It's not a new show, but still, I can't control my myself. I have to write about Toddlers in Tiaras.
Here are some wicked generalizations. The moms all think they aren't stage moms, but I'm wondering if they change their opinion after seeing their ridiculousness on the show. "I want her to feel good about her inner beauty." Okay, so then why try to make your three-year-old look like an adult and prance her around a stage for people to judge her in a "beauty" category? "She is the one who wants to do the pageants, I don't push her." Flash-forward to the day of the pageant and you see the kid crying about getting her eyebrows waxed, hair pins stuck in her head, and that she's tried. My favorite was last week when a child said she was hungry early in the pageant day and Mom told her, "You can't eat until the pageant is over." Yeah, that doesn't sound crazy.
I'm not against pageants. There are some kids who just love them. I knew a little girl like that. She was really motivated and, I swear, her and her mom had a great attitude about them. It was time together doing something they both enjoyed. Who can criticize that? What bugs me so much about the show is that these are the types of parents featured. Worse, they are salivating to have their child included, neglecting to recognize the colossal humiliation at risk for the child if she doesn't do well. Not only did she fail in front of these pageant people, but the whole world too. No pressure there. Sickening.
