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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?
I totally agree with this blog. I watch Toddlers&Tiaras frequently and I always feel sorry for the kids. Most of the parents do it because they feel as if it will benefit them. I think pageants lower the childs self esteem because not every child wins.
ReplyDeleteBeauty pageants should be an exciting and fun hobby that a little girl is interested in. Parents should not force these young children to grow up this fast, allowing them to wear hair extensions, fake nails, makeup, false teeth, etc. is way over the top. As you stated these little girls should be outside riding bikes and playing in the dirt. These beauty pageants are just what they are forced to do by their parents. I've watched a few beauty pageants on television and majority of the time the child is acting out. Parents put more pressure on themselves by being involved with pageants. On television there are parents who quit their jobs just to fulfill the dreams that they have had. It is actually a complete waste of time. The young children are forced, and left disappointed at the end. So there is your question "How well do you think these young girls take that?" I think some young girls are heartbroken, well at least the ones who are able to understand. Others, I think that the parents are more disappointed than the child being that they have spent so much money, time and effort into one beauty pageant. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with your blog. Beauty pageants shouldn't be forced upon a child unless the child is interested. As you stated Beauty pageants are pushing the child to grow up to fast with the make up, fake nails, and eyelashes. I also think that a child that is 3 months old shouldn't be allowed to participate in a beauty pagenant.I haven't watched any beauty pageants on t.v, therefore I wasnt aware of some things talked about in this blog. However your post gave me insight about beauty pagenants and some of the pressure faced with them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your blog!! I feel so bad for these little girls whose mothers push them to do this. The mothers are making their children do it because they didn't have the chance win they were younger. Also I ate how they judge, to judge a child on if she is beatuiful or not is terrible because every little girl is beautiful in their own way.Can't wait to see your next post!
ReplyDeleteI agree with your blog, as well the other comments posted on the blog. Parents should encourage their children to pursue whatever they want to do and make sure they are enjoying it. These parents are spending thousands of dollars for no reason; their child is not enjoying it, they are not winning, and the money that could be used for something else is being wasted. This post made a lot of valid points.
ReplyDeleteThis blog brings awareness to pageants because a lot of times we get so into watching them we forget the pressure behind what they do just to get on stage. I agree with what you are saying. I feel as though parents should wait to find out what their child is truly interesting in before putting so much money behind something they do not enjoy and something that may be damaging to their self esteem. Its just not fair. Even though I love pageants I think parents should think less of themselves and more about their child and their childs future.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with your blog because the parents will tell their child,"oh honey it's goin to be fine". They try to make them feel better but little do they know they are really making it worst.
ReplyDeleteYou put soo much in for little return. I watch these shows on Lifetime and it amzes me what people put their daughters through just for a trophy.
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