Starting Young

Ever had an amused smile on your face and said to another...

"they're starting young!"

Babies and toddlers who kiss each other. Children who takes a fancy in high heels. The little girl next door who has her dream wedding all planned out to the very last detail by the time she's ten. Teenagers, not so much.

What do we do when we see children engage in adult fancies? We smirk to one another, we coo, we laugh and generally we think it's cute.

I used to think so too. Actually, come to think of it, I still do. Being surrounded by young children all day at work, I still find it incredibly adorable when I see a young boy holding a young girl's hand...though not an ounce of romance but dripped in every bit of cute.

Then today, as I sat talking to two of my most talkative girls during free period in class, they changed my mind. Girl A, six, told me all about her boyfriend. She eagerly showed me a birthday card she made for him which had little red hearts spewed all over it. She drew themselves hand in hand. Then she said this...

"I love him"

"I love him very much"

"I never want to leave him"

"We will be together forever and ever and ever"

She chanted this no less than six times. 

Girl B, eight, then started going off on how she's had four ex-boyfriends and oh, how she loves her boyfriend so very much but he has only just dumped her for another girl because he told her in advance if he finds another, she gets the boot. And she did.

Freaky. O_o

Am I the only one who think this has crossed over the border of cuteness into plain scary? Here we have two very young girls who although perfectly normal to be boy crazy, are engaging in adolescent obsession (Girl A) and female submission (Girl B).

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people who think these two girls are cute engaging in their little girl fantasies.

...but I was seriously freaked out.