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To be honest, when I set out on my question-asking mission this week, I only had three. But I knew a fourth would come to me and sure enough, it did.

“Let’s see if you can both be dressed by the time I get out of the shower,” I called to the girls this morning, fully expecting that Sophie would ignore me and giving Annabelle 50/50 odds.

Amazingly, both were dressed — Annabelle even had shoes on! — when I emerged. Sophie had put on the shirt and skirt I’d left on the coffee table (the shirt was inside out, easily rectified) but when she turned to face me I realized she was wearing a full face (not just mouth) of lipstick. True, it wasn’t a really dark shade, and actually it matched the skirt nicely, but still.

Can I let my 7-year-old go to school in lipstick?

In the end we compromised and she let me wipe it off her cheek and nose. But it stayed on and around her mouth and really, I’m not sure I could have gotten it all off even if she’d let me try, given that I didn’t have three hours and a huge tub of Pond’s cold cream on hand. I don’t know how that lipstick (from a kids’ kit, I usually stick to lip gloss myself) fell into enemy hands. I devoted a Rubber Maid to “kids’ makeup” and have it tucked on a high shelf. Apparently a renegade lipstick was floating around the play room.

No more, I’ve confiscated it, and I felt really good about the fact that Sophie did not manage to take the American Girl catalogue or crying baby doll (the thing practically shrieks) with her to school, as she had hoped.

But she did head off with a full mouth of lipstick and a smug look on her face.

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Tags: Filed under: Down syndrome, fashion, public school by Amysilverman

One Response to “Question 4: Is It OK to Let My 7 Year Old Wear Lipstick to School?”

  1. I don’t guess it’s possible that you’re payin’ for your raisin’. ;-]

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