Comments on: Bare essentials

By: Milla

Milla — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:53:34 +0000

I love L! Not sure about the oxen – we used to pretend everything was a variant on chicken – flying chicken or swimming chicken (tuna) etc. As for the photos, hmmm, have you seen facebook recently? I’ve a 13 year old son (how did THAT get here so quick!?!?) have you seen the way young girls present themselves? Shocking, sub-Nuts fodder.

By: Dulwich Divorcee

Dulwich Divorcee — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:03:25 +0000

Glad you’re all for it. Isn’t it awful that it affects even girls of 7? I remember being horrified when my daughter came home at 9 worrying about her weight! All started by a girl in the class whose own mother was weight-obsessed. Horrifying. Anything we can do to counter it is good in my book

By: Dulwich Divorcee

Dulwich Divorcee — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:02:15 +0000

I’m definitely with you on that, CJ. I find magazines very confusing these days and do actually feel a bit low after reading them. Better to pick them up in the hairdressers every now and then! xx

By: Dulwich Divorcee

Dulwich Divorcee — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:00:55 +0000

Do you really like oxen? They look like walking tables, I think. Much prefer sheep, they feel like living carpets. Chacun a son goat, I suppose

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:30:05 +0000

I think it’s a great idea. My daughter is 7 and is already completely bombarded by unattainable images. I want her to enjoy her childhood and be happy, she shouldn’t even be giving a second thought to how she looks! Good for Bare Essentials!

By: Peggy @ Perfectly Happy Mum

Peggy @ Perfectly Happy Mum — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:25:06 +0000

You are lucky to have such a great and fun friend! Like you say everyone should have a L in their live. And I am sure she will cry reading this, I would

By: Crystal Jigsaw

Crystal Jigsaw — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:24:52 +0000

I very rarely buy women’s mags because they are usually full of crap. Being a rather voluptous woman myself, I get fed up of seeing stick thin models wearing ridiculously expensive designer clothes, looking about 20, then advertising moisturiser for the more mature woman again using a model who is about 20 yrs old, has no blemishes or wrinkles whatsoever. It’s all very unreal. And then there’s the celebs caught unawares, trying to live their “normal” lives as they walk with their family through town, or holiday in the caribbean with cellulite and skimpy bikinis. Live and let live I say.

CJ xx

By: exmoorjane

exmoorjane — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:19:20 +0000

Good for Essentials. Though, to be fair, I do think quite a few mags are now waking up to the fact that we really REALLY don’t want to see (and,more to thepoint, we REALLY don’t want our children to see) anorexic looking models.
And yes, everyone needs an L in their lives…
Like the ox by the way but *sob* I DO like oxen….way more than stupid sheep actually….
Great post.