The television show Toddlers and Tiaras is transforming the way our youth thinks, acts, and feels. The whole idea of competing in pageants gives these young girls and guys unsportsman like competitiveness because of pressure from parents, takes away from that toddlers character, and for some, makes the child unhappy.
After watching a few episodes, I began to notice that "childhood pageants" have been taken to a completely different level. Parents dress their toddlers in provocative clothing, coat their bodies in make up and artificial tans, fake eyelashes, fake nails, and even more so fake hair. They then are learning routines and performing them in front of a panel to be "judged".
Before their time on the stage, I noticed that "pageant kids" and the actual children themselves are usually pretty different. In the prefootage, there was a little girl by the name of Cambree that was very tomboyish, liked playing in dirt, and hated pageants. She didn't want to practice, she didn't even want to put on the dress. After her mom continuously bribed and yelled at her, Cambree finally got up to do her routine in hopes of receiving a new four wheeler if she was to be crowned. This displayed to me that the children never really get to display their true selves to these people who judge them all because of what their parents want.
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