Emily P
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I personally think it's horrible.
There is a line that you do not cross when it comes to little girls.
I understand putting them in ballet class, and then wearing makeup for a recital, or playing dress up and wearing entirely too much makeup.
But as for pageants definitely not!
Kids should be playing outside and playing games.
not going to Tanning beds and getting their eyebrows done.
I wouldn't enter my child in one, esp. not one of the really extreme freaky kinds.
It's really sad, they need to learn that there are way more important things then beauty |
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captainbluey
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This is child abuse, I find it abhorrent. |
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giraffe boy
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Oh dear, their mums clearly use them to fulful their own dreams and fantasies. These poor kids get dragged across the country like showdolls and it costs the parents big bucks for all the costumes, accommodation and travelling etc. Of course the kids themselves will say they enjoy it, it's all they know and they have an encouraging parent telling them all the time it's what they want. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not.
On a side note, Little Miss Sunshine is a cracker of a film. |
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Paula B
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I don't like these photos at all I find them stomach churning. That seems a bit strong but that's how I feel..It is so wrong to plaster these girls faces with huge amounts of make up .. It is grotesque..If they must enter these competitions they should enter as themselves...As they are no bouffonted hair and no make up. |
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i think its wrong because its pressuring little girls. and it sometimes causes them to grow up faster and act more mature than they're really supposed to be. |
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Orla C
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That little girl is a paedophile's dream date.
That's just wrong, it's freakish and disgusing and any parent who gets their children into this should be .... well, convicted of a crime at least. |
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StephT
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I think its kind of creepy and not healthy for the kids. |
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Morgan C
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poor girls.
the last one looks so unhappy |
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gofyourselfloser
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Is this how prostitutes are made? |
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Dark and Stormy Night
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This should be considered a form of Abuse. I live in New York and I have yet to see this here. It is more in the Southern States. It's totally ludicrous. Even my girls think so. The way these parents teach these girls to focus so much on beauty instead of brains is sinful. These poor kids. They look scary. The only group of people I can see watching this are the people that do this themselves, people that are just curious and can't believe their eyes and pedophiles. |
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Éirerua
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I hate hate when I see pictures of children like this. My boyfriends sister took even worse pictures then these if you can believe, of her 10 year old sister and her friends.
These kind of pictures make me soooo angry, and I think pictures like these are exactly why young girls today are taking half nude pictures of themselves and putting them up on there bebo profiles, my space etc... etc... |
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ash1
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i think it is so wrong and no i would never enter my kids in them. They look like little women in those pics. Its just teaching them that appearance is the most important thing in life...when they grow up theyll prob have low esteem or be very shallow. Its sad. Kids that age should be out playing and getting dirty, not worrying about their nails and make up. |
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I should be doing something else
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Personally I don't agree with it. Let kids be kids I say. This is making them grow up far too fast.
I don't know how things are here, but I watched a documentary about child beauty pageants in the USA and the parents were all consumed by it, most of them spending hours travelling, going to pageant after pageant, and I even saw one of the little girls being shouted at by her mother and grandmother for not getting placed high enough.
I think in a lot of cases it is the parents living out their dreams through their kids. |
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slipstreamer
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I find it very sad...and repulsive. These parents should have just gotten dolls and left it at that. I am in the US, and I am very sad to hear that this awful trend/business has migrated to Ireland. Why not just let the children be children?
Just repulsive. |
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IRISH AND PROUD
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its so wrong they look like dolls gone wrong!
lie in friends when rachel entered her child in one!!!
its horrible for parents to enter there children in them!! |
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♥ Lucy ♥
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Jesus Christ, thats bloody child abuse!
Are you sure the last one is actually a person? Not a barbie doll? Sure looks like one... |
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Tid
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Children, and more so little girls, should be left to be what they are. Little girls, with the clothes and make up etc, it no longer leaves the impression they are children anymore, more like adults. And it just disgusts me to think what some sicko could be thinking looking at those pictures. I personally wouldn't put my daughter through that form of child abuse. |
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The 2nd One Scared Me =P |
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Madz
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I think its terrible! I'm from Canada and there's a tv show series on now called "Toddlers and Tiaras". I watched it a couple times to see what it was all about. In one competition in Texas, mothers can actually compete *against* their daughters!
As well, the show often makes the kids seem like little divas/brats. Granted some kids do enjoy the 'glamour' but for others its obvious the parents are forcing them. I think the natural, make-up free contests are somewhat tolerable, if the kids choose. But 7 year olds shaving their legs? Two year olds wearing mascara? Fake eyelashes? Horrendous!
Not to mention, all the horrid toxins/chemicals in make-up/hair products/etc. Its bad enough that we as adults use these products, but to put them on a child, when they're still growing? Exposing them like that...blech! |
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Graham
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I didn't know this went on in Ireland, its very wrong & I thought we'd be more clever than that. |
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scarbouro
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very disturbing they are wearing more makeup then any average adult.there poor skin!its not right and look how unhappy they are.the last girl is forcing a smile! |
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GRACE G
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Well, when the little girls enjoy being dressed up it is great. Some have that personality. However, my sister put her little boy in pageants and yes he won, but he hated it and she used to yell and threaten him. And then try to bribe him into competing. No he didn't have all the makeup, but the outfits were uncomfortable and unnatural to a toddler. One day he finally refused to go onstage at all and she realized how unreasonable she was being when he did this in public. What was she going to do with all the other mothers and people starring at her?
It is okay if it is something the little girl enjoys, but not if she is pushed into it by her parents.
Also, if it is all the parents do... pageant after pageant, then that is counterproductive to the child because then they don't have a real childhood. Once or twice is great if the child enjoys it, but to make a career out of it is not really the child's choice. That's the parents doing and a seemingly a form of child abuse. |
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Eddie F
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Not really a question for this site is it?? |
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Chris Brown is the man!
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