Reply #20: I'm going to be extremely judgemental here when it comes to these beauty pageants... [View All]

[LynneSin]

I've watched the TV shows - when you flip through the channels and one of those shows are on it's like passing a trainwreck, you almost have to watch to see just how incredibly awful these mothers are to their very young children.

The standard answer any mom will give (even the Botox injecting mom) is this: My child wants to do this, they asked to do this, I'm only fulfilling their wishes.

But any person with a semester of child psychology under their belt can tell you this - a young child doesn't have enough experience in life to make major decisions like this. At age 8 or even younger their experience is things like 'I prefer Carrots over Peas' or 'I like Spongebob better than Dora the Explorer'. To be involved in these adult things means they see an adult do it and they want to mimic it.

And the mothers, these bulk of these mothers who push their kids into pageants probably need serious mental counselling. Many of these women look like they're trying to live vicariously thru their kids. Maybe these moms had issues with self-esteem so they did tried to deal with it thru their young kids "I wasn't pretty enough but I'm gonna make sure people see that my daughter is pretty enough". It's really warped thinking.