Do you think it is right to put your child in a beauty pagent? Why?

Question

I have mixed feelings about this but mostly bad because putting your child in those are making them older than they really are.

Then again it does tech some life lessons.

Answer 1

local fair pageants where its a 1 time thing is OK but regular pageants NO kids have to grow up so soon now a days anyway so why speed it up any more.

Answer 2

No....I'm totally against anything that makes children compete against each other based on physical beauty.

Answer 3

I don't think it's right, because it shows the child that only their looks are important.

Answer 4

you don't learn anything from pagents except maybe how competitve some parents can be. I think pagents are awful when the child is older like 13 and older maybe it's fine because then they can decide  but if they are lil toddlers they can't decide for themselves and I don't like the fact that they put makeup on children that young. I watched a documentary on pagents and the moms where AWFUL they yelled at their daughters if they messed up and yelled at other people's kids they even teased the other kids if they did bad it was terrible some mother's force their children to do these pagents and the kids don't want to. one mother made her daughter stay up until 2 am practicing when her daughter had school! I was horrified I would never do that do my daughter

Answer 5

WAHT LIFE LESSONS? can you name them? putting your child in a pagent will ultimatly  bring out aa heap load of insecurities and dolubtt. child should be children, not forced cinto doing something that is only acceptable for a grwon young woman. have you not how 9 year ols are dressing these days? tey are dressing as if they are 20 with make up and S****y outfits. do not put your child in2 a environment where she is forced to grow up and lose the child innocence.you should hold on to that innocence for as long as you can. and seriuosly, what ;ife lessons can be learned from something that is all about what matters on the outside?

Answer 6

I'll probably get some thumbs down for this, but I think that beauty pageants don't really teach any life lessons. Beauty pageants  creep me out beyond belief.

The same lessons about discipline, winning and losing gracefully, and healthy competitiveness can be learned if the kid participates in a science fair, in a music band, or in sports.

Answer 7

I think that if they want to, you should put them in one but don't force them into it. I think I would have had a blast if I got to wear make up and dress up when I was little. So, no I'm not against it but I'm not for all those parents forcing their children and they cry and stuff, that's just mean.

Answer 8

I think it's cute, as long as you don't get caught up in it and let your daughter be dragged everywhere.  Once a year or a bit more isn't bad.  Competitive?  I think that's just insane.

Answer 9

Well if you want to dress your daughter up like a strumpet and have her dance provocatively in front of a panel of judges, then go right ahead.

I cannot see any lesson of any value that could possibly be gained from a beauty pageant.  There is so much more to life than fake tan and hairspray, and skills that are far more valuable than training to be a performing monkey.  

Kids today are growing up too fast as it is - don't accelerate that process even further.  Let her be a little girl and retain the innocence of childhood for as long as she can.

Answer 10

It emphasizes the "importance" of vanity, which is already totally out of control with all these waif like super models.  

I don't see the value of reinforcing a destructive mindset of "perfection" being mandatory.

She doesn't need to walk a runway, and wear a crown to be beautiful or to love herself or to be loved...

I don't think there are any life lessons taught there that outweight the altered perceptions of vanity that are also taught there.

Aside from growing up to fast...I think there's a much more damaging consequence there...I just don't get why people do it.  

It's like taking your prized pig to the county fair so it can win a ribbon...It's just not right.

Answer 11

i would only let my child go in one of those pageants only if she desperately wanted that i honestly don`t like them because it just  dosen`t sound right to put a little girl in one of those.

Answer 12

Depends on the child and how interested SHE is in doing this.

You don't say how old she is and I'm sure she's a beautiful girl. But that kind of competition and possibly rejection at an early age may not be so good for the self-esteem. I'd just be very careful about what I was getting my daughter in to.

Answer 13

Well the truth is might me fun but a tthe same time u have a lot of pressure when u are in beauty pagents because m mom was in one of those and she told me this. she said that there are many inapropiate behaviored girls she says that sometimes its not good to be in one because  sometime you become really s****. and a different person that only cares about themself. Once your in a beauty pagent, you become very competetive with other girls and never get friends. So I say No, don't ever them in one.

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Answer 14

No.  Little girls being made up to look like little mini street walkers doesn't teach life lessons.  

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Answer 15

i dont think its right at all. a lot of the children in these are as young as 1 or 2 and dont have the ability to make decisions, they dont want to be in these pagents their parents do!!

if they are brought up being made to look and act older than they are children will get mixed messages and could subsequently by pass their childhood.

this isnt an important life lesson its just wrong!!

Answer 16

if they want to be in it you can