Conceptions and misconception of an over sexualized generation

I had an epiphany today.  Lily and I took a shower today.  While waiting for me to finish drying off so I could dry her off she started dancing.  She wiggled and wiggled her butt in a way that if she were an adult would be sexual.  Only she is not an adult and it wasn't.  She was a 3 year old that was dancing.  There was nothing more to it than that.  It hit me that I've been very stupid and that my daughter just taught me something on accident.

A naked 3 year old is a natural phase and to be expected to some degree.  You add clothes to that child and suddenly it's wrong and sexual.  They're just clothes until we add meaning to them.  The problem with children's clothes these days isn't just the clothes.  It's our preconceived notion of what these clothes mean.  We put a meaning to them and shove them down our child's throat.

Lily's generation and the generation before hers is not over sexualized because of what they wear.  It's over sexualized because of the attitude we have about what they wear.  It's time we realize that clothes are just that...clothes.