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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
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
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
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risque outfits, are only losing
their innocence. Not only that,
but looking twenty years old
their innocence. Not only that,
but looking twenty years old
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
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?
