Kids Growing Up Too Fast ? Growing Kids ? Read this great article on Widdlykinks.com about Kids Should Be Kids and dressed in Children's Clothes appropriate to their age, not as mini adults!
Kids Should Be Kids
Is it just me or is there an increasing tendency to dress children as mini adults? The Telegraph recently featured a comment from Francesca Fothergill who wrote “As a mother of a seven-year-old girl, I struggle to find appropriate clothing. Most items sit somewhere between pink baby doll and all-out prostitute”.
I whole heartedly agree with Francesca’s comments, kids should not wear high heals, g-strings and cropped tops and why o why should I pay lots of money for tops with logos (I do not want my children to represent an advertising board). They are kids for such a short time, so let them be dressed as kids!
Also being a typical working mum specializing in multi-tasking (a concept my husband is still to discover), I don’t particularly like shopping with children in tow. When I finally undertake what is supposed to be “our favourite past time activity” I end up spending more time bribing my children than I actually do looking round the shops. In my pre-kids era I would have sworn never to resort to bribery; - but hey ho we all learn!
So born out of my frustration with the choice on the UK market, I went back to Denmark from where I originate and tracked down suppliers and purchased suitcases full of children’s clothes. I could well be accused of being biased, but I have always admired the Scandinavian ability to dress their kids in cool, funky, traditional clothes without straying from the fact that kids should be dressed as kids and not as mini adults.
So here we are a few months down the line (and a spare room full of children’s clothes) my web site www.kidsshouldbekids.co.uk is now up and running. I have no experience of the clothing industry (my Saturday job in NEXT had not provided me with any inside industry knowledge) and even when I exaggerate, my technical knowledge could be written on the back of a stamp.
But the site is now live, and all the hard work has been worth it because I so passionately believe that kids should be dressed as kids and not mini adults. I will continue on this mission of mine in the aim to provide parents with not only a convenient way of purchasing children’s clothes (gone are the days of dragging screaming kids round the shops) but also in the aim to provide an alternative to the worrying trend of inappropriate children’s clothing.
I would love to hear other thoughts on this matter and should any mums be out there with an idea of starting a commercial website please do not hesitate to get in touch. I will be more than happy to share my ups and downs.
Malene Stanley
www.kidsshouldbekids.co.uk
