I am reminded of two things. When I was in kindergarten, 43 years ago, there was a girl in my class, who would sometimes wear a cropped top, that I think her mother had made (it was made of floral material and had flowery lace at the hem) and a matching skirt. I remember, one day, she had been talking when we were supposed to be having a sleep, and the teaching assistant kept trying to pull her top down. I also remember, one day, when I was out in public, and there were two women sitting having coffee while their daughters were playing, and one woman's daughter, who was wearing a crop top, walked up to her mother's friend and stuck out her tummy, because she wanted her to poke her navel. In the latter case, I thought, "Okay, the mother knew and obviously trusted the woman she was having coffee with. If her daughter had done it to a random member of the public, then I'd be thinking, "No, that's wrong.""

I remember, in my first week of school, a teacher on playground duty yelling at a boy (NO, it wasn't me), "Did you lift up the girls' dresses?!" "That's rude!" I knew, even before then, that it was rude and used to get uncomfortable at kindergarten if one of the girls hung upside down on a climbing fort as her dress would slide up.

If I had a daughter (I don't have any kids), I wouldn't want to be a controlling parent, but if I had a daughter who didn't want to show off too much skin, I would probably want to buy her unisex t-shirts and shorts. If I had a daughter who wanted to wear a crop top, I would say to her, "Not before we have an important talk," and I would tell her about consent and to remember that nobody has the right to touch her without permission, and say that you can ask Nanny and Poppy (that's what my niece and nephew call my parents) for a hug or your other grandparents, and uncles and aunties, but to remember that just because you're showing skin doesn't mean that someone has the right to say anything or touch you and if they do and it makes you feel uncomfortable, you tell someone."

Young children should be educated not sexualized.