I was stuck at home during the strike and discovered channel 186 on DSTv, I love cake boss and Rich bride poor bride but the show Toddlers and tiaras got me sick to my stomach. How do you justify applying so much make up to a child, showing them half naked and d fake eye lashes, nails etc. I saw a 2 week old baby in one of the episodes.
Sad part is that most of the moms are overweight and unkempt. Am I on my own because i dont have a daughter or is it just plain sick to do that to a child?
One of the episodes the child was screaming not wanting to get her eyelashes waxed and the mom held her down, Blood of Christ, As an adult i dont even have my lashes touched, I dont fix fake lids, I keep my make up simple. My neighbor told me its because I dont have a girl and dat if i have a girl I would love to dress her up. Please I have been thinking deeply about this show is it normal? Is it ok to do all that to a 2 year old?
I really wonder how most of those kids would turn out in 10 years, Dont even get me started on how spoilt and rude a lot of the kids are.

It is not normal. I don't even watch it, watched it once and stopped. I think some of the mothers are using their daughters to live their lives.

Say whaaaat? Waxing a 2 year old's lashes? Is that not child abuse? Thanks for the head's up, won't watch that show.

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I watched it for the first time 3 weeks ago and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I had to chase my daughter out of the room so that she won’t start getting ideas.

All I can see is a heap of sad & unfulfilled pushy mothers who want to live their lives though their kids. How can you even attempt to put false eyelashes on a screaming 18 month old baby? . . . .And 2 year olds wriggling their hips on stage in a bikini & blowing kisses at the judges is just sickening.

I definitely won’t be watching it again. Those poor kids have lost their innocence, thanks to their mentally unbalanced mothers.

I agree, I was sick to my stomach watching it but my neighbor loves it hence my concern. Very very sick to see young children being flaunted half naked to the glare of peodopiles. If a Young girl or woman chooses to dress scantily dats her choice but to put a child who has no say in such clothes is horrible.

This generation is too vain. I have watched the show too and its sad.

I watched it too and was sick, those kids are just too young for all the nonsense their mothers are putting them through, They do not portray that innocence kids are supposed to have. I have a friend who dresses her daughter in such manner, the girl is 4 and she dresses her with wigs, make-up, blushes and so on, the pathetic part, is her 1 year old son, she wears earrings for him and braids his hair !! tell me what you picture in those kids future?

I will NOT watch any of those shows. This is why I say my children will not do any sleep overs or crap like that. Some of these parents are delusional. When you paint the face of a 3 year old like a cheap sidewalk prostitute and convince her that she is cute and the world revolves around her then don't be suprised when she is 7 years old and has outgrown childhood pageants and no one is around to kiss her ass and she turns her viciousness unto you - the mother who created that monster in the first place. Those children are just simply being damaged by these clueless parents who never achieved anything in their lives but now want to live it through their children.

They're prepping the kids for the entertainment business.

A lot of these beauty pagaent contestants you see on tv, actually started quite young at child pagaents like the one being discussed. It takes a lot to get the necessary exposure and connections and thats why the kids sometimes start out as toddlers.
I prefer watching showbiz to participating in it, thus you'd never find me at such places, but i believe the women who groom their kids for things like that, want what's best for them but sometimes the cost is rather high. How do they cope with the toddlers' temperaments and all that.

Dem try. Cant do it.