I have always hated beauty contests for children and never understood a mother's need to do this to their daughters. It's just wrong in so many ways. This is a video clip from the show Toddlers and Tiaras showing a mother having her 5 year old daughter's eyebrows waxed. Come on people! What the heck is wrong with you! Am I overreacting to this or do others find this abusive?
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01-14-2011, 03:57 AM #1
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This is so wrong!
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01-14-2011, 04:11 AM #2
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I'm with you!!!!!! Talk about a little girl with no childhood. I can't stand those pageants. I have seen little girls walking in high heels, really!!!!????!!!!! I can't believe they made a TV show out of it.
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01-14-2011, 04:14 AM #3
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Parent(s) living out their dreams through their children. Extreme version.
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01-14-2011, 04:33 AM #4
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Isn't that the truth? So pathetic on the parent's part and so sad for the kids. Most of them don't even seem to enjoy it (and they look like plastic dolls on the stage). Ick!
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Why don't we just keep perpetuating a sick/twisted version of beauty... those girls won't be messed up at all or anything...
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01-14-2011, 04:34 AM #5
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They should require them to watch "Little Miss Sunshine" when they enter. Not that any of them would probably get it.
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01-14-2011, 05:33 AM #6
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Ugh; every time I see a commercial for that show, I want to throw my tv out the nearest window. The parents are nuts, and the children are brats. Most of the families they profile aren't exactly loaded, and yet they spent thousands and thousdands of dollars on this cr*p. It makes me crazy.
Whew; I'm glad I got that off my chest!
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01-14-2011, 06:06 AM #7
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Wow. Just wow. I don't even know what to say.
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01-14-2011, 06:18 AM #8
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I cannot understand this type of thing. I would love to find out how the kids feel about it years later.
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