Personally I dislike the idea of child beauty pagents. The whole idea of dressing up a girl of 10 or 11 in a full face of make up and wearing a ballgown smacks of a parent living through their child.
It also seems to be wrong to make such pretty children grow up so quickly. Some of the 11-13 year olds looked 15+. They have their whole lives to be adults and to live like that. Further more the girls seem to become sexualised far far too young - the dancing is often saucy and the girls are encouraged to use flirtatious expressions to win the judges attention. In a world obsessed with child security and paediphillia, this encouraged sexual behaviour seems out of place

I was watching ‘Sasha: beauty queen at 11′. Sasha was lovely - and maybe people will say I’m being bitter because I could clearly never compete in a pagent, even should I want to. but it seems to be wrong. Sasha often seemed uncomfortable and unsure of how she was meant to be behaving. Especially with her mother around who seemed just as interested in how much attention she could get for herself as for her daughters modeling career (the repeated reason given for pushing Sasha)
The mother herself was a model but her career was shortlived and started late. Altho the mother continuously said it was “about sasha”, she said many times ‘I’d like to do this - I should do this I could win this etc etc.’ Also when the attention was not on mother and daughter and just on daugher, she was very vocal about how boring it was.
A different pagent mum said “sasha could do very well. but it would be sasha’s success. not her mothers.” And that, to me, was a poignitent comment.

Maybe I’m being overly harsh, and I’m sure the girls love it. Dressing up as a princess would be incredible. I just dont understand why some parents would push so hard when the child wasn’t enjoying themselves. One grandma said “shes become my hobby” Wierd much?
But what harm is there and what is wrong with being proud of your child? None.
Whats wrong with pushing your child to live for your dream not theirs? Every thing.

Lotsa Love
Kat
xxx