Excuse me ma'am your child is a robot.

This weekend when I was supposed to be writing this blog and typing my paper I was wasting away watching television. The show I happened to be watching was called "Toddlers in Tiaras" which for those of you that don't know is a show about beauty pageants for children ages zero to about eight. Anyway, they dress these little girls up like hookers and teach them to flounce around shaking their hips and flipping their hair. These mothers train their little girls these behaviors starting at age two and claim that it's "making their children better people" and "teaching them values". Sure they are learning "values", if you consider teaching them that it's all about looks and that they aren't good enough being themselves something positive. So basically from age two or three they are thinking that they need these "enhancements" like fake hair, fake teeth, make-up and fancy clothes to be beautiful. This my friend is insecurity in the making. These mothers and coaches are "training" the personality right out of the girls turning them into robots. If you are told what to do, how to act, when to smile, you lose your sense of self and with that personality and individuality. Some of the mothers on the show made their five year old practice at lease twice a day for one or two hours. This is just ridiculous. Sure dressing up and putting on make-up may seem fun for little girls, but the competitiveness the moms are programming into them is going to effect them negatively in the long run. They are going to think they are better than every one else because their mothers are feeding them false confidence. Another thing I don't think is right is the fact that the mothers say that as soon as her daughter says she doesn't want to do this anymore they will stop.

For one: how is a two year old suppose to express that clearly?

Two: I don't know what planet these moms grew up on but to me usually crying is a form of discomfort and they should be able to read that sign that the child isn't happy. 

Three: Some of the older kids feel like the have to do this for their mothers approval and maybe they are scared to say they don't want to.

Children are adorable without fake plastic smiles, false eyelashes and polished appearances. And telling them they need more than to just be themselves develops self esteem issues.  Causing these children to grow up thinking that the only way to earn money is through their bodies, which is not true.
Child Pageant Queen = Future Prostitute
 They develop eating disorders to stay "perfect" for the approval of their parents which is just wrong.

Case clear. I win.