to not agree with child pagents

[imoanruby]

i know it's in the Daily Mail i know..

But this was sent to me today and got me thinking about pagents and girls in them and i wondered what other peoples opinions of them are...it doesn't sit comfortably with me...

child pagents

Those poor little girls! They will end up hating each other and/or their mother. How do the parents treat the winner/loser?

Why do they always look as if they are 30?

Utterly, utterly ghastly and should be banned imo.

no i dont like them either, but couldnt be arsed to worry enough to start a thread about it

shrugs

Completely yuck!!

But, slightly OT, has anyone seen the film "Little Miss Sunshine" where a "normal" little girl wants to enter a beauty pagaent and is being coached for it by her Grandfather? The end is fabulous.

Not sure i'd ban them but I wouldn't let my DD anywhere near one

For me they seem to affirm that a women's worth should be predominantly based on her appearance, I know people will say they also focus on academic acheivements but i've never seen any plain Janes win and why are the children so sexualised to look and act like adult women

They are vile. Fortunately the worst elements of them seem to have stayed across the Atlantic. But they're hardly news are they? Although of course, this was a Daily Mail "story".

Urgh put their bellies away!!

There seems to be a direct link between 'pageant kids' and 'alternative spellings
Of names'

I saw a toddlers and tiaras with a
'Siryniti' on it - pronounced serenity

I think, in theory, that they're awful things...I've watched a couple of documentaries on Sky (I had a train wreck moment...couldn't look away) but, the thing that disturbed me the most was the general attitudes of the little ones involved: a lot of them are brattly, self-involved etc etc which led me to believe that regular activity in such a pursuit was instilling bad values...I suppose if I'd seen a child pagent documentary where the children exhibited good values then I wouldn't be so horrified.

Freaky that these little girls are dressed in such an adult way. But also freaky that the kinds of adult women considered 'beautiful' in contemporary culture often look a bit like 6-year-olds with plastic tits on: tiny frame, huge head, big eyes set low down the face. Creepola in both directions

5foot5 I love that film,going to see if the ending is on YouTube anywhere...

kayano really that's awful?! I have never seen Toddlers and Tiaras and don't think i want to!

they seem to be catching on over here too what child ever really asks to do a beauty pagent. to me it just seems like pushy mothers reliving there youth and dreams desperate to be in the lime light.

I only saw one episode and was like this

Then I saw the spelling of her name

And I saw a pageant boy called Braxton. I was having BH at the time and was

I will admit to watching Toddlers and Tiaras a few times

It's the mothers on it that keep me hooked though.
They're quite unbelievable.

The mother of siryniti was livid about the stylist having to do one one else's hair and her Dds hair was just
Not big enough. It's on in an hour... I think I will watch again

I just got the pronunciation of Siryniti. Awful on both counts!

When I think how hard it used to be, when DD was this age, to get her to sit still and not wriggle long enough for me to put her hair in plain ordinary pigtails, then the mind just boggles at how someone could get their DC to submit to this sort of thing.

Should be banned. Little Miss Sunshine is a wonderful film.

Loathesome things. I agree with 5Foot about hair. My DD is almost 11. She still won't brush her hair properly. The idea of rollers and laquer. Ha.

Am going to watch Little Miss Sunshine again tonight. Excellent film.

I think they're rather fabulous.

Why not celebrate the beauty of little girls?

But they don't LOOK like little girls. They look like - heaven knows what!

How is Siryniti pronounced?

Also love Little Miss Sunshine, great film.

I assume it is Serenity.

Cadelaide: in the family photo they look like normal little girls, no more or less beautiful than any other child. It's not celebrating a child's beauty when they are plastered in make up, fake tan and hair extensions.