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Toddler & Tiara Mothers

            Now having focused on the whole picture of beauty pageants, I’d like to focus on Toddlers & Tiaras.  This show has been on since January of 2009.  Each season they have a cluster of girls that age range from three to ten.  Each background of the girls is typically the same: the moms are forcing the girls to live out their own dreams, the girls start to rebel, the girls get punished, on to the next pageant, etc.  Toddlers & Tiaras shows it all, on stage and off.  The show is really not good publicity for parents; they are showing their true color on television, for the whole world to see what they think is fit for their children.

                                              Favoratism

            On one particular episode of Toddlers & Tiaras, a mother puts in both of her children.  A five-year-old boy and a eight-year-old- girl.  Surprisingly enough, the mother was shown favoring her brown headed, dark skinned, blue eyed little boy than her blond headed, fare skin, blue eyed little girl.  The have different fathers.  She stated how her little boy would be a winner, and the little girl would learn how to accept defeat.  These are inhuman words to say about your own children.  Since when do parents openly favor one child over their other? These children are going to be affected in the long run and putting it on national television not only makes viewers feel bad for the kids, but it makes the parents look awfully sad.

Too Far?

Little girls are constantly getting exploited on this television show.  One show reportedly shows a little girl dressing up as Dolly Parton as her talent act. Dolly. Parton.  The small petite woman with breasts too large for anyone let alone a child.  The parents stuffed a bra for their daughter and also amplified her bottom to fit the part.  In another episode, the mother dressed her child up as the character Julia Roberts played in Pretty Woman.  Now, thinking it’s funny is a personal opinion, but when thought about realistically, it’s just sad.  A mother dressed her child up as a prostitute, literally.  This is overly insane how these mothers don’t see what the problem is!

            These mothers may get mad at the fact that so many people are against the idea of their child dressing up as Dolly Parton or the prostitute off of Pretty Woman, but they are setting themselves up for criticism from the public as soon as they get in front of that camera.  They seem to not care what it takes for their daughters to win.  They are willing to go through hoops if that is what it takes.  Toddlers & Tiaras does not need to be based on the mothers acting out, but more so on the pageant.  This show doesn’t make their girls look like super stars.  Instead, this show makes the children look like spoiled divas, due to their deranged mothers.



Pageant Girls

Unhappy

        The progress of

pageants in the past decade

has become astounding. Girls

can enter pageants as young as

three months old. Spray tans.

Flippers (False teeth). Risque

dance routines with outfits

beyond their years. Young

girls in pageants can get a

positive experience, but

ultimately girls come out with self esteem issues due to not winning and feeling the

disappointment of their parents. Their parents have spent hundreds of dollars in hopes that

their daugthers will be the winners. The kids have spent hours of practicing their routines.

Hours to fix their hair pieces, adjust their flippers and hemming their outfits. It can

definitely be devestating after all that to win nothing. 

       

The Pressure

        Mothers are more into the pageants than the daughters. They are willing to pay for

 anything that might get them a steop closer to winning. The entry fee alone is almost seven

 hundred dollars. From there you have to pay for your dress that can range from three

 hundred to three thousand dollars. The flippers are at least two hundred, if not more. You

 can spend well over three thousand dollars before even getting to the pageant with flippers,

 dresses, spray tans, hair pieces, perfessional training, entry fee, to get to the pageant

 location and to stay over night. Well I hate to disappoint people but there is only one winner

 and two runner ups. There are at least twenty girls. So what about everyone else? What do

 those people go home with? All the girls with the exception of three people, everyone goes

 home with empty pockets and heavy hearts. The parents are disappointed in their children

 and children can sense those things, expecially when a parent comes right out and says it to

 them as shown on Toddlers&Tiaras. As a child at that age, that is a lot of pressure to take

 one and it can take its toll.

The Influence

        The girls, who don't win and go home with nothing, feel a sense of hurt, as if they aren't

 good enough. Young girls are influenced by the pageants. It leads them to believe they have

 to look a certain way. These girls are under the age of five, so looks should be the least of

 their worries. They should be outside, playing in the dirt and riding bikes, not playin in

 make-up and riding constantly from city to city to be in pageants. They should be learning

 how to ride bikes without their training wheels, not learning new dance routines and

 wearing outfits beyond their years.

        Young girls under the age of five, learning the dance routines and wearing the



FAKE



 risque outfits, are only losing

their innocence. Not only that,

but looking twenty years old

instead of five is sending the

wrong message and attracting

some of the wrong people.

Parents should realize that if

you don't want to come in

contact with the wrong type of

company and deal with your

children growing up so fast, you

should not pile on the make-up, clip in hair pieces, give them fake teeth, fake nails, fake

eyelashes, and spray tan your children. They do not look like children, so what's the point of

the pageant. It is for a young division, but no one in the division looks YOUNG!

Overall

        When dealing with pageants you have to take the good with the bad. You may win, but

 it's not guaranteed. You spend thousands of dollars at a chance for a trophy that cost less

 than fifty dollars and a crown. It is not worth the time and the heartache. This proves that

 young girls and their families take more bad away than good. If their kids don't win they go

 home with nothing but diappointment. Pushing children to grow up to fast with all

the make-up and fake hair, eyelashes, tan, etc. is not beneficial and exposing them as

more than they really are, children. All these artificial things on their bodies are

only going to lower their self esteem in the long run. So when they don't win, after their

parents have spent hundreds of dollars and those children have been practicing for

hours, what do they do? How well do YOU think those young girls take that?