Little Girls Wearing High Heels

Children just want to feel pretty and have attention. When seeing parents doing this, also with help of magazines and everything else it influences them to want to wear heels. I have a few pairs, but I like my shoes comfortable. So on most occasions I wear shoes that have style, without killing my feet at the end of the day. I only wear heels to dances, or formal outings, and even at dances I tend to lose my shoes before the night is over. Parents shouldn't really be buying them heels. Maybe a pair, if they really wanted them, but not tons and tons of them. I have 3 in different colors and that suits my needs.

For playing at dress up, I think it is fine. For actually wearing as part of an out fit as a whole, no! Aside from the physical damage done to the feet, it pushes away age appropriate clothing. I think it makes them behave older than they are at a much younger age. Childhood keeps getting shorter and shorter.

not that i am for or against this whole debacle...but i think that these little girls are missing out on one of the most memorable things that little girls their age should be able to experience at some point of their lives---this is the funny habit of trying to wear our mothers' pretty high-heeled shoes that are absolutely 5 times too big for our little feet because now they get to have heels of there own! p.s. i commend these high-hell wearing little girls for being able to walk in these shoes for i myself have trouble walking in 2 inch heels...:)

I do not think children that age should wear high heels!!! I think high heels are made for when we are older not like real old but I guess you know what I mean?

Little kids love to copy all the behaviors from the adults around them. It's not strange at all that we can see some little girls with very sexy clothes dancing very sexily . However i don't agree with this . For myself i don't want to wear high heels because i feel very tired. But i'm short and i have to wear them sometimes. I don't let my girl to wear them if i have a girl . It can make a lot of damage to her.

High heels wearing is not good for health. if you wearing it for parties or for some time it is ok but if you are wearing for long this is not good at all.

I used to work in the infant and children's department of a department store. When the new line of clothes arrived, my manager would get upset with the "hooker" clothes that showed up for toddlers and young girls. A toddler does not need to wear a bikini or halter top and mini skirt or high heels. As far as the heels go, when my sister and I were little, they had plastic high heels in the toy department that you could wear to play dress up. They were made for play, not every day. If you want to pretend to be mommy or a princess, etc. these are fine for play. However, wearing high heels when your bones are still forming (back, legs, knees, feet and even neck) on a regular basis may ultimately be injurious to the bone health of the child. Perhaps if these parents that are trying to make these children mature beyond their years would visit a retirement home and see the elderly barely able to walk from years of bone abuse, they would think twice about letting their little children wear heels on an every day basis. Teen years are hard enough trying to keep up with fashion. This kind of pressure should not be bestowed upon little children.

Little girls as young as 3 or 4 are not supposed to wear high heeled shoes like adults do. Even adults experienced leg troubles due to wearing incorrect high heels most of the time. I have seen little girls wear those heels and they're cute but oftentimes they are uncomfortable especially when walking for sometime and they seem to drag their feet after awhile. These little girls should stick to the sensible shoes appropriate for their ages.

i will not banned my children from wearing high heel. i think all the girls look pretty with high heels. i love shopping especially for shoes and i owns more than 50 pairs of high heels. i do not know how the healh is affected if wearing high heel at young age.

just look at Tom Cruise's little girl,she always wear high heels(of course it is not so high),which looks beautiful.But I think that is not good for children's growth~ high heels are designed for adults,not for children~

Just look at Tom Cruise's little girl,she always wears high heels,which looks beautiful but I think that is no good for children's growth. High heels are designed for adults,not children~

My little sister she also like to wear high heel. She always wear my shoe as it's heel. I don't know why. It's also risky but she never fall down. So i allow her to wear sometime.

Oh, that is so dangerous. I only wear it at my wedding. But I am a weirdo.

I think it is just crazy. I don't agree with it all. I did notice this about a year ago. Too many girls wearing these huge high heels. My daughters no. I am a Christian women and yes the women at our church still allow their girls to wear those shoes. I don't let my girls though. I don't want them to grow up faster than they already are. Plus me and my husband firmly believe in the scripture about lusting after another person. We also believe that it's not just the man or women lusting, but the person they are lusting after. They know the attention they are going to get when they put on those clothes and shoes. Regardless if it's men or women.

Maybe it's just my age and all lol, but I think it's totally ridiculous to let girls that young wear heels. Yes, that's way too early! It's one thing when they raid Mom's closet to play dress-up once in a while, but not for everyday wear. I agree, it would be bad for their growth by letting them wear heels, those are the formative years for all their bones & muscles. Why would any parent want to accelerate the maturity of their children?! They are not little adults, nor should they dress like them. When my Mom was in her 20's she had to wear heels each day to work, and that was only for 3 years. After that, she was never able to wear flats of any kind, even slippers. Her achilles tendon had shortened and stayed that way throughout her whole life. I can't imagine anybody wanting to do that to a little one!

I don't think it is a big deal really. I'm going on the assumption the child does not wear the "high" heel shoes all the time. Certainly not when playing or doing something where one has to be active. As little girls, we all wanted to wear our mom's high heel shoes. I remember recently seeing a picture of Suri Cruise (the daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise) wearing a little one inch heel. And people were just ripping them up and down for letting their little girl "grow up too fast". I thought they were overreacting. Little girls beg to wear those kind of things. And most of the time when they wear them, it is is for a dressed up occasion or a rare special occasion. I just think this is on the low end of things to worry about when it comes to rearing little girls.