Some parents are failing to protect their children from sexually explicit Tv programs and sexualised dressing that may severely damage their childhood.  Children and teens are now in the grip of premature sexualisation that is causing severely damaging effects to a whole new generation of people.  Children need to be protected from sexual messages that they don't understand.  I think many parents are not okay with what their ten or twelve year-olds are wearing, but they're reluctant to say anything.  A lot of adults think that they're only ones with the problem.  However they must empower themselves, children's lives are being cut short prematurely.  It takes a strong parent to say no when everyone else is saying yes.  We must say no more as children don't have the cognitive or psychological understanding to realise the impact of premature sexualised behaviour.

What does sexy clothes for children consist of? Like Tummy bearing shirts? or just things like short shorts and spagetti straps?

I think its more important to focus on young teens and preteens with sexy attire than it is for children. They're more likely to be exposed to sex than children. Its also the cool thing for preteens to date an "older boy". Which most of the time leads them to sex at a very young age. But children are still kind of sheltered from all this, not as much as we'd like them to be but still more than young teens.

It's up to the parents to keep their children young and focused on age appropriate activities. All children and preteens want to grow up fast and act older than they really are.  However there is nothing good that can come to this.  They're just putting themselves in positions that they're not mature enough to handle and it's the parent's fault. 

Children are not taught to treat their bodies as sacred. They are not taught that losing control of your body and your mind will have consequences, maybe today and maybe years from now.  They are not taught that being strong in mind and spirit is always the best way - let your friends lose control, but "you" stay in control always.  Kids today see valor in trying to escape what they deem to be unfair. It's not just disadvantaged children, either. It's sad.

Children also want to be exactly like their friends. Whatever their friends do they want to so the same. If their friends dress in a certain way so should they and theyre "losers" if they dont. Thats what my little sister considers herself if we dont by her an abercrombie sweater since "all of her friends have one". She went through a stage too wher she just wanted to wear strapless shirts. We thought that this was way too inapropriate for a child her age and she was crying saying shes a "geek because all her friends wear them and she doens't".

It think it's best to set rules ahead of time so that kids won't try to argue with what's appropriate and what's not.  It should be 100% up to the parent.. end of story.  Sometimes debates take place between parents about what's appropriate, and that should never happen.  I remember when a couple years ago, boy tanktops were in style, and my mom wouldn't allow me to wear them because they were see through, bc they were only meant to be worn as under shirts.  And another big thing was shirts that exposed mid drifts.  They were out of dress code and even though they were cute, they're still not appropriate to a lot of people.  Girls think wearing clothes that are in style is going to make them cool and fit in, while boys view these exposing clothes as an invitation that a girl is wanting attention.

Thats very true alesandra about how boys interpret clothing different than girls. I went through a stage wehere I loooved revieling clothing, I thought it was so stylish and I wanted to dress like that. My parents wouldn't let me so I'd take clothes with me and change at school in the bathroom. The boys in my school didn't respect me much because of that, they would be very touchy and just total pricks and I hated that. As I got out of that stage and I started dressing more conservative the boys stopped doing that, I got so much more respect and I loved it.

But back to the kids topic, I do agree that they should not be allowed to wear revieling clothing, it should be a "No" from the start otherwise they'll get used to dressing up like that and they will always want to no matter what age.

It doesn't look right for kids to wear sexy clothes and clothes resemble a lot of a persons personality. If your child is wearing slutty clothes what if she grows up and behaves that way. children should just dress like children.