<p>Here’s the link to the Tom Hanks spoof…I was laughing out loud while watching this:</p>
<p>[Tom</a> Hanks: New Stage Dad on ‘Toddlers & Tiaras’? [Video] | PopEater.com](<a href=“http://www.popeater.com/2011/03/01/tom-hanks-toddlers-and-tiaras/?a_dgi=aolshare_facebook]Tom”>http://www.popeater.com/2011/03/01/tom-hanks-toddlers-and-tiaras/?a_dgi=aolshare_facebook)</p>
<p>“Make Daddy love you” and “You look just like a Bratz doll!” :)</p>
<p>OMG - so funny!</p>
<p>I know a number of families who had pageant moms and daughters. My son is dating a state teen finalist. Hate to tell you all this, but most of these girls and families are as normal as could be and the kids who are now grown, some of them pushing 30 years old are as well balanced, or more than the norm. </p>
<p>I don’t have girls and I know I would not have gotten into this sort activity even if I did, but I can tell you that the ones we know who have gone through this spiel have enjoyed it and the kids have done just fine. Don’t know an unbalanced one out of the bunch.</p>
<p>^^^^It seems to me that today’s pageants are much more extreme than the pageants of the past.</p>
<p>Some of these families are spending fortunes that they really cannot afford on 5 and 6 year old girls.</p>
<p>Your nice friends notwithstanding, having watched a few of these shows, there are more than a handful of people who are sexualizing very young children, grasping for outside validation of their children’s superficial attributes, and living vicariously through their children.</p>
<p>Are they the only parents exploiting their children? Of course not.</p>
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<p>My niece has been in a couple of local pageants and I’ve observed the same thing. My niece’s dance classes foster much more bad behavior than her pageants have, I think. You have to consider that they pick the worst pageants and families for this show or else it wouldn’t be good tv. I think it’s a mistake to characterize all of something based on the slice you saw on nighttime television.</p>
<p>As unbelievable as it can get, but this mom is apparently for real:</p>
<p>[Mom</a> who injects daughter with botox under investigation : The Mommy Files](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=88909]Mom”>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=88909)</p>
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<p>That’s nuts. If the GMA doc considers this maltreatment, perhaps someone will call Child Protective Services for this little girl. I hope so.</p>
<p>These pageants have become a lucrative business. They can also be a boon to society if they pick the winners as those who look the most like natural kids instead of the ones so clearly made up, hair colored, and looking like mini burlesque queens.</p>
<p>The have separate competitions for natural versus glammed up.</p>
<p>Where is the DCS when you need them?</p>
<p>[California</a> Daughter Injected With Botox No Longer in Custody of Mom - ABC News](<a href=“California Girl Injected With Botox Removed From Mom's Custody - ABC News”>California Girl Injected With Botox Removed From Mom's Custody - ABC News)</p>
<p>The botox shooting mother has lost custody of her daughter.</p>
<p>Thank God. What an incredibly selfish act… to project her own desires onto her child to the point that now the child is additionally traumatized by having been removed from her mother.</p>
<p>I know people who put their daughters in pageants, but nothing this horrible! Their children wear sundresses and bonnets, not string bikinis and halter tops. It’s horrendous.</p>
<p>Sometimes the bizarre parenting is close at hand and you aren’t even aware until suddenly the parent “shares.” This happened to me a few years ago when my daughter, her friend and her mom and I spent a day together traveling to an out-of-town museum, doing a nice lunch and having a lot of nice talk along the way. Toward the end of the day, we stopped for dinner and the girls were at a different booth and she “shared” with me that they had their daughter’s nose improved over spring break and that over the summer break they were having her jaw “improved” and upper lip also “improved.” </p>
<p>I was so flabbergasted. Honestly thought she was making a great joke at first. But no. Quite serious. Now she and her husband had graduated from top 20 schools. They had very high aspirations educationally for their daughter. But, my goodness, it was terribly twisted. The daughter was pretty, not at all disfigured. Still shaking my head. </p>
<p>So I guess my point is that the twisted parenting can be right smack in the middle of the academic powerhouse schools and families.</p>
<p>Wow, these parents have sunk to a new level. How is Child Protective services not jumping in on this? Just came across the opening of an episode called “Little Mr. and Miss Nevada”. One of the young girls, not babies or toddlers, just ripped off her shirt and posed topless as part of her routine. Not sure if she is actually shown on the show, or just in the opening, but somewhere on some stage the girl actually did that. What’s next stripper poles?</p>
<p>It embarrasses me no end to have this information at my fingertips…but the topless child was apparently actually a boy with long hair.</p>
<p>Not that that makes it any better.</p>
<p>Magic Mike?</p>
<p>Has anybody seen “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”? …so crazy that you can’t help but laugh.</p>
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That may be the worst show of them all! They have to have subtitles becuase you can’t understand them through their thick accents. Makes me embarrassed to live in the same state as them.</p>
<p>What is wrong with me that I always end up watching these shows? I get sucked in every time. </p>
<p>Not that I think this is in the same league as either T and T or Honey Boo Boo, but there is a show starting on TLC about the two girls who share one body. From the previews, they seem like smart, fun loving, well adjusted young women. Should be interesting.</p>