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Toddlers and Tiaras ??
Ok so I know this program is obviously showing the really bad side of pageants but as a British woman I just dont understand how moms can make their beautiful little girls look like 30 year old drag queens and be ok with their tiny toddlers shaking their bootys and winking at the judges - this is not cute to me. In fact its down right disturbing.
Do I just have a very old fashioned European attitude to these things? Are there actually any good reasons for doing pageants?? I am really trying to be open minded about this but i just find it so wrong.
Is it just me??
Re: Toddlers and Tiaras ??
Most Americans think it's weird and crazy too. That's why they made it into a TV show, because it's such a train wreck ;-) I especially think the little girl pageants are just creepy.
Please don't think this is how normal Americans spend their time!
I feel like a pedophile when I watch that show.
There are some pageants where the girls must be natural. Just cute clothes, real hair and no makeup. I think these can be fun for kids, but then I'm still iffy on kids being judged on their looks.
I was watching it once and there was a swimsuit competition. One of the judges said that they don't want the girls to be too sexy. Uh, too sexy? How about you don't want them being sexy at all. Kids can't be sexy. That comment made my skin crawl.
Ok thank you ladies !! I just cant get over what some of these mothers do to their poor children.
There was a 3 year old who had hair extensions sewn into her head for like 2 hrs then by the time her time to come on stage she was tired and grouchy (shocker ...Not!!) and she kept pleadin with her mom please can we go to the park , please can we go swimming and the mother through gritted teeth just told her to turn, and blow kisses then when she got off stage she told her kid off for not being cute enough. What in the crap!
Another mother dressed her child as the prostitute (julia Roberts) in pretty women ....... these moms should be charged with child abuse.
I know nothing about the pageant world, but isn't it one of those deals, like a lot of sports, that if you want to be successful when you're older you need to start young?
the catagories start from 0 - 23 months so these mothers are definitely starting them out young.I understand getting your child into a sport, piano, languages etc and training their entire life so they are successful as an adult but i dont understand how dressing up a child in makeup and have them parade in bikinis set them up to be succesful?
ahhhhhhhh got ya!!!! I defo think you'd have to be winning constantly and the pageants be reputable.
This small pageant (in the episode i saw) cost at least $400 to enter and the dresses these kids had on cost like $1000 plus.
I think id rather put the money to tuition, piano/language lessons etc but i guess its to each their own.
I guess I understand parents wanting their children to learn self-confidence, and I can see this aspect of the "natural" pageants. But honestly, I never did pageants...and I learned to be self-confident by learning how to play instruments, doing dance and gymnastics, and playing team and individual sports. I learned how to be well-manered and well-spoken because my parents often put me in situations where I had to interact with adults (answering the telephone at home, paying cashier at the grocery store, calling my coach to tell him that I was sick and couldn't attend practice, etc).
This article says it all:
http://latinafatale.com/2011/07/21/how-to-talk-to-little-girls/
I also don't get these things, and can't understand why people do this with such young girls.
This spook I saw recently is pretty funny though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dPLWKBWkn3s
Cecilia arrived 12 October 2012
No, I would not say that you have an old-fashioned European attitude. I think anyone in their right mind thinks the show is creepy and inappropriate.
Sometimes it comes on after a legit show I'm watching and I get hooked and can't turn it off. It's like a train wreck you can't take your eyes off of.