{"id":6419,"date":"2013-03-17T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2013-03-16T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:29:43","slug":"how-young-is-too-young-to-get-nails-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=6419","title":{"rendered":"How young is too young to get nails done?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t need to sit next to your child at the salon, thank you<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Kelly Hockenberry<\/strong>, Columnist, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"UTNuKellyColumn\"<\/a>Tuesday morning I was watching the TODAY show and they did a segment on current topics for debate.\u00a0 My ears perked up when they started talking about \u201cPamper Parties\u201d for little girls.\u00a0 The question posed was \u201cat what age should girls be allowed to get their nails done?\u201d\u00a0 NOW, before I reveal what the masses voted, let ME weigh in with my thoughts\u2026<\/p>\n

I understand that going to a theme party complete with manicure, hair and make-up is the trend these days (creepily similar to \u201cToddlers & Tiaras\u201d if you ask me\u2026.although, the person who came up with this idea is making a MINT! Kudos!)\u00a0 But, I think the regularly scheduled mani\/pedi with mom is absurd.\u00a0 What does a young girl have to look forward to if she has a standing appointment starting at age 5?\u00a0 I think it should be a rite of passage to indulge in a luxury like that.<\/p>\n

Go ahead and leave me a nasty message in the Comment box, but when I have an hour to sneak away and get a mani, the last thing I want to walk into is a salon full of children!\u00a0 I\u2019m there to GET AWAY FROM MY CHILDREN\u2026not to sit next to yours in a pedi chair stealing my US Weekly.\u00a0 Good grief.<\/p>\n

The same applies to high-end salons for haircuts!\u00a0 Perhaps I\u2019m bitter because I spent my childhood being photographed with butchered bangs or the indentation marks from sleeping in foam rollers. \u00a0Shouldn\u2019t little kids have ugly hairstyles?\u00a0 If they grow up looking perfect, how can they age gracefully?\u00a0 Will this be a whole generation of women who peaked in pre-school?\u00a0 I look back at my high school photos where I never knew the benefits of plucking my eyebrows or proper eyeliner application and I appreciate that I have gotten better with age!\u00a0 I worry that this adage will fade away\u2026<\/p>\n

And, in case you were wondering, fifty percent of people polled thought that manicures should be reserved for ages 13 and up.\u00a0 (I would have said 16, but I\u2019m a stick in the mud, obviously)<\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t need to sit next to your child at the salon, thank you By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times Tuesday morning I was watching the TODAY show and they did a segment on current topics for debate.\u00a0 My ears perked up when they started talking about \u201cPamper Parties\u201d for little girls.\u00a0 The question posed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[241,2067,2068,2069],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-featured","tag-children","tag-nail-salons","tag-pamper-parties","tag-pedicure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}