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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 460781" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I admit to sometimes watching the show and at times it is a bit like watching a train wreck - you just can't look away even if you want to. I wouldn't condemn all pageants though just because of what you see here. It's TELEVISION, and to keep it "interesting" they seem to zero in on the most outrageous, over-the-top parents and some of the brattiest, most obnoxious children. Like the mother who lets her horrid three year old push her around, call her names and scream at her and then smiles and calls that "personality" and thinks she will magically grow out of it when she's older! NOT! Or the wealthy woman who has a whole room full of thousand dollar pageant outfits for her infant twin daughters, one that's not even walking yet. Or the ones who push the child to the point of exhaustion and then give them a dozen Pixie Stix so they will be on a sugar high when they go on stage. Or the mother with two daughters who made it well known to everyone, including the children, that she considered one of them to be much prettier and much more talented than the other one. Or the woman who trotted her sleeping <em>eleven day old</em> son across the stage in a little newborn size tuxedo that she had ordered long before he was born, then was gushing about how well he did and what a natural he was!</p><p></p><p>But this is TELEVISION! It's a bit like watching Jerry Springer. They're going for the ratings. They seem to catch both the parents and the children at their very worst because that's what gets your interest, that's what gets people talking, and some of those parents don't seem to realize that they're doing that or how bad they're making some of them look. But that doesn't mean that all children who do pageants or their parents are that way. The majority of them are not. If the child's whole life and sense of self-worth is not centered around pageants, if they're not bankrupting the family with entry fees and pageant clothes, if the child really enjoys participating in pageants and it's just an occasional thing they like doing as part of a well rounded childhood, if they don't grow up thinking that their whole value as a person depends on how pretty they are and how many crowns they win, and if they don't grow up to be an obnoxious, self-centered little diva, then I have no problem with it. Everything is best in moderation.</p><p></p><p>And Mutt, I agree. I can't help thinking, with some of these people who spend thousands and thousands of dollars on pageants, how much better off would the child ultimately be if they put all that money into a college fund instead of spending it on fancy dresses, fake hair and teeth, spray tans and pageant coaches!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 460781, member: 1883"] I admit to sometimes watching the show and at times it is a bit like watching a train wreck - you just can't look away even if you want to. I wouldn't condemn all pageants though just because of what you see here. It's TELEVISION, and to keep it "interesting" they seem to zero in on the most outrageous, over-the-top parents and some of the brattiest, most obnoxious children. Like the mother who lets her horrid three year old push her around, call her names and scream at her and then smiles and calls that "personality" and thinks she will magically grow out of it when she's older! NOT! Or the wealthy woman who has a whole room full of thousand dollar pageant outfits for her infant twin daughters, one that's not even walking yet. Or the ones who push the child to the point of exhaustion and then give them a dozen Pixie Stix so they will be on a sugar high when they go on stage. Or the mother with two daughters who made it well known to everyone, including the children, that she considered one of them to be much prettier and much more talented than the other one. Or the woman who trotted her sleeping [I]eleven day old[/I] son across the stage in a little newborn size tuxedo that she had ordered long before he was born, then was gushing about how well he did and what a natural he was! But this is TELEVISION! It's a bit like watching Jerry Springer. They're going for the ratings. They seem to catch both the parents and the children at their very worst because that's what gets your interest, that's what gets people talking, and some of those parents don't seem to realize that they're doing that or how bad they're making some of them look. But that doesn't mean that all children who do pageants or their parents are that way. The majority of them are not. If the child's whole life and sense of self-worth is not centered around pageants, if they're not bankrupting the family with entry fees and pageant clothes, if the child really enjoys participating in pageants and it's just an occasional thing they like doing as part of a well rounded childhood, if they don't grow up thinking that their whole value as a person depends on how pretty they are and how many crowns they win, and if they don't grow up to be an obnoxious, self-centered little diva, then I have no problem with it. Everything is best in moderation. And Mutt, I agree. I can't help thinking, with some of these people who spend thousands and thousands of dollars on pageants, how much better off would the child ultimately be if they put all that money into a college fund instead of spending it on fancy dresses, fake hair and teeth, spray tans and pageant coaches! [/QUOTE]
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