A friend of mine from another networking site tagged a note for me to read about her recent experience at a department store. This is absolutely shocking, disgusting and made me throw up in the back of my mouth a little!

I'm sharing it here, because of the many moms/dads on here and my friend is in the process of preparing a petition (which I will post when it's ready) and the more voices we have the better!

Please read and LEND YOUR VOICE TO THE CAUSE! Whether you're a parent or not, if this sounds disturbing to you, which I imagine it would to everyone, please feel free to comment and join the cause!

Here it is:

Ok, my 2 & 1/2 year old has done incredibly well with potty training, and today was her 1 month of absolutely no accidents (except at night, and those don't count right now)...To celebrate, I took her to the department store and let her pick our her very own big girl panties...She picked up a pack and handed them to me, and they looked adorable...One pair had little kittens on them, one had stars and hearts on them...blah blah...well, when I turned the package over to make sure it was the right size...The little diagram of the panties kind of shocked me. It looked like the panties were a thong. Ok, I flipped the package over, and it didn't say anything of the kind on the front...well, I was a bit curious, so I opened the package, and was absolutely shocked when I took a pair of panties out of the package, and it was a thong. What the HELL are people thinking to manufacture a THONG for a 2 year old?!?!?!? I noticed a sales girl standing not far away and asked her how well those panties sold...she said that they're hard to keep in stock. Again, ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? She said that thongs are extremely popular and they were a part of a new genre of clothing called "prosti-tots" I'm sorry, but what the HELL?!? First and foremost, I'm shocked, angry and disappointed that people think it's cute to dress their little girls like tramps. I'm completely disgusted that someone actually coined a phrase that puts prostitute and toddler in the same word. To be quite honest, I'm just plain pissed that any self respecting parent would think it's cute, that it's harmless and that it's acceptable...I read reports in the paper (On police beat) about people having their children taken away for child endangerment or neglect...Isn't dressing a little girl, little more than a baby, like a tramp, a form of child endangerment? This world abounds with perverts and sickos, and the clothing out there that people put on their children only encourages these pervs in their behavior. Don't get me wrong...what ever action a perv or sicko takes to harm a child is entirely on them, but where is the parents responsibility in making sure their child is dressed as a CHILD??? I'm not saying cover your little girl from head to toe, or shroud her completely, but COME ON!!!

Update: If you're a Facebook user, my friend started the cause, "Parents Against the "Prosti-Tot" Clothing Movement." Also at MySpace: http://www.causes.com/myspace/causes/225368?e=679ca242&recruiter_id=30878541

Please come join the cause and show your support! Thanks!