Blinging up baby

[Thefishewife]

To think if your giving a 4&2 year old a spay tan false nails and hoop earrings

You need a visit from ss and a parenting course

And also what the hell with al these business willing to carry out these treatments on children so young

Idkick OH found it uncomfortable watching a very young girl being so obviously sexualised - he just found it really distasteful and said it's seriously worrying that a parent could think it's okay to let their little girl be paraded around that way.

Those mums are ruining their children's childhoods. This is a precious time for those children when they should be enjoying climbing trees and playing in the dirt without worrying about catching their earrings or smudging their makeup or ripping their ridiculous dresses, they have the rest of their lives to worry about appearances

agree

its not like vicortians dressing child in bonnet because they didnt make a HUGE song and dance out of it....

popping a child in a too big dress for a party for a few hours, is nothing,,,child probably doesnt even register it...

talking about it - talking about nothing else probably, focusing on it, working towards it, trying on outfits for it, spray tanning, is making a whole life and world out of IT.

I though Princess was a nickname

it's horrible message is girls are to look pretty and entertain others nothing else

I would not call it abuse though it could be very damaging to these little girls in the future

I am watching this in utter shock it's bloody awful, these poor little girls, their future is mapped out for them this is a form of abuse

Actually, I thought the children of the other two mums (not the pageant mum) seemed really loved and well cared for. I'd rather see that than some of the awful stories of children being neglected anyday. Except the earrings - the earrings did make me wince because I could see them being ripped out accidentally.

I will confess to giggling when the pageant mum got called a 'bitch' by her daughter though, in a shocked 'I can't believe she just said that' kind of way.

I watched this my morbid couriosity got the better of me. I was disgusted. The women who perfomed the spray tan must have needed her bumps feeling as well. Fancy putting all that on a baby's skin.
Okay a little bit of innocent make up say lip gloss and pale pink nail varnish is fine. It's all part of being a little girl, but founadation macara blusher to me is a no no.
May be I am old fashioned but to me little girls should be in smock dresses.

I've just finished catching up with this.

Some of the mums, like the one from Birkinhead, seemed to just want to put their baby in pretty dresses while they can and know that as they grow up they'll have their own say. I can't see that there is any difference there from a mum who dresses their 1yo in Ramones t-shirts because that's her taste. It's just a dress, and it's their call how they spend their money.

Some of the others, though... The Hooters outfit made me gape at the screen. And the dancing at the pageant I don't really like anything about pageants at all, but watching 3yos aping the sexualised dances of pop stars doesn't sit right with me at all.

I can't entirely decide where I stand on the make up, though. Before I had a DD I would have thought nail polish on a toddler was absolutely terrible. Now I have a toddler who looks at my painted nails, I admit I do then put splodges of bright polish on her toenails during the summer. And she copies me putting on my make up because she sees me do it in the morning.

So bits of it made sense to me - kids ape their parents. DD pretends to put on lipstick because she watches me do it, just as she pretends to cook because she watches her dad do it. Fine line and all that.

Though my line is definitely at fake tans for 4 year olds...

I don't watch these shows. I think most part of them are made up for shock value. Who wants to see people being normal after all...

My main wince through the show was that awkward crael the 1yo had in her dresses. It looked so peculiar. I know every baby has their own way but to me it really looked wonky because she had to crawl through the frills. I kep thinking about her poor hips.

I understand occasionally putting a frilly dress on a crawling baby but that crawl was used to it

For God's sake use skirts and just whip it off when she wants to move around and just leave her in tights!!!

*awkward crawl

It was refreshing to hear the mum say that she wouldn't force it on her daughter when she is old enough for opinions.

I'm no different to her as I dressed DD in 'non pink' when she was a baby as I knew I'd be able get away with it. Now she LOVES pink.

I was shocked at the Hooters dance.

The only mum I've ever met who wanted a DD to dress in frills, is MIL...but she had a son so she was very excited about dressing DD in frilly knickers.