I saw the above picture on Facebook, and it was a photo taken of two children who were attending their Kindergarten prom.
Call me old school but I do wish our kids could just be kids. I understand the premise of celebrating a child moving up from kindergarten on to bigger and better things in elementary school, but having a prom might be a bit much.
When we have graduations for little children in our opinion the ceremony teaches them that when they work hard their achievements are celebrated.
Graduation encourages them to keep on swimming, set a goal and knock it out of the park. Additional prom can also be seen as an innocent celebration, and an opportunity to celebrate with kids as they move ahead.
The problem I have is everything that comes with Prom. The dresses, the fashion show, the lights, the red carpet. Prom’s have almost become closely akin to a celebrity attending the Met Gala where everyone wants to out do the other person.
When you bundle all of that and place it on the shoulders of a five year old, things get a bit hairy for me.
That prom dress pictured above is highly inappropriate for a child and even though the little boy looks dapper in his outfit the whole thing is just way too much for them at that age.
We say let the kids enjoy, recess, naps, toys and everything that makes childhood special give them something to look forward to in the future.
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In a world that is highly sexualised we have to work overtime to keep our children engaged in what is appropriate for them so that as they mature they can gradually understand the world they will be living in.
Many parents have made the decision to have their children miss the kindergarten prom for the very reasons I have stated. What say you? Is prom in kindergarten going to far?
Oh now this is just waaaay too much!!!! #hellnawtito
To each its own but the way they are dressing these little kids is ridiculous
The outfit is to much they can’t even spell or do math
I’m lost
Prom for Kindergarten??? That is too much. Whatever happened to letting the kids be kids??
Wtf kids can’t be kids no more
Too much. IJS…
Yes it is, and so is that dress for a kindergartener. SMH
I think this not a good idea
This is ridiculous and shameful. Parents you have to know and do better!!!!
Too much, too soon.
These kids are not little anymore , just miniature images of parent.
Lord help us
Let the babies be babies their time will come JUST STOP IT!!!!!
How about a father-daughter dance before we start pairing our little ones up like they grown.
me neither!
My daughter had prom in head start and it was nice. She will not be allowed to attend another till her junior year in high school but it was fun and cute! I was not living through my kid and I’m a older parent.
What is the point?
Yes to much. Don’t grow kids up b4 their time
Prom ok…that prom dress HELL NO!!!!!
That’s too much work. It would be like dressing up your dolls! Lol.
Noooo its cute
so wrong !
This is too much!! These young children are being put out there for the sake of the adults. What happened to Jr and Sr prom, only? We are making are children targets for this crazy world we live in!! Let them be children as long as they can!! STOP MAKING THEM OUT TO BE THE ADULTS!!
We always go to far….
Nowwww… I see…..lol
Wayyyy toO much!! Again let kids be kids. Parents(younger parents) needing attention & can’t wait for their child’s turn in the high school spotlight. It’s ridiculous,…smh!
My yeyebrow is raised. That’s all I got to say.
YES! SOME LITTLE KIDS BE LOOKING too grown.
This is to much there will be plenty time for this
Where does the money go?
Oh hell no. Next it’s going to be baby shower in elementary school
Lawd! Let the kids be kids for as looooonnnnnng as they can! Gesh!
I think that the dress is to much for a 5 year old, but the idea of giving children “formals” or “proms” to attend at a young age is not such a bad idea. They are seeing the older kids in dresses and tux, and they want too dress up also. We as a black culture really don’t have events that allow children to dress in ball gowns, fancy dresses, suits, or tuxedos, util someone gets married (and that’s a big if in my area). I have a daycare and the main dress up iteams are the ball gowns from when I was a child (when i bring then out), other than that I have every day attire and professional attire to be dress up in. It is a one time event as a child and here your next prom won’t be until your junior year of high school, everything else is called a dance. A child will not remember this in a few weeks when they are outside running around playing. We as adults need to stop taking everything to heart and relax and learn how to be like a child again……..Share a chocolate milk and get over it…….
So you simply tell them, they will go to formal dances like that when they are in high school, instead of letting them have what the bigger kids have! Do you want to buy your 5 year old a car if your teenager gets one, too!
Are these people serious?!
Let children be children
So idiotic
What was that mother thinking was she thinking when she dress a 5 year old I’d like that let the child be a child my god what is wrong without parents
No brains and no common sense!
The kids prom is the same as when parents do the beauty pageants for kids
There is no point for children this young to have a prom.
People will do anything for attention even at the cost of there kids.
Absolutely not! They well get to experience prom in high school,let kids be kids instead of little adults
That is ridiculous. They need to be learning their ABCs, not how to date
They are literally sexualizing a 5 year old girl.
A back-out dress for a five year old…REALLY! They do not need a prom. A dress up day for graduating would be appropriate.
Remember cute little dresses with Pinafores? That’s the kind of dress up a 5 year old girl should be wearing, not scoop back, full length formals!
Tooooo much!
Wow REALLY???????????
Na couldn’t be mine just my opinion
Um yes
OMG – playing dress-up is one thing, but geez – just let ’em by 5 year-olds for heaven’s sake.
And BTW – that dress is ridiculous for a child of that age. Trust me, you will be sending them off to “real prom” before you know it, and if you started them with this crap in kindergarten, you’re going to be trying to figure out why your child got pregnant at 15.