Beauty Pageant For Toddlers

If your child loves to wear makeup, pose for pictures and dance in front of a crowd, a beauty pageant may be just the thing for her. These events can also be a great bonding experience for you and your toddler, and they can be very fun. However, it is important to remember that these pageants are competitions and your child will likely feel disappointed if she doesn’t win.

After the JonBenet Ramsey murder scandal, child beauty pageants have received much more public scrutiny. Reality shows such as “Toddlers and Tiaras,” in which parents transform their children into glitzy princesses, have drawn attention to the pageant subculture that treats young girls as objects for consumption and exploitation.

Mental health experts have emphasized that these pageants have the effect of sexualizing girls. The heavy makeup, spray tans and false eyelashes that are used on the girls, and the type of clothes that they wear, all send the message that femininity is something that is to be displayed rather than celebrated.

The right age for your child to enter her first beauty pageant is a personal decision that is best decided by you and your child. Some kids are very tolerant of the dress, schedule and waiting backstage, while others are not. It is a good idea to test the waters by entering your child in a local pageant that doesn’t require any entry fees and see how she behaves before committing to a national contest.

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