It's always cute to see little ones act older. We fall in love with the glimmer in children's eyes as they dress up and put on a show for their elders... but at what costs do we expend little girls who compete in child beauty pageants for about an hour of dress up and 'modeling'. Is it really just for the fun of it, to have little girls perform and look pretty (what little girl doesn't like that) and just to make friends? On TLC's "Toddlers in Tiaras" viewers watch mothers spend fortunes on frilly dresses, spray tans, runway coaches, and the ever important child dentures. Mothers of these "walking porcelain dolls" say that it is just for the fun of it, and for competing purposes...if their daughters don't want to compete, then they don't have to. However, Ana Veciana-Suarez condemns the show as well as the mothers who exploit their daughters in her article
Tiny-tot Pageants Amount to Child Abuse. If you ask me 3 years old is way to young of an age to even be near lipstick, but to each their own. When I was younger I always wanted to be center of attention, dressed in pretty clothing... but I exhibited my talents in different fashions. What are your thoughts of child beauty pageants?
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