I totally support your choosing what you want for your child (and if you can't impose your aesthetic values on your small child, when can you?
) But I just wanted to respond to this bit.
If you let them have make up now (and they insist that it is not to wear out) but what happens in 2 years? Are they going to sneak it out in their backpacks?
I don't think allowing it now makes it escalate later. If they want to sneak, they'll sneak, whether they take it from their own house or borrow it from their friends. And I suspect that kids are probably
less likely to go sneaking it later if it wasn't treated as a forbidden fruit when they were younger. Kind of like how French kids who are allowed to drink small amounts of wine don't tend go binge drinking when they get older like American kids do.
Having said that, I plan on having draconian policies against Barbie, makeup, and chewing-gum in my house as Hanni gets older!
