Toddlers And Tiaras

When most people think of beauty pageants, they think of Barbie-like little girls with their tiny bedazzled dresses and swimsuits strutting their stuff on stage while showing off their million dollar smile. The pageant judges watch their every move looking for a mistake in their routine while an audience of mostly moms screams, applauds, and cheers for them behind the line of judges, showing the girls the exact moves they are supposed to be doing. “A beauty pageant is an assembly of girls or women at which judges select the most beautiful (Cartwright).”

The last reason as to why child beauty pageants have a positive impact on children is because they can earn scholarship money to the college of their choice. For example, a 15 year-old, Nicola Dalryimple, former winner of Trinidad and Tobago Pageant, received a $5,000 scholarship to a college of her choice (“Trinidad and Tobago” 1-2). The many people who say that beauty pageants are nothing but beauty

“It doesn’t matter if you can breathe. All that matters is if you look good”. Just Googling the search term “beauty pageants coming up,” will result in 2,710,000 results appearing in 1.18 seconds. Children are the fastest-growing segment of the beauty pageant market, with annual children's competitions attracting an estimated 3 million children, mostly girls, ages six months to 16 years, who compete for crowns and cash. Infants, carried onto the stage by their mothers, are commonplace. April Brilliant, reigning Mrs. Maryland and the director of Maryland-based Mystic Pageants, says pageants give little girls a chance to "play Cinderella." However, playing ‘Cinderella’ can cause children to develop insecurities or self-hatred if they don't

“Toddlers and Tiaras” was a hit television show that premiered on the channel TLC on December 12, 2008.  “Toddlers and Tiaras” ranked up a number of two million viewers per episode, which went on for seven seasons.  This show was so successful that a sequel called “Another Toddlers and Tiaras” aired on August 24, 2016.  “Toddlers and Tiaras”, not surprisingly, took a look into the lives of young pageant queens and what goes on behind the stage and all the makeup.  Many, but not all, young girls love to dress up and wear their mother’s high heels, but this trend has been taken up a notch in the last few decades with prizes and money now at stake.  Some people consider, what is being called child beauty pageants, cute, while some believe that it is disgusting and ruining children.  In this article, the different viewpoints on child beauty pageants can show as to why it can affect a child’s development positively and negatively.

with trends in girl culture and reveals insights into the ideologies about the construction and positions of female minors. The program shows that it is utilisable for the construction and positions of pageants obstinate certainty about girlhood identity. The girls on Toddlers & Tiaras are a component of a “docile-bodies” during the pageant makeover process. They are offered with inhibited power and must submit to the will of their parents and the pageant expert to become someone whom they are not supposed to be. The programs additional depicts an excruciating desire for fame and celebrity as demonstrated through their parent in an effort to make their

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TLC’s American reality television show named Toddlers & Tiaras aired in 2009 with glamour, glitz and drama. This show documents the life of young girls and their mothers dramatically preparing for glamour pageants across America. Involving girls being tightened into millionaire rhinestone dresses, spray tanned, forced into fake teeth, hair, eyelashes and nails by demanding mothers. In addition, learning how to strut, pout, smile, wave and look the prettiest to please the panel of judges. All of this resulting in mountains of cash, glistening tiaras, sashes and most importantly the honour of

In “Beauty Pageants Draw Children and Criticism” by Kristen Schultz and Pleshette Murphy, it discusses how girls from infants to 16 years old enter beauty pageants and those who support beauty pageants would say this is a great way for girls to play like cinderella but they don’t realize

I remember being home one day, surfing through the television channels. I stumbled on TLC, and saw a show named Toddlers in Tiaras. The show is about child beauty pageants and all the work children have to do, and also all the money parents put into it. It portrays how crazy some moms could be, and how spoiled some children are. Beauty pageants can boost confidence and self-esteem, but it is degrading to women all over the world. Only one part deals with intelligence, but that doesn’t prove anything. Someone could easily come up with an answer out of thin air, say it out loud and everyone would think she is brilliant because of how much words they say. Child beauty pageants deprive children of their childhood. Parents become obsessed with winning and they take away the joy that their children could possibly have while in or preparing for a pageant. The controversial question on beauty pageants is: Does competing in beauty pageants adversely affect child development? My answer is yes it does, and in the following I will explain why.

‘It’s on you, the whole thing, all the money, all the work. It’s on you’. This is what one mother said to her 4 year old daughter before sending her on stage. Imagine if you had a beautiful little girl and you decided to spray tan her, dress her provocatively, tweeze her eyebrows, give her fake hair, nails, teeth and pounds of makeup. Is this really how a little girl should be raised?

When when Olive is required to compete in the talent category of the competition she unintentionally performs a striptease that was taught to her by her drug-addicted grandfather. When Olive’s sexually suggestive performance is faced with horror from the audience, her family supports her by jumping on the stage and performing similarly suggestive sexual dance moves. Ironically, the audience judges the parents as encouraging ‘adult-like’ behaviour and leaves the auditorium in disgust, while pageant officials unsuccessfully try to stop the performance. The pageant officials act as gender police and try to interfere in the performance as a mechanism of controlling Olive’s deviant behaviour. Beauty pageants are a justified practice through the belief that femininity and sexuality is a form of female empowerment, however, it contributes and perpetuates patriarchal

Cyndi is a pageant judge and also helps giving tips for modeling and pageants. Little Girl Pageant Tips was published in 2014 giving a very helpful tip many parents may still not know about because the try to make the girls perfect and take away their personality. This video was meant for parents or children around the ages of 5 to 9 which helped me answer my essential question that kids growing up in pageants have a lot of pressure to be perfect and most parents probably don’t see how stressful that is on a little girl. This was a 7.37 long video but had a problem with her camera and this led her to repeat herself a couple of times. This is her opinion not all judges or parents may see it like she does. Little Girl Pageant Tips has a couple

Beauty pageants have been around in America for decades; however, they have not gained notoriety until the show "Toddlers and Tiaras" aired on national television. The airing of "Toddlers and Tiaras" has brought child pageants to the attention of many Americans. Not many people were aware of what took place in beauty pageants, but ever since the show debuted in 2009 there has been an intense controversy about children as young as newborns being entered into pageants. Some people say that pageants raise self-esteem and teach responsibility, whereas others say that pageants are necessary and children should take advantage of their youth. Although pageants teach etiquette and communication skills, ultimately they carry a vastly high

Sometimes, children like to participate in contest because they wanted to get prizes, and it’s good to travel the world, letting other people know who they are. They can begin to do charity work and can get as much as benefits they can get. “Pageants proved to be both a negative and positive influence depending on their surroundings. Pageants that regulate make-up usage, sexuality and competition are recognized to be great experiences for children” (Nussbaum). Not only kid can win prizes and award, but they can also get all the experience that they will never get to have. Child beauty pageants help children explore their inner self and be more

The TLC Show, “Toddlers and Tiaras,” is not an accurate representation of all that goes into preparing children for pageants. The show dramatizes the mostly the negative side of childhood beauty pageants. It depicts competitors that want to win strictly based on appearance. Despite the bad reputation that beauty pageants have, they equip young men and women with skills and opportunities such as chances to win scholarships, improving self-confidence and promoting social skills.