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Help: my kids are getting into make-up

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There I was, in Boots with both kids. I was reading the packaging of a product while my kids took a look at a make-up display. When I lifted my head-up, I was presented with an impressive sight.

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The results would be very funny if my kids came across a tray of make-up like this. Pic credit: Freestocks.org

Yes, you have probably figured out what happened. Helen, our eight-year-old, had various samples smeared across her face. Izzy, who is four years old, had also had a go. Luckily she had been a little more conservative with how she had applied foundation / lip stick etc. to her face.

Given a little more time, I dread to think what the two of them would have got up to. It would no doubt have been very funny, but required a lot of cleaning up.

This, however, is just the latest incident Iโ€™ve had to deal with that proves my daughters, in particular Helen, are growing up. Both kids have always had a thing for make-up.

Mrs Adams inadvertently encourages it by leaving her (expensive) make-up lying around the house. Every now and again the kids have decided to have a play with hilarious results.

Truth be told I very rarely clear up Mrs Adamsโ€™ make-up if I find it outside of the dedicated make-up storage area I created for her. As far as Iโ€™m concerned, if you leave it lying around itโ€™s fair game for the kids.

The other day, Helen insisted on buying a comic that had some free kiddiesโ€™ make-up with it. The make-up has become some of her most treasured possessions.

I guessed this would happen, but Iโ€™m a little surprised at the age at which Helen has caught the make-up bug. I guess it also makes me a tiny bit sad. Itโ€™s a further sign that sheโ€™s losing interest in childhood pursuits and slowly but surely heading towards the teenaged years.

Maybe itโ€™s me thatโ€™s innocent? I did, after all, grow up with brothers (I have a sister but we grew up in separate households #itscomplicated). You wonโ€™t be that surprised to hear that none of us boys showed any interest in our motherโ€™s make-up. Perhaps if Iโ€™d had the experience of growing up with a younger sister I wouldnโ€™t find Helenโ€™s love of make-up that surprising.

Come on mums and dads, whatโ€™s your experience? Is Helen a little young to be getting into make-up? Are we accidentally being too liberal as parents by not doing more to discourage this? Do I simply accept that both my kids are going to want to play with and use cosmetics and Iโ€™d better just get used to it?

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