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Social Workers Should Stage an Intervention!

Reader Reviews: Toddlers and Tiaras on TLC

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From Sarah

Toddlers and Tiaras on TLC

Which episode did you last watch? 

I watched Mardi Gras Pageant.

How do you feel about toddlers competing in pageants? 

I'm against it

How do you feel about reality programs involving kids? 

I'm indifferent

My Review 

Pros of the show: I don't see many at all.

Cons: First of all, often there are mothers putting babies in pageants even though they cannot make that decision for themselves. Often the kids that are older are very bratty and rude, yet the mothers still allow these children to compete! It is disgusting how they expose little kids to hairspray fumes and wax kids' eyebrows even though they are being hurt. Social workers should stage an intervention.

Furthermore, whose idea was it to take little kids, slather on makeup, dress them up like sluts and make them compete against each other? It's ridiculous that these kids have grown up this way, never knowing anything but the sick message "The only way you'll be successful is by being anorexic and gorgeous" that the mothers have drilled into their heads.

Would you recommend this to a friend? 

No

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