TLC - Toddlers and Tiaras - group trying to cancel show

[moosmom]

Out of curiosity, I watched one episode. The youngest was carried onto the stage (she was only 5 months old). The gyrating and sexual implications really made me uncomfortable. It was quite obvious that it's the parents who get more out of beauty pageants than the kids do. It's child exploitation, plain and simple.

[Sirrahsim]

I tuned in for all of about 2 minutes simply because I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Disgusting.

[pomtzu]

Maybe I'm super, overly cautious, but I would never post any pictures of my grandchildren on any public website for people to see - even on PT. I have a very beautiful 16 yr old granddaughter, and a very handsome 12 yr old grandson, and I don't feel at all comfortable having their pictures for all to see. There's just too many sickos out there that are able to track people anywhere. I don't know how they do it, but it's done all the time.
That's why I can't understand these mothers parading their children on t.v. - dressed and made up to be provocative and sexy way beyond their years. Don't these mothers know that they're just inviting trouble - or is it that they just don't care??? Is that trophy and prize money worth the chance they take???

[Catty1]

Link to the Facebook site:


http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=todd...id=48970115964

[blue]

That's a series called "Big Love". TLC did a show where a journalist interviewed polygamist family.

I didnt know that, I havent had cable for 6 years.

[Karen]

I didnt know that, I havent had cable for 6 years.

Oh, and the series "Big Love" is fiction, as well. The main character is played by Bill Paxton.

[Daisy and Delilah]

The show that I was talking about is:

Forbidden Love: Polygamy

It's a true story. TLC ran it on 2/04 and they're running it again on 2/19.

[Twisterdog]

People should wait until the kids are at least in Jr. High school to let them wear a shirt like this one I saw-

I am home,
Take me drunk.

What? Junior High? A twelve or thirteen year old wearing a shirt proclaiming that they are drunk?! I am going to assume you are joking.

No child of mine would wear that shirt in my presence until he or she was twenty-one years old, and even then I would comment negatively on it.

[moosmom]

Amen Twisterdog!!

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I have never heard of this show, but I find the idea of child beauty pageants bizarre and repulsing to say the least. Heck, I really find any beauty pageant weird and kind of sick, but if the contestants are adults at least they have a choice. I wonder who would actually want their child to compete in something like this? It sounds disgusting.

I find it really sad that we live in the 21st century and woman are trained by the media from a young age to believe that what is really important is their sexual appeal.

[Karen]

I find it really sad that we live in the 21st century and woman are trained by the media from a young age to believe that what is really important is their sexual appeal.

Oh, gosh please amend that to say "SOME women"! I certainly had drummed into my head "pretty is as pretty does" from earliest childhood! As were, I bet, lots of people here!

[K9soul]

I think Pembroke meant not so much parents are bringing up their girls in such a way, but more that media, movies, games, music, advertising, and even some parts of society in general perpetuate these ideas and ways of thinking.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Oh, gosh please amend that to say "SOME women"! I certainly had drummed into my head "pretty is as pretty does" from earliest childhood! As were, I bet, lots of people here!

I think Pembroke meant not so much parents are bringing up their girls in such a way, but more that media, movies, games, music, advertising, and even some parts of society in general perpetuate these ideas and ways of thinking.

Yes this is exactly what I meant, thanks. I think most parents probably teach their kids similar things to Karen's parents, which is good. But, I think that society sends a different message in many ways. Women on tv, in ads, movies, etc., are almost always young, thin, and beautiful (though this is not true of men). It's like women who are not these things are not valuable.

[pomtzu]

I was watching Entertainment Tonight and The Insider last night before the dog show, and they did a short feature on this t.v. show, and other shows like it. Not only are these girls being made up to try to look like Miss America (and that's being complimentary on my part), but those fancy hair styles aren't necessarily their own hair. These little ones are wearing wigs and hair pieces. Come on - how stupid!!!! And one little girl had lost one of her front baby teeth, and the mother had a retainer made with a tooth to fill in where the missing one had been. These mothers need to prioritize - I'm sure these shows need to be at the bottom of the list. I wonder how much the rest of the family is neglected so the beauty queens can be pampered beyond anything reasonable.
These kids sure are being taught a very wrong set of values.

[cubananglgurl]

How can any decent mother put her children through that?! Don’t the know the damaging phsycological and emiotional effects it has on childeren as they grow and develop??? Every ounce of those childrens self esteem is measured but how many crowns and titles they win. These mom’s are trying to live through their children and using them as cash cows. It sickens me to no end. most of those little girls you see right now are going to be battling anorexia within the next few years over their selfish parents. The children no nothing about manners and to be polite, what they need is a good spanking. These parents should be ashamed of what they’re doing just for some shiny baubles. I refuse to watch HOw can a mother say that one daughter is prettier than the other just by her nose?! that little girl is going to grow up and hate her mother. I truly believe that this should be considered as exploiting children. my heart goes out to all of those girls who’s mothers feel that they need to bathe their little girls in make up and wigs and parade them like little stippers. I’m only 17 years old and I WILL NEVER do that to any child that I will have. I am truly angry at TLC.