Do you believe in beauty pageants, for kids?

If I ever get pregnant with a girl (have two boys and another boy on the way) then I would love to put her in a beauty pageant. It's not because of the competition, but because of the dresses and fixing the hair and the crowns. I just love it all.


Anyways, my husband is completely against them. He says women should not be judged, expecially kids. Where do you stand? Thanks!!!Do you believe in beauty pageants, for kids?
I think you have to ask yourself how it would affect your daughter. Some kids get very stressed by these things. Others love it. Whatever you do, you can't do it for you - it needs to be about your daughter and what she enjoys.Do you believe in beauty pageants, for kids?
Don't force your daughter if you have one. Take her to see one (either on TV or at a live one). Ask her if she thinks it looks like fun. If she says no don't force her to. If she says yes find a local pageant. Then ask her. Ask her if she really wants to be in it, because it is alot of money to enter and buy the dress. Tell her it does not matter if she wins or loses. I think as long as there havin fun it's fine. They should't have to miss school like some girls have to do. After every pageant ask her if she really wants to keep going and she is having fun. It if she says she doesn't want to do it, don't ask are you sure, because it's all her opinoin. I like pageant who girls aren't forced to do it, if they are it is just bad. It is not all about beauty some parts its about a well rounded person. People think pageants are bad even though the girls are having fun. And the talent parts (some have talent parts, some don't) if the girl who wants to be in it she should be in it then. What's so bad about doing something your good at. I don't mean this should be the only thing they are good at. But remembered to make sure she has fun.
Every girl wants to be recognized for being beautiful. In a kids beauty pageant the kids go through all the beautiful clothes, the make-up and all the trimmings. Then they realize that all the other kids are the same as them. Many think they are more beautiful than your girl. It becomes vicious.... high pressured... The little girl who always imagined that she was beautiful now finds that she's not as good as others.. It crushes most little girls. They feel as if they are being valued only for their appearance and their value is diminished.





We want our daughters to have a healthy self esteem and we want that esteem to be based upon more than their physical appearance. Children's beauty pageants are more for the parents than for the children. For most little girls it is harmful.





Rather, raise your little girl as the princess she is. Get her fancy princess dresses that she role play with her friends. She will develop a more positive self image, develop friends and use her imagination. Don't limit her costumes to Halloween, or pageant dresses, expand her play outfits to open possibilities that can stimulate her imagination.
There is an unfair of pageants in this society. People see the girls in too much makeup, swimsuits, fake tans, and high heels. There are pageants like these, but there are GREAT CONFIDENCE BUILDING ones too! I'm actually a kid myself. I don't know why I'm in this section - but let me tell you, I've done VERY GOOD pageants such as Miss Coed, and National American Miss. I did NAM this past summer, and am doing it AGAIN this summer because it was so great. NO MAKEUP on Girls under 13. NO SWIMSUITS. Everything needs to be age appropriate. No short dresses, or high heels on little girls. No adult jewelry, either. Girls sell ads, can make speeches, model, and interview. You gain LIFE SKILLS. My first pageant was the Coed when I was 7. IT lead me to do NAM which was awesome. I gained SO MUCH confidence. Before, I was shy, and couldn't speak in front of crowds. After the pageant, I could speak anywhere. I didn't place, but to this day I could say it was a great life experience. National American Miss is one that every girl should have a chance to go to (ages 4 and up.) It is not about artificial beauty. It is about inner beauty. Community service, interview, formal wear. Then there are many optional contests to choose from. IT helps build so many confidence, and I absolutley loved it. It was my first time in the competition, and I got 2nd runner up in the spokesmodel competition, which I still talk about to this day! If you have a girl, don't put her in the glitzy stereotypical pageant, put her in one of these!!!! They are life changing, and they help build great charachter. Your daughter would meet real, down to earth people, that don't care about how she looks. Every girl goes home feeling a winner. There is a difference, and people don't always see the plus side to pageants.
MY daughter is so beautiful that she doesn't need pagents to tell her that...I tell her how beautiful and smart she is all the time. There's alot of mom's out there who think that's enough for their daughters... Then we watch them kick their brother's butt... :)
NO. I don't want my daughters looking like sex objects.
As a new mother to baby boy and a former pageant kid, there is nothing wrong with putting your children in pageants. I was always knew whenever I wanted to stop I could stop when I wanted to get on stage I was allowed to be on stage. The most important thing to encourage young girls is that it is just for FUN! A different judge on a different day and will always have different outcome. My mother and I bonded during my pageant years, I competed from a baby to my early adult years. But pageants will teach you about carrying yourself with grace, class and what most young girls love, playing dress up! Not to mention my LIFE long girlfriends that I've made through pageants. This is not to say that some parents cant take it to the extreme, BUT that happens with any competition, youth football, baseball etc. I know of people who dedicated their life to a sport and I saw and knew of a lot more cut throat antics then I've ever seen backstage at a pageant!! If you are a crazy parent, you are a crazy parent. Pageants are wonderful for young girls as long as they are learning the right lesson, it's not about winning it's about doing what you love, and for myself as a child I loved the spotlight!! I've lost and I've won, but I always had a blast!!
if they want to do that , then that's fine. as long as they aren't pushed into it, i don't have all that much of a problem with it. its the same with dancing- its their choice. there are some ambitious mamas out there who push their girls into doing something to fulfill THEIR dream- which is awful.
i think it hurts the parents worse because sometimes the kids dont understand
NO. They just look like little mini hookers. Not trying to be mean, it's the truth. Let them grow up and decide what they want to be. When people put their children in that garbage, they are just doing it for their own benefit. It teaches the girls that they have to dress like sluts, drown their faces in makeup and prance around in front of men (other people) to be considered ';pretty'; and win a contest. It's ridiculous. I don't agree with it and I would never put my child in there. They will be taught that they don't have to look like cheap hookers to be liked.


