child modellign is choiild exploitaion

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theyll be sewing trainers soon

Amen to that nh! Someone suggested I get DS into modelling, but I am not keen tbh. I'd rather his picture in print for doing something worthy or spevial.

If you get to adulthood and you have been genetically blessed with the look of the day then there is no harm in earning a living at it but kids rarely turn up at agencies themselves demanding to be taken on and I'm sure would prefer to be playing with their friends

I (personally) think DS1 has the 'looks' for modelling - can't be ar*ed to do anything about it so we'll just live in the vain hope that we'll be aprroached (yeah right LOL).

yeah but NH - I was quite a good looking kid - possible had 'model' potential..........lost them by the time I was old enough to be able to make a decision for myself.

And besides - how many other 'choices' do we make for our children.............

Have a look through the Amnesty website and you'll see what child exploitation is, we're so bloody precious in this country, we don't know were born i tell ya.

Can't believe it's that harmful really - it'll probably be good for some (money, confidence) and bad for some (overworked, too many knockbacks, growing up with dodgy set of values) just like anything else.
However the reason I find it creepy is it's another manifestation of the idea that the greatest aim in life is to become famous and the best way to become famous is through looks. Don;t mind them doing it if they want to, just wish they didn't want to.

not my cup of tea and I don't like Bonny Baby competitions either.

Also I can't abide it when you see little girls with hardly any hair (and even if they have a lot) and they have this kind of fountain coming out of the top of their head (a bit like a Yorkie) or, babies in Adidas trainers and trendy clothes - it's all a matter of choice really, their mum think it's great and as long as no harm comes to the child gerronwivit.

I couldn't be arsed to pimp my kids tbh.

Hate pushy mothers too.
However I find it easier to buy kids clothes if I can see a picture of the items being worn by a real child, so I can't be totally opposed to it can I?

My mum entered me in a bonny baby comp, lol! She still has the pic in glorious black and white. I didn't get anywhere because I was so fat!

(And they told her so!)

I thought that was the point of a "bonny baby" competition!
Chubby bouncing babies!

I think it is a most extreme version of the pride we all feel. We all want to show off our kids, I guess. I know I love it when people say oh, arent your boys so handsome.

I wouldn't go down the modeling route because I personally think it is selfish - I would be doing it for me because it would make me feel proud (smug?) not because it would enrich my kids lives in a life changing way. I much prefer to concentrate on schooling and helping them sustain friendships.

And then the money - i would not want to use my kids to make money, i think that is very very wrong. Furthermore, if i am to say that it is for their future, well, if i can only afford to give them a future by sending them out to earn it for themselves at 4 years old, maybe i cant actually afford kids at all! It is my job as parent to provide, not theirs.

Agree with cod, she says with a parpety parp parp

I'd better come clean as well!!

Our kids were asked to model on Saturday by a friend for a friend... Kids cashmere outfits!

They spent the morning with two other children being photographed while they all played and had fun..wearing some very nice togs..
Having had a quick look at 'the other thread' I realise this is not the norm for kid models.

In support ds spent his £20 on the way home in Woolies on a hovercraft and dd banked hers asap.

Child exploitation? Not in this case.

IMHO Parent Politics are very similar with say ballet or pony club or saturday football, the only difference is the money flows to the kids family rather than away from it!

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Now what would you say if it allowed the mum to be a SAHM. My cousin was a child model (you would never think it now) and far as I know didn't do him any harm.

I would be uncomfortable with modeling as I do probably think it is exploiting or something similar but if the payback was that the family were able to have a better standard of living then maybe I understand it.

hideous. just let me parp myself...

ah my beauties how are you

an aef at the funds being usedt o by a hover craft
sweet

I much prefer clothes just to be shown lying flat on a pale background!
Or the cataogues where they are older kids just playing around - as Anteater says. Boden is ok. But bundling kids in and out of different outfits under studio lights - hideous.

Of course it's exploitation. but slagging off modelling mums on MN is like slagging off Victoria Beckham. Too damn easy.

FF's point that there is rather worse child exploitation around is a good one, I reckon.

Wouldn't put the Inferiorettes in for it, myself. It is occasionally suggested that they are prime Boden fodder, but also I do slightly think that probably most people get their children gushed over, as it's only polite to say 'oh, what stunning infants' and similar social mendacities.

Some of the kids on the Elisabeth Smith website are minging. Truly. Rancid little weasels.

if 'basic' child modelling - is explotation what the hell is \link{http://www.universalroyalty.com\this} type of thing????