How do we feel about child beauty pageants?
They seem to be becoming more popular in America, more expensive to be part of, and more competitive among the parents.
Do you think children should be competing for beauty, spending time and money with (at-times revealing) costumes, make-up and accessories? Or is it all for fun and just another form of entertainment/hobby for children and parents?
Who do you think child beauty pageants are for? The parents or the child? Are those that focus their childhood competing monthly or annually in beauty pageants losing their childhood? Are they being introduced to unnatural perspectives of beauty that exist in society?
According to Arizona State University nutrition professor, Martha Cartwright states that adults benefit from pageants through an emotional state called, "achievement by proxy distortion" (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry). She also believes that parents fail to notice the damaging effects of their child's self-esteem.
The hit TLC TV series, Toddlers and Tiaras, centers around the beauty contests' pageants and the lives of their family/home life. One contestant, Alana Thompson, age 6, known as 'Honey Boo Boo' gained fame for her unique family home-life and for her "Go Go Drinks", which is a mixture of red bull and Mountain Dew. This drink that her mother gives her before pageants has as much caffeine as 2 cups of coffee!
There is a lot of criticism seen from these beauty pageants. Are there any positives? You be the judge.
Watch an episode of Toddlers and Tiaras and watch an episode with Honey Boo Boo.
Share your thoughts below.
They seem to be becoming more popular in America, more expensive to be part of, and more competitive among the parents.
Do you think children should be competing for beauty, spending time and money with (at-times revealing) costumes, make-up and accessories? Or is it all for fun and just another form of entertainment/hobby for children and parents?
Who do you think child beauty pageants are for? The parents or the child? Are those that focus their childhood competing monthly or annually in beauty pageants losing their childhood? Are they being introduced to unnatural perspectives of beauty that exist in society?
According to Arizona State University nutrition professor, Martha Cartwright states that adults benefit from pageants through an emotional state called, "achievement by proxy distortion" (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry). She also believes that parents fail to notice the damaging effects of their child's self-esteem.
The hit TLC TV series, Toddlers and Tiaras, centers around the beauty contests' pageants and the lives of their family/home life. One contestant, Alana Thompson, age 6, known as 'Honey Boo Boo' gained fame for her unique family home-life and for her "Go Go Drinks", which is a mixture of red bull and Mountain Dew. This drink that her mother gives her before pageants has as much caffeine as 2 cups of coffee!
There is a lot of criticism seen from these beauty pageants. Are there any positives? You be the judge.
Watch an episode of Toddlers and Tiaras and watch an episode with Honey Boo Boo.
Share your thoughts below.