So,heaven help me,I was watching "Toddlers and Tiara's" yesterday. Why I don't know, but I was. I know that is a terrible show and it's like watching a train wreck over and over again, but sometimes I get sucked in. I have seen many types of pageant mom and child ranging from "we did this because our child is shy and we thought that this may help with confidence" to "my child is GOING to be Miss America if I have to put cyanide in every other child's pixie stix!".
I have seen many mothers(and fathers)who push their children into this,are not particularly thin. There are ones who are former queens themselves who still maintain their figures, pushing their child to be "pretty because everybody LOVES pretty,right?".
Last night, I think I may have seen some of the worst parents I have yet to see on this show. Now, I am not sure HOW this pageant stuff is not turning our a generation of Type 2 diabetics across the South, but if the amount of soda, Pixie Stix, Red Bull and other assorted "go-go juice" type of ingredients that these children are plied with for energy sake, we are facilitating a generation of young children with attention span problems, blood sugar issues and body type issues.
One mother, I am not sure if she was a step or natural since the 6 year old girl who was one of the focus children called the mother by name. The mother was a vapid wide eyed blonde who was VERY into the pageant scene and said, on camera mind, in earshot of the child, that "they're favorite thing to at pageants is to make fun of the other moms because most of them are fat. Seriously, how much and what do you eat to make you so fat?! (Laughs)"
Later, when her child won "yet another B.S. crown" (meaning not one that carries prestige) the child was also horrified that the girl who won was "in 'WHAT are you wearing'". Nice attitude.
One father pushes his daughter into this along with new wife. They both are body builders and for some reason have pushed the 5/6 year old girl into this. he refuses to give her soda for energy because "it's bad for you" but then turns around,gives step-mom a Red Bull and tells her to "take her over there and have her drink it." (Meaning take her to the bathroom where the camera's can't go and do this so I'm not a public hypocrite.)
This is good parenting?
On the other hand, in the same show, we had a 3 year old girl, who clearly has a weight issue (and I do not mean to be nasty, but in a cold reality to the situation the child is too fat for pageants). Now, to her mothers credit, she feels that size doesn't matter and her daughter has done well in natural beauty contests, but this time was her first glitz pageant which is what you think of when you think pageant. She constantly bribed her child with treats,with the child knowing full well that if she held out,she would get a treat of candy to do what was required. They had even bribed her with a 32" flat screen (recently installed) to do her routine. The bi-racial child (African-American and Hispanic) is NOT allowed to play outside due to the fact that she may over tan! (I am ashamed to know this, but tans- preferably spray- are REQUIRED for ALL ages in a glitz pageant. Yes,babies are required to have a tan! Too dark of a tan is frowned upon.) The child would like to go out and play with her brothers, but according to her mother "she understands why she can't."
So,we are pumping this child full of sugar and NOT allowing her to exercise through play? Again, this is good parenting?
This last one, I saw briefly and this is on the internet news this morning. A 2 year old is given coffee and a homemade concoction called "Tinker Tea" which is soda,pre-made sweetened jug tea, and Pixie Stix, which is given to her DAILY, throughout her day! I love her mother's excuse. "Well all kids drink juice every day and that has sugar,right?"
I understand the idea that putting your child into a pageant may give them confidence and poise. Many of the children I see are better losers or winners than their parents. This is no better than the parent who forces their child into sports because they once played and want to relive former glory, regret not having played,or want their child to do better than they did in sports.
I cannot fathom HOW messed up these children will become with their health, both physically and mentally when you have parents who clearly don't have a clue. I saw one mother once who said she only had children so that they could be in pageants! Nice way to make your kid feel loved!
I do not get why I keep watching this show or how pageants keep getting more and more over the top, along with the parents. I mean, you have children being taken away from parents because the kids are overweight, but giving your child "Tinker Tea" is just fine? Seriously? How is that not child endangering? How is keeping a child from exercise she wants not neglect? How is teaching your child to laugh at fat people not creating a bully?
How is this o.k. and why are we allowing this show to keep airing?
I have seen many mothers(and fathers)who push their children into this,are not particularly thin. There are ones who are former queens themselves who still maintain their figures, pushing their child to be "pretty because everybody LOVES pretty,right?".
Last night, I think I may have seen some of the worst parents I have yet to see on this show. Now, I am not sure HOW this pageant stuff is not turning our a generation of Type 2 diabetics across the South, but if the amount of soda, Pixie Stix, Red Bull and other assorted "go-go juice" type of ingredients that these children are plied with for energy sake, we are facilitating a generation of young children with attention span problems, blood sugar issues and body type issues.
One mother, I am not sure if she was a step or natural since the 6 year old girl who was one of the focus children called the mother by name. The mother was a vapid wide eyed blonde who was VERY into the pageant scene and said, on camera mind, in earshot of the child, that "they're favorite thing to at pageants is to make fun of the other moms because most of them are fat. Seriously, how much and what do you eat to make you so fat?! (Laughs)"
Later, when her child won "yet another B.S. crown" (meaning not one that carries prestige) the child was also horrified that the girl who won was "in 'WHAT are you wearing'". Nice attitude.
One father pushes his daughter into this along with new wife. They both are body builders and for some reason have pushed the 5/6 year old girl into this. he refuses to give her soda for energy because "it's bad for you" but then turns around,gives step-mom a Red Bull and tells her to "take her over there and have her drink it." (Meaning take her to the bathroom where the camera's can't go and do this so I'm not a public hypocrite.)
This is good parenting?
On the other hand, in the same show, we had a 3 year old girl, who clearly has a weight issue (and I do not mean to be nasty, but in a cold reality to the situation the child is too fat for pageants). Now, to her mothers credit, she feels that size doesn't matter and her daughter has done well in natural beauty contests, but this time was her first glitz pageant which is what you think of when you think pageant. She constantly bribed her child with treats,with the child knowing full well that if she held out,she would get a treat of candy to do what was required. They had even bribed her with a 32" flat screen (recently installed) to do her routine. The bi-racial child (African-American and Hispanic) is NOT allowed to play outside due to the fact that she may over tan! (I am ashamed to know this, but tans- preferably spray- are REQUIRED for ALL ages in a glitz pageant. Yes,babies are required to have a tan! Too dark of a tan is frowned upon.) The child would like to go out and play with her brothers, but according to her mother "she understands why she can't."
So,we are pumping this child full of sugar and NOT allowing her to exercise through play? Again, this is good parenting?
This last one, I saw briefly and this is on the internet news this morning. A 2 year old is given coffee and a homemade concoction called "Tinker Tea" which is soda,pre-made sweetened jug tea, and Pixie Stix, which is given to her DAILY, throughout her day! I love her mother's excuse. "Well all kids drink juice every day and that has sugar,right?"
I understand the idea that putting your child into a pageant may give them confidence and poise. Many of the children I see are better losers or winners than their parents. This is no better than the parent who forces their child into sports because they once played and want to relive former glory, regret not having played,or want their child to do better than they did in sports.
I cannot fathom HOW messed up these children will become with their health, both physically and mentally when you have parents who clearly don't have a clue. I saw one mother once who said she only had children so that they could be in pageants! Nice way to make your kid feel loved!
I do not get why I keep watching this show or how pageants keep getting more and more over the top, along with the parents. I mean, you have children being taken away from parents because the kids are overweight, but giving your child "Tinker Tea" is just fine? Seriously? How is that not child endangering? How is keeping a child from exercise she wants not neglect? How is teaching your child to laugh at fat people not creating a bully?
How is this o.k. and why are we allowing this show to keep airing?
I am SO done with "Tiara's Make Mommies Nutso!"