Last week I was pushing my daughter in the shopping cart as
we went down the toy aisle. She likes to look at (and ask for) all the Disney
princesses and Doc McStuffins toys. As we made our way through the toys and
came to the end of the aisle, I was shocked to see this doll:
Not only is this doll wearing a half shirt, but that is the
shortest skirt I have ever seen on a toy. This doll is showing more “skin” than
she has covered up, and the article of clothes with the most material are her
socks.
This was not in an adult toy store or with the pre-teen
stuff, but on the same aisle where my 4-year old finds cloth replicas of
cartoon characters. What is wrong with us?
I wonder how many fathers were shocked over Miley Cyrus’ VMA
performance, but would buy this doll for their little girls. I wonder how many
mothers think men are pigs for checking girls out, but they let their daughters
wear skirts just as short as this doll’s (and thus, giving those pigs something
else to check out).
This is how we justify what we do.
It’s just a toy.
This is the style
these days.
It’s just
entertainment.
And the message we send our kids is that these things are normal and OK. But it isn’t normal
to “twerk” in front of millions of people; it isn’t normal to ride naked on a
wrecking ball. It isn’t normal to leave more uncovered than covered. But we’re
telling our kids that it is.
This is the problem in our country. This is why Christians
are leaving the faith: We give them a Christian worldview on Sundays, but give
them a secular worldview the other six days of the week.
What we produced is a generation that has no problem calling
themselves Christian while living like the devil. This did not come from
professors or the “wrong crowd;” it came from compromising parents sending
mixed messages to their children.
Parents, I beg you to evaluate the message you are sending
your children. We are not perfect, and that is not what I am calling for. But
we need to strive to set a clear, consistent example of godliness. I would
rather my children be right in God’s eyes than in the world’s eyes.
That means we might have to say no to the dress, or in this
case, the complete lack of it, on the doll.
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