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STORY: Daughters Might Be Learning Body Shaming From Their Moms Besides the mom of a 3-year-old who says she has “no problem with underwear showing,” several parents that I consider to be progressive do require shorts under dresses on their 4-year-olds, with reasons ranging from “protection while playing” to “underwear is private and shouldn’t be seen by the whole playground.” Another mom says it’s a rule for her 6-year-old because it “gives her the freedom to be as active as she wishes without showing off her underpants.” She adds, “Personally, I don’t want to see the underpants of any kid, or adult, that I’m not in a familial (or familiar) relationship with.” She said she couldn’t care less, and so now, into first grade, we’ve continued as we always have, and while the playground-panties police are still out in force, she seems happily immune.īut I started asking around recently, in person and on Facebook, and quickly discovered that I am in the minority on the issue. Though my daughter’s response was, “So what?” she was confused, and so later we explained that some people are shy about underwear showing, but that we were okay with it if she was. “I can see your underwear!” she shouted in the face of my girl, who blissfully hung upside down during recess, her dress covering her face.

It frankly (naïvely?) never even crossed our minds to worry about public displays of underpants until the end of kindergarten last year, when another girl nudged us along.

Upshorts oops free#

It’s an issue I’ve thought about a lot lately, given that my 6-year-old daughter adores both dresses and monkey bars, and that she has been taught by her other mom and me to feel unequivocally free and unashamed about her body. There’s an issue heating up on playgrounds, and forgive me for mentioning it, because it concerns unmentionables - girls’ underpants, to be exact, and whether they should or should not be allowed to show when dresses fly up on the monkey bars.