OK, it's official: I'm old.
I took my kids, ages 9 and 6, to a local store to check out costume ideas. It took me about three seconds of glancing through the offerings of little girl costumes to realize the truth — I'm old.
"Mommy," my 9-year-old daughter says while glancing at a tummy baring, barely there genie costume, "maybe I can be a genie."
"Not wearing that," I snapped at her. And what right-minded woman wouldn't respond the same way? Some of the costumes for girls ages 8-12 looked more like something you'd see walking up and down the street of Vancouver, B.C.'s less-than-savory side. I was struck by how quickly costumes could go from frilly, pink and princess to vampy villain with very little on. Sorry, 9-year-olds and thigh-high stockings are just, well, WRONG.
Yeah, OK, I remember having fights with my mother when I was my daughter's age about wearing long, dangly earrings. "What's the problem?" I would ask her. I thought she was just being old-fashioned for not letting me wear them.
Who's old-fashioned now? Am I becoming a prude? When did kids start growing up so fast, and who's to blame?
The tricky choice for children’s Halloween costumes
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