Not Your Typical Pageant Girl

I like the point of view in this article, or how the Mom views pageants, if you will. When I first saw the show, I was appalled at all the make-up, the outfits and what these little girls were doing for the pageants. I understood that they wanted to win, but I did not like the Barbie Doll smiles and the screaming parents.
I like they way the Mother said that the child had a life outside the pageants and how the girl enjoyed things other that winning. I like the Mother's attitude and how she believed that these competitions would help improve her daughters speaking skills and poise.

-Anne S. Age 12

I think sabrina did great!!! I was very impressed with her mother's additude. She was so positive the whole time. And for Amber to write that comment just goes to show that no matter how pretty you are on the outside, its whats on the inside that makes you ugly! I dont blame Amber for that, i blame her mother because that's where she's learning it from! Shes teaching her daughter to be a SHALLOW PERSON!

It was so refreshing to see such a wellrounded child in tonights episode. Her mom gave the only reason I give any credibility to for going these things. She realized her daughter was a tom-boy and did this to show her the more girlie side of things.
Mom, keep up the good work. You were there for your daughter (and not yourself) and it showed. You seem to have such a wonderful relationship.

I have been watching this show for two weeks now. I found it on accident. So Far.......Sabrina and her mom are the best pair tied with the mother daughter theat was in the pagent together....the one that did the dance with the chairs i cant remeber there names. Good luck Sabrina in the next pagent.

I caught this show my accident last evening and found myself appalled that is it even aired on WE, what I assumed to be a network designed for women and the empowerment of women.
This is nothing more than society sanctioned pedofilia, abuse of young women for entertainment. Their mothers, the judges and all the attendees need to analyze their motivations.
To turn a 9 or 10 year old girl into a provocative sexual object, and then rationalize it under the guise of a contest, beauty or otherwise is psychologically warped.
Of the many things I think are misguided and wrong about our society, this has to be one of the worse, and the mothers who push their daughters in this direction, then abuse them with commentary on how they could have done better need to be investigated by child abuse authorities.
Rick

I am sorry, but I can't approve of you mothers and fathers allowing your little girls have hair, dress and sooooooooo much make up that they look like they are 25 years old just to win a Little Girl Beauty Padgent. The key words here are LITTLE GIRLS. And I really hate it when you moms and dads say on TV that you are doing this because your daughters really want it. I have seen the little girls crying, pitching fits not wanting to do this and I have seen one who didn't make it in the top 5 and she saw her mom run into a room crying because of it and this little girl told the camera she was alright with not winning, but her mom was not. Who is it here that wants to win? My main reason for being against these padgents and the moms and dads is: We have enough problems with sexual offenders in this world and you parents and padgent promotors are FEEDING these sexual offenders with these padgents. PLEASE STOP!!!! let these LITTLE GIRLS be LITTLE GIRLS. Stop trying to age them to the age of 25. And for the women who said these padgents are just like have your child in sports. Well, I will DISAGREE with that. I don't dress my kids up to act and look an age they are not. Playing football they wear pads and helmets to protect them. Make up, fake hair and revealing dress doesn't protect a child. My husband and I have 3 teenagers. 2 sons and a daughter. When my daughter was growing up we were asked 100's of time to put her in modeling or padgents. We would not allow it because of all the reasons I have pointed out. If you want your daughters to be confident and be great speakers, then put them in Speech and Debate Classes. Parents wake up and smell the roses before it is tooooooo late for your daughters.

Dear ophelia105b, It is obvious you don't have children or at least a daughter. If you did you may have a chance of understanding where I am coming from. We only put our daughter in something like singing, sports etc. that did not require her to change her appearance, etc. heavy make-up, fake hair, fake tan etc. If she has to change her outside appearance to win something or whatever she never did it and she is a perfectly bright and happy almost 16 year old and by the way she is a singer/songwriter. We will be going into the recording studio when she and her brother finish writing their 4th song. Believe it or not she- to this day doesn't wear ANY heavy make-up, fake hair, fake tan etc. She doesn't want to be someone she is not. I feel that the moms and dads putting their daughters in these BEAUTY PADGENTS are hurting them instead of trying to make them better kids. And whatever happens to the kids will be the parents fault. Do you remember what happened to Jon Benet Ramset? Her murderer has never been caught and that family never stoped blaming themselves for putting her in these padgents. This family and the cops think the killer could have been as a result of the padgents. The padgent moms and dads are taking the same risk of that happening to their child. Like I said before the sexual predators are out there and they won't stop till they get what they want. I don't want anything happening to these girls or any child, that is why I speak out. I don't watch Little Miss Perfect, I only watch it twice to see what happens. I hope you padgent moms and dads wake up and smell the roses before it is toooo late.

Dear ophelia105b, Jon Benet's death also has not been proven not to have anything to do with her pageants either, in fact the last info show, which was the 10th anniversary of her death said it very well could have been related to her pageant days. They have had 2 suspects who are known child predators. Nothing has panned out, but also Boulder Police let the case grow cold. I don’t think any of us will ever know what happened to Jon Benet, but deep down inside I will always believe it had something to do with her competing in the beauty pageants. Her mom was trying to make her something she wasn’t. When you take a 5 or 6 year old little girl and you glitz her up with caked on makeup, fake tans, hair, nails, eyelashes, teeth and her beauty dress what do you get? A 5 or 6 year old girl trapped in a 25 year s old woman’ body. Inner beauty is more important than outer beauty and if the moms, dads and pageant directors know this than we wouldn’t be having this conversation. I am obviously not going to convince you that this is VERY WRONG, but I hope I have convinced others and hopefully they will pull their daughters out. As for my daughter, when she becomes a Contemporary Christian Singer, she will be old enough and wise enough to choose her outside appearance carefully. She will not be 5 or 6 years old trying to look 25. I pray that we have taught her well and I know that we have made the right decisions regarding this very same thing. Good Luck!

GetOverit I would rather be known for caring tooooo much for children and fight for children than be like you and most of these "Pageant Moms" who don't care AT ALL. So I just want to say to you GETOVERIT. I love and care for children who are being taken advantage of and made to look 10 years older than they are. When you are placing your child in these so called pageants where they wear FAKE TANS, FAKE NAILS, FAKE TEETH, FAKE HAIR, SHORT SHORT REVEALING DRESSES, AND CAKED ON MAKE-UP it is VERY SAD. 9 times out 10 these children are being put into these pageants to full fill the moms dreams not the child.

BEEP you just lost your life-savings. Her influences were her grandma and daddy. But, there is a HUGE difference in my daughters singing and the pageant girls fake everything. My daughter is 15 and she wears NOTHING fake. She doesn't even wear much make-up. My daughter is not FAKE where as these pageant girls are FAKE. We don't make my daughter into something she is not. BIG DIFFERENCE!!!!!!!!! And yes I support my daughter FULLY to be herself and not someone she is not. Do you understand the difference? I feel sorry for the children not for the parents. I believe the parents should be held accountable for what they are doing to their children. You see, the parents are supposed to be the ones in charge of their children, these children in these pageants are placed there by their parents. The children don't just wake up one day and say "I want to be in pageants". The parents choose this for them. We did not choose singing for my daughter, she was a teen when she chose singing and there is NOTHING FAKE ABOUT HER AT ALL. Sorry about your life-savings.

I've never watched the show, but I'm sure it doesn't portray the whole pageant experience...I'm blogging because my daught is 4 and particiapting in her 1st pageant next month....I have never done anything like this so I need some advice on how to prepare her and me for it!