child modellign is choiild exploitaion

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theyll be sewing trainers soon

SPRAY! @ missdee and pruni

It's no worse than all these kids who are shunted along to dance classes several times a week (yes, several!) and entered in shows and festivals nearly every week end.. painted up to the nines.. forced to wait around for hours looking beautiful and perfect but not allowed to eat or drink.. and then poked onto the stage to perform. In my experience there are not even that many of the children who do this who actually enjoy it at all.. at least not visibly! (And they aren't going to enjoy it invisibly are they!)

And they don't even get paid.. it costs a fortune instead!

And I speak from experience. DD did ballet and tap for a few years.. was fairly good, so got picked for festivals etc which I went along with for a few months.. was rather increasingly appalled at the whole thing.. asked her if she would like to STOP doing the festivals or even stop dancing altogether and join Brownies.. she JUMPED at the chance.. and looking back am so glad she did!

Impressed with your a-acute, ff.

Yes, i thought it was a nice touch

I can see what the parent gets out of it but not what the child gains so I therefore have a problem with it. However, someone could enlighten me. I don't need to be told my child has that something special quality I know they have My sister once said she didn't want her dd to be too beautiful as she herself had found it a burden - pmsl!

Lockets Im shocked, Ive never heard anyone say that about their own children

FF and snafu....that is all mn needs , more people being snobby about accents

As an aside did anyone else what the prog on last night about training athletes for the next olympics. there was an 11 year old boy diver, who was good enough for this years commonwealth games. When he got in his dad hugges hum and said 'Well done, you did it for me' HUH??? The boy didn't it for himself! Gave dh and me the shudders.

OK I'd better come clean ...

I was once asked if my kids would model, for FREE, for a catalogue of clothes for a new shop which was specialising in organic cotton, washable nappies fairly traded 100% organic lentil woven baby clothes.

I thought about it for approximate 1.5 seconds then said, 'YES!' TBH I was thrilled that they'd been asked (clearly the shop woman had seen their beauty ) and I was pleased that my kids would feature in a cool new catalogue for a politically sound clothing company.

However, on the day while the photographer was setting stuff up I felt really guilty and knew I had made a mistake. There were loads of other suckers there with their kids, just like me. The kids were herded around like sheep. It felt wrong wrong wrong in so many ways.

I would never do it again and I'd certainly never do it for money.

Im sure theyre gorgeous lockets, but Ive met some ugly kids and their parents think theyre the bees knees

My ds is gorgeous, but he couldn't model, because he doesn't look like a model, IYSWIM. The child model look is not the only gorgeous look. I see lockets' point.

So do I,Ive just never heard such honesty

eveyone said I should try to get ds into the modelling game, but as he is constantly mistaken for a girl I didn't think it was a good idea. Besides I'm too lazy and not pushy enough. Dp took him to a filming session with ragdoll (thought it would be fun) and as at how some of the mothers behaved!

It means that we just don't see child models as the epitome of gorgeousness, I have looked at the websites and frankly some of the lids look strange, especially the older girls.

why BD, spill spill spill, we love to deride people here...

just very pushy, having a go at their children, treating the whole thing like it was life or death...

I wonder how many of those that are so aqainst child modelling ever buy children's clothes online, or from catalogues............surely that's only promoting child modelling as someone's child has to sit for those photos that you look at to choose the stuff...............

They wouldn't want ds as he's get snot all over the clothes.

Oh, QoQ, must you be so darned reasonable? Can't you see some of us are trying to have a completely unjustified and judgemental bitch here?

snafu - did you not see my at the end runs off to put the cornfed chicken into the oven for dinner tonight***

Haven't read the whole thread but just think it is usually the parents who get satisfaction from this not the kids.Also don't like the idea of using them to sell stuff and also it is wrong to introduce your children to a world where they are judged on their looks alone Childhood is not a time to be comparing yourself with others in that way Let them be kids