And people wonder why there are so many kids and teenagers having sex and growing up too fast these days.








Kids are naturally beautiful. They don't need to wear revealing clothes and drown their faces in makeup to be ';pretty';.
AGAINST! ADULTS sexualize their children and then wonder why society is so screwed up!!
I tend to stand where your husband does and never plan on entering my daughter in one when she's born ever.





Beauty pageants tend to teach girls that their looks alone get them places in life and that looks are everything.





The inside is what counts and I want don't want my daughter (when she's born or ever in her life) to believe she has to be a cookie cutter perfect looking girl in order to be accepted and to be a ';winner';.





Exterior beauty fades; inner beauty grows stronger and more beautiful every day.
Thank goodness your husband has a sensible head on his shoulders. If that is how you feel, please don't have any more children. I think a poodle would suit your needs/interests more. Children are human beings, not little toys to prance around and do tricks. Furthermore, there is nothing beautiful about child beauty pageants. They're really just a loophole in the child porn laws.
Pageants are an invaluable way for children to lean self confidence and poise, so much that I don't believe any amount of praise from any parent can mean as much to a child as a tangible object. When your parents say that you are this or you are that, children DO need to hear that, but there is nothing like having that validated in public with a title, or at least recognition. I am a pageant director, and all these parents who say that you are screwed up in your head are 100% WRONG. I know SO many pageant girls, the overwhelming majority of whom are great, great girls, NOT whores and sluts with no moral compass. I would rather have a mother who thinks enough of me to believe that I am good enough to reign in a pageant world rather than one who sits behind a computer and bashes the beautiful children who do. There is something wrong in the heads of those who DO believe that this is so WRONG, your children, 9 times out of 10, are the ones who are out there roaming the streets because they don't have anything to be proud of, to hold in such a high reguard. Congrats to you for your stance, and also, there are PLENTY of AWESOME pageants out there for boys!
Your husband sounds like a great husband and father. Go with him on this one.
Sorry they look like real life barbie dolls i think it teaches girls that loks only matter -sorry*
Watch ';Little Miss Sunshine'; It is scary, but I have a feeling that this is much closer to the truth than the stuff that you read in the mail.