How do you feel about child beauty pageants?

Question

What if both the mother and daughter do them together?? Is it more about the parent then??

Answer 1

I think they suck! Little kids have no business worrying about how beautiful they are or how they match up to another child. They should be playing in the mud and fingerpainting.

I know many people do this with their children and state their kids LIKE it. But when that’s all they know, how can they form their own opinion?

And mother/daughter pageants, no way! You won't see me in one of those things!

Answer 2

The same way I feel about adult beauty pageants:  they're sick.  Do we really need to be ranking people based on physical appearance? It's not an achievement.  It shouldn't even matter.  It feeds a cultural frenzy of obsession with weight, eating disorders, botox, spending outrageous amounts of money on designer clothes/ shoes/ bags/ makeup that would be so much better spent helping someone who really needed help.

Answer 3

i would only enter my kids in local pagents. like little carnival or fair ones. i have only done this once, and it was enough for me.

i find the problem with pagents is the media coverage. i personally would not like my child plastered all over the place. it makes me sick to imagine perverts thinking of my daughter in a perverted way, just looking at her picture, and you know, they do!!

the makeup and dresses and time away from home, money spent, etc. it gets ridiculous. i have never been interested,but i have heard of people that are. i also have read that it can change your childs self image. i wouldn't want my daughter to think that she is ugly or fat or not dressed right, based on another person that i don't even know, opinion. that is something that stays with kids for  a long time.

if you are wanting to do this and are having second thoughts, why not try a dancing class/competition? my daughter has done that for years, they dress up in these great outfits and dance in front of tons of people. they can win college scholorships and form long lasting friendships with their dancemates.let her be in a pagent when she is older around 17 and more sure of herself and what is on the inside.

Answer 4

That its more for the parents bragging rights than the kids.

Answer 5

I think they are despicable.  Not only do so many of these mothers spend money they don't really have to spare on hair extensions, makeup, dresses, dancing lessons, singing lessons, and pageant fees, but I feel it really teaches girls a poor lesson about focusing only on what's on the outside.  It seems like the freakier pageant moms are trying desperately to live vicariously through their daughters.

Frankly, when I see pictures of those little girls all made up, dressed up, and lined up on stage, it freaks me out.  They look like miniature call girls.  Perhaps their parents might do well to take the money they blow on pageants every year and start college funds for their daughters instead.

Answer 6

I don't care for them at all.

Covering their faces in makeup, making them strut around in tight dresses and bikinis, and teaching them that looking good is all you need to win is just wrong.

Let the little girls be kids, not models.

I was actually watching a pageant on TV today and one little girl goes, "But why did SHE win? I'm way prettier than her."

It's teaching them to judge at a very young age.

I'd rather my little girl play softball and paint than be in a pageant.  

Answer 7

They are atrocious and creepy!  The kids look like miniature adults...and promiscuous ones at that!  I wouldn't even agree with them if they didn't plaster the make-up on and prance around in little costumes.  What a way to give a child image issues and low-self esteem!  Why not have an "inner beauty" contest...let's see how many parents shove their kids into that.  Probably not many!

Answer 8

i think all beauty pageants are dumb

why're you teaching your child while they're young that being prettier than everyone else is important?

Answer 9

I'm not a fan.  I never think it's a good idea to dress your daughter up to look older than she is, throw way too much makeup on her face and then force her to parade around in front of people who are judging them based solely on their looks.  It sounds like a recipe for disaster.  Let's face it - beauty pagents are more for the parents than the child.  And what do you say when your kid loses?  "Sorry honey, I guess you're not as pretty as Mommy thought..."  Yeah, right.

Answer 10

When is it not about the parent for something like this?  Personally I don't like them. i think they are all in poor taste and put an unhealthy emphasis on physical appearance.  Girls especially do not need to grow up thinking if they aren't perfect looking they are nothing.  

Answer 11

With my little girl and my little sister, we have play fashion shows, not beauty pageants.

That way it isnt a competition, everyone has to make an outfit with mommys skirts and hats and necklaces.

Answer 12

Once in a while is plenty. I think.

Answer 13

I think it focuses on too many superficial things at too young of an age. They have their whole life's to worry about how they look, and if people like them, and if they are talented. Let their childhood be their childhood. There is so much to learn. I wouldn't waste this prime learning time to teach them how to "walk pretty". Self confidence can be taught in so many more ways then putting them on a stage.  

Answer 14

I dont really agree with them i think its making them grow up quicker than their time...Keep them young and having fun!!...Their kids keep them kids because they soon grow up!!...

Answer 15

i think they are gross. a little girl shouldnt wear make up or have her hair done!!  what do you think pediphiles get off on?...

Answer 16

They shouldn't take place. It has nothing to do with the child. It's the mother trying to relive her life through her daughter.