In the News - Babies in Stilettos? It's Heelarious!

You have got to be frigging kidding me. As you know, I peruse the articles on ABC News daily and when I saw this article I think I threw up a little bit in my mouth. Babies in Stilettos? It's Heelarious!.

From the article: It's high heels for babies. And in the two weeks since they hit the market, the shoes are selling like "wildfire" in 22 US states and overseas, according to co-creators Britta Bacon and Hayden Porter.

The soft shoe is actually a bootie that comes in five styles, each with a name: "Brooke" is a leopard print, "Elle" is pink, "Kate" is black satin, "Kayla" is zebra satin, "She's a Little Lady" is black patent leather and "Sophie" is hot pink satin.

"They're not for any other reason in the whole world than for the child you don't know what to give to," said Helen Wright, owner of Pitti Bimi, one of her three high-end children's stores in Deal, N.J.

"It's for the cool, trendier mom, the city mom," she told ABCNEWS.com. "It's not pedestrian, excuse the pun, it's edgy."

The problem with this concept? "It's high heels for babies."

If my head could fall off from all the shaking, I think I would have no head right now. What are these women thinking?

I was watching Dr. Phil the other day and he had an episode on people who were spoiled called My Big, Fat, Spoiled Family Member. There was an Aunt who spoiled her 4 year old niece so much by buying her things and taking her shopping that the little girl preferred spending time with the Aunt over her own mother. And she loved to go shopping. At 4 years old.

What are we teaching our children? My first reaction was similar to the one mother in the article who hated the idea. "I'm appalled," said a Croton, N.Y., mother, who has a 1-year-old daughter. "It's one thing to buy Disney princess shoes, but never in a million years would I put my daughter in those shoes."

"You hear about all the back problems women have wearing heels, besides the sexual innuendo and not to mention JonBenet," she said.

But the creators say that statements like that "miss the point" of the shoes, which are a novelty item only.

Still shaking my head, the only thing I keep thinking is "Only in America".