To want strangle the mums on baby beauty pagents?

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Doc on last night-highlight was a six year old shaking her arse to 'bad boys' in shorts and crop top.
Grrrrrr!

Grrrrrrr indeed.
what are they thinking of?
Oh....the prize money and the reflected glory

Wait... There's cash involved?? ....

maybe it's just my upbringing - my mum used to say to me 'dinky,you'll never be the prettiest or the brightest or the most clever' ahhh army parenting hey?

baby prostitutes ...

I missed this! Damn

YANBU, little girls parading around as mini adults in stupid amounts of make up and hot pants is disgusting. Fair enough if they are playing dress up at home like I used to but I didn't wear hot pants, it was my nans flower dresses for me.

These parents (probably mothers) need a massive wake up call.

I always think of poor Jon Benet Ramsey.

what channel? YANBU anyway, without me even seeing it. disgusting. not sure I could handle watching the show TBH

They are disgusting.

Turning their babies into prostitots for their own shallow thrills and financial gain.

They make me sick.

fgs they're hardly prostitutes are they? has gone on for years and years.

Saw the trailer, just could not bring myself to watch as would have then had to fork out for new TV due to present one having my shoe stuck in the front of it....

Sad, sad parents, but am even sadder for the pooor children.

Mix of and and

I watched this too - yes was very sad to see some of the inappropriate posing and dressing.

Some of the Mums were sensible with advice and would then ruin it by saying "you don't get anywhere in life if you're not pretty"

It'll be on BBC iplayer now those who missed it- it hasn't really been going on for a long time at all- I think it's only 5 years that kiddie (official) pagents have been run- there's 20 now

I saw one of these ages ago that covered 2 mums and their daughters, and they all had different reasons for doing it.

One mum was a total cow and had her poor little 6 yr old in mascara every day and rehearsing when she should be sleeping. The child really didnt want to do it.

But the other little girl had been quite sick, and really wanted to just look pretty for one day. The mum was really apprehensive but knew it would boost the little girls confidence, and it did. They didnt have much money so the mum made all the dresses etc, it was a proper family effort. She didnt win, but they didnt even want to. They just wanted her to have one day where she was a princess.

I absolutely loathe these pageants, but the sick little girls story did move me.

Didn't watch it, but I think the whole concept is grim. Not just the sexualisation of children, but the importance placed on their looks at such a young age. Wrong.

Horrible thing to do to a child. Apart from anything else (and there are loads of issues here) it is cruel to brainwash a little girl into thinking how she looks is all important. Pretty children do not necessarily grow up to be pretty adults and if they have no other resources to fall back on they could end up very messed up.

What frazzles my ordinary brain is that those mothers were convinced that the children were taking part because they wanted to. But if this is the only way that the girls get attention and "love" then of course they would supposedly want to take part!

And how sad was little Amber's brother, just lolling around on mum's lap while she was slobbering over that awful dance her daughter did.

DD and I caught this by accident and watched in horrified fascination.

There was one poor little girl of about 9 or 10 who was kept up until about 4am having fake spray on tan applied. Not sure why they were still up at that time as I wasn't paying attention until then.

Then she had to get up at normal time to go out and perform and be interviewed and so on and her Mum was saying "I hope she won't be too tired to do her best..." FGS

One kid looked exactly like a mini-Barbie - aagh.

No you are deff not BU it seems like all the American stuff comes here good and bad without much criicism It makes me feel SOOO SICK.

Ah yes. I was waiting for that comment to appear. It's the Americans. Forcing good British people to dress their 6 year old daughters like hookers and enter them into contests. And sue people.

So was this a british one then? (called Baby Beauty Queens?) gawd no!

I have seen an american doc ( on You tube here ) on it and one of the judges/presenter (he sang a song on stage with the girls) was a little suspicious IYSWIS..

Awful to watch, I made these faces - (interchangable) whilst watching it.

Agreed. What exactly makes a man want to judge a little girl beauty contest?

Well slouching it does seem that a lot of people lurve the american culture unthinkingly don't you think?