Leg waxes for nine year olds?

If I remember correctly, even as a boy I had very little hair on my legs at 9 years old.  Under normal circumstances, it would seem that a leg-wax for a 9 year old girl would be simply unnecessary.

Is there something wrong with these little girls that they are so hirsute?   If so, Maybe they should get their legs waxed.  eeuww!

I was quite hairy as a little girl (well, I thought I was, but now that I have travelled a bit and met more people I realise I was nowhere NEAR as hairy as some kids/adults) and I was teased about it - by the boys, not the girls - but I didn’t start shaving my legs till year 8. And yes, that was at my mum’s suggestion, but I’d been thinking along the same lines at that point anyway. Mum was also the one who encouraged me to pluck my eyebrows (for which I am eternally grateful, they were huge!). At no point would Mum EVER had suggested waxing though - ow!! not to mention expensive....  So no, I wouldn’t encourage any future children of mine to get waxed - and definitely not till highschool… UNLESS they were especially hairy and it was seen frequently- ie: if they started dance or gym classes and thus wore leotards a lot - no point exposing them to potential ridicule. I know Mum only suggested shaving/plucking so I wouldn’t be picked on - maybe that’s why parents are getting their kids waxed??

I was desperate for a pair of thigh highs as a kid! I have no idea why… I also had a thing for long coats! Mum wouldn’t let me get any though - one day I saw the start of Pretty Woman and realised why she wouldn’t let me - didn’t figure the whole prostitute thing out, just knew when I saw Julia that they were only for grownups. Luckily being a grownup I get to wear them now! I object to the inference that black leather boots are for doms though Alison!

I do think children are oversexualised, but I also think there is a media beat up over some things - remember the storm over that girl on Brazil’s got talent a few weeks ago? Media stories claimed she was dressed and dancing provocatively? She was in a rehearsal leotard she no doubt wore in her dance classes (and a highnecked one at that) and didn’t do any gyrating -total beat up.

Im pretty sure the parents are getting pestered to let their gets get the beauty treatment.

I love how thats turned into an alarmest article claiming “kids being FORCED to get their legs waxed”. What crap.

I’m not sure if this constitutes sexualisation but it certainly tells the child they are not ok as they are, and need to start getting procedures to correct who they are.

Whether parents are getting pestered or not, 9 years old is too young to be thinking about hairy legs.  The girls are still in primary school.  Who thinks about things like that?  Parents should be saying no and setting an age limit for when the girls can start shaving/waxing and leave it at that.  Why does it seem so hard for parents to take charge?  Who are these spineless people?

This is a tricky and delicate topic in this day and age.

In terms of waxing - My sister started waxing her back at the age of 11. It was only in summer, when she was wearing bathers and such, because she was self concious about the amount of hair. To be honest, I would have been too lol. In that sort of circumstance, then yes, kids should be allowed to have it done. Just for vanity’s sake, or to be ‘grown up’ like mum, no way.

As for the kids clothes, I am of two minds. I have 6 week old twin girls. I think the little ‘rock chick’ outfit are adorable, and I don’t feel like it is sexualising my babies if I put them in clothes like this (I haven’t yet lol, they live in their growsuits lol). The problem for me lies in that sexualisation is in the view of everyone else. While I don’t think of kids in any sort of sexual way, and nor do most other people, it is that tiny minority of sick perverts out there who do that worries me with clothes like that. However, I am pretty sure if they can’t make the distinction between a toddler in ‘adult’ type clothes and a consenting adult, then the clothes are not going to make the pervert think any different.

It has nothing to do with sexualisation, kids are hitting puberty younger these days, that’s a fact, and for some girls they might get leg hairs that they don’t like at a young age, what’s the problem with them getting rid of them? If they’re being teased at school about it because they’re different (maybe genetics or early puberty), why can’t they?

I remember being about 12 when the comments started being made at school about who shaves their legs/under their arms and who doesnt. Mum wouldnt let me so I dug around, found her razors and did it anyway.

But at 9 I had no freaken idea that people even removed hair from their legs! I knew women removed it from under their arms and I always thought it was only so they didnt smell bad.

I think that the kids who bully others who are not ‘sexy’ have mums who are the typical vapid, self obsessed women that you see trying to imitate ‘Real Housewives of OC’ whilst judging every mother who dares to throw her hair into a ponytail, chuck on some flats and not look in the mirror before leaving the house. Monkey see, monkey do.

Once again, it should be the child’s responsibility to make their own decisions, the parents responsibility should be to educate the child of the consequences of their choices, not force a choice down upon them.

In my opinion..

I certainly intend to let my children be children (and, in fact, to actively discourage any activities I consider to be beyond their years).  It is disappointing to hear so many parents these days trot out the old “But you don’t understand what it’s like when everyone else lets their kids do it”.  Yes, I do understand what it’s like.  It’s hard.  Guess what?  Being a parent can be hard sometimes, but that’s our job.  As for leg waxing, once they have their own job and can pay for it with their own money they are welcome to have their legs waxed if they choose to.

Knee high boots are great for keeping your lower legs warm.. Consider them in the context of the whole outfit rather than just the boots.. Who has the dirty mind??

What is this world coming too now.

When are parents going to stand up to their children and use the word NO more often and allow the children to have a childhood.

The parents have too accept responsiblity for this and treat their children as children not adults.

