Over the last few weeks I’ve come across so many stories about the end-of-year proms which are happening up and down the country at the moment that I can no longer ignore it, I have to write something!!

At first I thought it might be a one-off school, where the parents had got a little carried away and decided to splash out and spoil their kids with a ‘the sky’s the limit’ motto. However, I’ve come to realise that this is now a nationwide craze! Children arriving in limousines and landing in helicopters, dressed in £600 outfits and caked in makeup at the tender age of 11 is apparently becoming the norm over here in the UK.

It’s a bit frightening really and many people I’ve spoken to about it are split. Some say “its just one day in the year when they can dress up and have fun so why not?”, whereas the other half say “if they have this now, what have they got to aspire to?” After reading numerous comments from parents questioned in the articles I’ve seen, it also appears that the main driving force behind these ever more extravagant displays of excess is the parental one-upmanship.

I’m all for children having fun and going to a party together but whatever happened to hiring out the village hall and buying outfits which don’t cost an arm and a leg to buy, such as this gorgeous girly dress?

What do you think?