Are kids’ beauty pageants just child’s’ play? Sure most little girls love to dress up, play with makeup, and at first thought a beauty pageant might seem like a fun thing to them. But what do you think about the parents that allow or even push their kids into competing in these events? At such a young age kids probably don’t know what they are getting into. They are mostly concerned with pleasing their parents. Most parents argue that beauty pageants serve as confidence boosters, that they help kids learn about life, and that they allow kids become more social in the long run. This may be true for the few that win, but what about those that don’t? Often, they feel inferior and upset. They didn’t win and they let their parents down. Honestly, who wants to put their child in the posistion where she doesn’t feel good enough? Beauty pageants don’t even measure naturally beauty. Parents have become obsessed to point where they make their kids wear loads of makeup, extensions, and even fake teeth! I believe this behavior destroys the whole innocence of the pageant.
When I was younger, I remember being interested in beauty pageants at some point. I thought it would be so fun to be crowned as the prettiest girl in the room. However, my mom was completely against letting me compete. She didn’t want anyone ever telling her little girl that she wasn’t good enough or that she wasn’t the most beautiful person up on the stage. Yet, some moms disagree. One beauty pageant mom was quoted saying, “I want my child to be aware that there’s always going to be somebody better than her. It’s a hard thing to learn- it was for me- and I want her to start early”. How awful is this comment? Why would you want to set your child up for failure? Parents should be encouraging them at this age and let them think that they can do what ever they want, not that they will never be good enough. But what do you all think about pageants? Are they simply harmless fun?
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I think that beauty contests can be both a good and bad thing. I think that the whole concept of beauty contests is not harmful. Competing to win a scholarship or to promote and make a change concerning a specific issue is all very good. However, the young age that kids have been getting involved with the contests in sort of alarming. Back in the 1st grade or anywhere around that time, I can't say that I was very conscious of my appearance and doing myself up in the morning. I don't know if I could have handled those beauty pressures at such a young age. I remember watching an episode of the simple life this summer where young girls came to the camp. It was incredible how much they looked like little dolls with their bleeced teeth, full face of makeup, and done up hair. I think that starting beauty pagents that young is a bit ridiculous.
I can't think of one good thing to say about beauty pageants for little girls--or for big girls either. These contests put all the emphasis on the exterior, and a fake one it is at that. For perfect evidence, we can thank "Aixela" for the link to Miss South Carolina's intellectual melt-down in the Miss Teen USA Contest. If you haven't seen it yet, here's the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww&NR=1
If you haven't seen "Little Miss Sunshine" it makes a hysterically funny comment on the supposedly cute and harmless sexing up of the little girls in these pageants.
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