Honey Bo Bo

morrismm
Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:20:05 +0000

From what I understand, Honey was in pagents before the first show “Toddlers and Tiaras.”. T & T showed a lot of young girls in pagents. Pagents are very big in the south. But I’ve known people who have entered their D’s in pagents here in NY. The audience “took” to Honey and she got her own show. Just like any spinoff.

So this family started out doing what thousands of families do–pagents. A tv show asked to film the pagent and the rest is history.

I don’t get the impression this family started out to “exploit” their kid. It fell in their lap. So they took it. Are you 100% sure you would not do the same, for whatever your kid does, if offered to you?

And yes, many parents unbelievably push (exploit?) their kids in sports hoping they will get scholarships and become pros. I live near Cooperstown. There are several expensive summer baseball camps near here that attract people from all over the US. Why come across country from Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii to NY to send S to an expensive baseball camp? Because it is Cooperstown.

And yes, Honey BB’ s mom is obese and appears to have limited education. I find the judgement by educated and what usually comes across as liberal CCer’ s very amusing. “We’ll give them food stamps, but judge what they eat.”. Haha.

They are not a perfect family. Nor is mine. They are overweight. So is mine. Apparently so are many of you. One of the most popular parent threads is about weight. Maybe the money they make from the show will help them. Maybe they will overspend like the majority of Americans who live beyond their means. I, for one, am rooting for them!