Tweens Affecting Children

Products are created daily and usually for all ages and both genders, but sometimes certain products can be pushed too early and cause many problems. Such as the products for pre-teens also known as tweens; they are kids who are not children but they are not teens yet, they are in the middle. Company produce these products such as toy that have a sexual innuendo or a certain type clothing style and makeup that is more suitable to a teen or an adult . As a reminder these tweens are eight to fourteen years old and they're wearing crop tops, push up bra, high heels and wearing makeup. But, this also happens to young boys, but in a different way. Instead of having sexy clothing, company produces products such as video games and images; which has content of a sexy female in it and showing off her "assets". For an instance in the Tony Hawk game, the only women in the game

This causes many social problems to our society and social problems to those children growing up as well. This gives young girls the idea that you have to be sexy in order to be cool or in order to be cool you have to be sexy and you need to have this sexy shirt and these shoes. The only way they can be themselves and be cute is to be sexy and it's the opposite, you don't have to look like that in order to be cool or sexy. The sad part is it's easy to convey this idea to young girls through ads and mostly teen celebrities. They show these young girls, you could be her, if you dress like her; this also allow girls to develop and mature faster than they should be. Also, let me reiterate on something i said before about boys, it gives them the message and the idea that women are sexualized objects. Instead of treating them and looking at their personality and who they are. It gives young boys a wrong and harmful meaning towards women and how they should be