Have any of you ever seen the movie 'Whatever happened to Baby Jane" with Bette Davis? (ok, it's older than most of us and black and white, so I don't expect everyone to appreciate classics like myself lol)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - IMDb
In a nutshell, "Baby Jane" was a 'child star' and while an adult, she was bonkers. Wanting to be 'Baby Jane" again, but of course couldn't be (there's a whole lot more to the story).
Anyhow, my point is this: WHAT IS THE EFFECT all this Pageant stuff having on the children long term?
I'm all for children
playing dress-up, but Pageants are a long way off from that game.
Adults are encouraging and condoning small children wearing makeup, heels, spray tans, hair extensions etc etc etc AND rewarding them for being the 'prettiest'.
WHAT message is that sending to the children?
Let's not forget all the pressure these young children are under.
It's disgusting. From all I've read on it, seen of it; I haven't seen anything positive come of it, long term, for these children.
Added to that, what else is taking place that we don't know about? In addition to the Botox.
We chose to pull our children from the T-ball league this year (softball aka baseball) because last year, there were 'fixed' teams in two divisions (causeing a re-division of teams part way through the season) and parents encouraging their children to cheat to win, parents encouraging their children to laugh at opposing players when they didn't do well, etc etc etc...
We wanted our children to learn sportsmanship, and team work and instead they were receiving very very negative messages.
It's all about Parents being far too competitive (whether it's the t-ball or pageants), taking things too far, and forgetting about the children's needs while suffused with their own need for success.
Some people simply shouldn't be allowed to procreate.
This "mother" obvioulsy has no real idea of how to be a mother and in my opinion, should not get away with it.
