave University.

Oh wow. The British Empire is Annihilating itself.

 

Only the girls? That's unfair.

 

I was thoroughly disturbed when I went to the market the other day and saw a little miniature shopping cart made for children with a plastic flag on it that said, "Customer in Training."

If I had a seven year old and she wanted to go to a mini-prom I'd let her go, but I wouldn't indulge her with lots of bullshit to make sure she's the most glamourous glitter-lipgloss faced child at the thing. I imagine the whole ordeal as very 'Desperate Housewives in training.'

Then again, our grandparents would have sworn just looking at Elvis' dancing hips on the black and white tv would have made their daughters pregnant.
Times they are a changin'..

Hopefully if I have kids I'll be successful enough to pique their interest in things like, say, the natural world and books and artistic endeavors so that functions such as the one you speak of are null.

 

We used to have "discos" in primary school.

 

I don't really see a problem with it. So long as it is low key and is just like a "big dance" where all the kids go and have fun, the kids would have fun and enjoy it. The problem would arise if all of the kids and parents saw it as a "I'm the prettiest/handsomest of them all" contest.

What's wrong with that? They used to have things like that when I was little at a few stores and I LOVED it. It made me feel special and important. I think it's a nice thing for kids to use. It's a chance for them to have fun out in public in an otherwise boring place. People really overreact to consumerism and think it is the huge evil, when it really is not (that isn't to say I don't have problems with it though).

 

Why is that legal, but paedophile web-rings are not?

 

I loved those shopping carts dude.

 

Shopping trolleys were good for bumper karts.

 

It's an untapped market! /s

Fuck this society.

 

I'm not being naiive about this. I see nothing wrong with it because it is such a young age that kids won't have the capacity to see this as anything of superior social importance. They will treat it like a normal fun thing. Besides, not everyone is going to grow up thinking that all of these materialistic things are at the forefront of life. People that already have the inate capcity to grow up like that are going to be that way. It also isn't like the kids are forced to do this.

 

I just don't understand why the boys were excluded. That's the most disturbing part.

 

The whole idea is absurd.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ar-olds-800-dresses-limos-make-fake-tans.html

 

Nothin is wrong with it if you like the idea of being a consumer first and foremost. By all means.. Have at it. I, however, am creeped out at the idea of breeding consumers.

 

I think people should be allowed to grow up before having a prom, or anything else that typically does not happen during a particular age. I laugh when I see children being put into a limo for a birthday party; what exactly are you trying to teach them? I wish society and its members would stop setting youth up with unrealistic expectations and perceptions of the world and how it works. These youth turn into priviledged adults, who expect similar treatment... it's not what I would expect from a mature adult population!