I remember begging my mother to let me shave my legs when I was 11 - and that was 15 years ago. My friends had all started shaving theirs already. I imagine it is the 9 year old girls who wanted their legs hair-free…

Also, did anyone think that maybe taking their daughters for a leg wax was a way of deterring them from continuing hair removal...?  Shaving your legs doesn’t hurt - hence you want to keep doing it. Waxing hurts. So maybe the parents chose this option hoping their daughters wouldn’t want to do it again?  Just a though…

I know a little girl who is very hairy and 9 years old. Children bully her about her hairy arms and legs. Her arms are very hairy and her hair is black, her skin very pale.When she was in my life I promised her that when she turned 10 I would use gentle hair removal creme to do her arms. She was so happy to think she would no longer be bullied and teased.

The woman who created NADS hair removal did it for her daughters.

My daughter, now 33, had the hair in between her eyebrows waxed from age 9 or 10, by me. She no longer has a mono-brow because waxing eventually retards regrowth and all regrowth is less coarse. I do understand why some children who have a lot of hair growth would want this done.

I have a 10 year old girl and it is hard to find clothes for her, but I refuse to buy the cheap tacky clothes that make the girls look like $10 hookers. My daughter we are lucky so far agrees and doesn’t like that style and would usually be most comfortable in a pair of jeans. We were in Myers the other day checking out the sales and all the nice dresses stopped at size 8. After that it is pre-teen which is very trashy. We are lucky I sew and can alter or make her clothes. T-shirts we have to buy several sizes bigger to be long enough to cover her tummy and she is a short and very skinny girl so I don’t know how “normal” sizes cope. I do explain our choices in clothes to her so she can see our reasoning.

At 7 she started to worry about her size (thinking she was fat) - even though she is so skinny. Media is a lot to blame. We ended up changing her sport from gymnastics to Martial Arts and it was amazing how she gained self confidence and stopped worrying about her weight.

It is amazing to me what some parents let their daughters watch on DVD. So many of her friends have seen Twilight - this is not a girls movie. We are very strict on what she can watch and we explain why. She doesn’t want to see these movies that her friends watch because we explain about them. But is it any wonder girls are wanting to dress like adults (cheap and tacky ones), act like adults when parents don’t encourage them to be young and enjoy the simple pleasures of being young.

My daughter is already very hairy and I told her if she wants when she gets older I will allow her to get her legs waxed rather than shave as shaving makes it thicker. But I mean older - at least mid teens - about 15. That’s when I started shaving.

I wish I could say that I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this article, but sadly I can’t say that I’m surprised. Parents who are forcing their 9yr olds to get waxed should be shot, and those parents who are getting pestered by their kids to allow them to get waxed should stand up and be parents and put their foot down. I don’t care how hairy the kids are, or how pretty parents want their kids to be so they can show them off, no 9yr old should ever be exposed to that kind of adult behaviour. Why do they need silky smooth legs? Who’s touching them? Who’s looking at them? The only answer to both those questions is paedophiles. My daughter can decide about waxing when she’s mature enough- mentally and physically- and equally important when her skin isn’t so tender and easily damaged.
For some mind-blowing reason parents today have forgotten the importance of letting kids be kids. More importantly, not allowing them to grow up too fast. Who cares if they want to? YOU are the parent. Act like it.

While now young girls getting their legs waxed is seen as a bit wrong, in a few years it will be common.
I am often disgusted by the level of smut that adults find acceptable. Rather than keep it to themselves, they choose to expose their ‘humour’ to the public, including children. So children then naturally think sex is funny, dirty, and something of a joke.
This is reflected on some of the appalling t-shirts available for babies. For example a newborn onesie saying ‘all daddy wanted was a blow job’. Imagine explaining to an older child the meaning of that.
We don’t allow our children to watch Video Hits, although they do sometimes watch music videos that we approve of on Youtube. Our children don’t listen to most popular radio due to the constant sexual innuendo. We don’t allow our daughter to do jazz ballet, as we don’t feel it is right for a young girl to be doing pelvic thrusts and gyrate around the boys as we have seen in public jazz displays. When our daughter did classical ballet last year I was so relieved that makeup was discouraged- she is pretty enough as is!
As our children have gotten older we have encouraged them to be more modest, and maintain their privacy as much as possible, as well as respecting others’ privacy. Eg our boys are expected to wear shirts at the dinner table.
I do wonder how on earth teenage boys are expected to focus on their schoolwork when most girls are wearing skirts that barely cover their bottoms, with tops that stop several centimetres from their skirts.
I’m sure many people believe ‘it is my child, therefore my/their choice’. But why do children need to do everything adults do? Why not let kids be kids and not allow them to become ‘little adults’?

When you watch your mum, along with possibly aunties, cousins & sisters, all troop off to get these things done - or get them done in the home - what do you expect little girls to want done to them?

Yes they want to wear heels & make-up. But you tell me how you “play” leg waxing?

FWIW, my daughter is not even 9 yet and she pestered her mum into waxing her leg (with strips). Only once though for some reason (ignorant, not stupid)!

We went ‘too far’ a long time ago. Padded bikini’s for 7 year olds, boob jobs and botox for early teens...and the list goes on.

My mum had a hair issue when I was growing up, I was shaving in year 4 - so I was only 9 and every six weeks was leg waxing Sunday.  I hated it, but I had to suffer through it.  My mum wasn’t trying to sexualise me or make me grow up quickly, she just didn’t like hair!

By the time I was in year 12 the girls would have leg hair growing competitions in winter when we had to wear stockings. 

I still had the choice, and now I still do, I don’t think I grew up any quicker than other kids, if I did it was because I was an only child in a single parent family and my mother was a shift worker so I was my own babysitter of a night from when I started high school.  Its horses for courses but I think a 9 year old getting a leg wax isn’t a huge deal.