Okay...overall I do not think beauty pageants are bad. However I have watched Toddlers and Tiaras a few times. When a 3 year-old has fake hair pieces, fake eye lashes, fake teeth/teeth whitening and tan...there is a problem. Also, butt glue!?!?! Do you know what butt glue is?! Well it is stuff that you spray on to keep a bathing suit from riding up...what 3-year-old needs butt glue?!?!
I've been watching the show this afternoon...I've seen these little girls show more skin then I've shown in my whole life and are wearing more makeup then I wear in a week.
I've watched mothers make children get on stage and watched mothers promise their kids things just to get the kids to do what they want. There was a lady on today's show that moved back into her mom's house so she could afford to pay for her little girl's pageants.
I'm pretty sure that if a mom is middle of the road or let's their girl decide if they want to be in pageants aren't going to be on the show. So I know that all "pageant moms" aren't like the ones that are on the show...
Just venting....
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I wanted to put Rodney in the Little Mister Greenbrier pageant so bad! Jeff said 'absolutely not'. Now I agree.
My niece, Logan, was in a pageant at three years old and I had another niece in a pageant at five. Both ended horribly. They didn't win and even their mommies and daddies couldn't make it up to them. It was traumatic!!
Have you seen Little Miss Sunshine? (Very bad language, but it's another look at a beauty pageant experience going awry.)
And don't even ask me about the time I was in the Miss Greenbrier pageant and only walked away with a 'participant' ribbon. It took years to rebuild my poise after that (one and only) pageant experience. Jessica was in it too. You can ask her for all the dirty details. Let me just say, we both thudded off stage with no honor.
Pageants stink! But I sure do like to watch the Miss America with a bowl of popcorn, some chocolate, and a critical attitude.
Whew! I guess I needed to vent on the subject as well!!!
And all God's women said, "Amen." It takes nerve to say the unpopular thing, but I for one am sure glad you did. Plus, it's nice to have someone else say it besides me! :) hee hee
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