My stepdaughter"s Mom loves taking pictures, or having them taken and has had (for a while now) been taking grown up type pictures of my 10 year old stepdaughter. Make up, poses, face expressions etc. This latest batch presented to us make me extremely uncomfortable. To see a 10 year old posing like this, with make up and bright red lipstick is just totally wrong. I worry about the vanity this is creating in my stepdaughter who is already quite precocious and I worry about these photos falling into the wrong hands.

I admit that hubby thinks his daughter can do no wrong so he just shrugged at the pictures, agreed he didn't like them and left it at that.

I am not in a position to do anything about this, I just wanted to get it off my chest. These pictures are going to get dumped in the photo box. There is no way I am framing them.

Shudder!