Blinging up Baby

I saw the trailer and that was enough! Deedaa your post up there makes the point extremely well, esp, re being allowed/not allowed to take photos and the poses etc. Bloody well done!

www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/woody-woodpeckers-nursery-children-work-7475179
On an earlier thread we were discussing nursery 'graduations'. This article is about nursery proms!! With limo of course at a mere £30 a head. Why won't these people let children be children?

I remember the child JON BENNET,[USA] so very sad what happened to her !

I saw an excerpt, it's hard to get into the mindset, particularly subjecting a small child to a spray tan, possibly a few chemicals contained therein which can't be doing the little girl a lot of good.

It's so contrary to what childhood should be about. "Dressing up dolly" with a real child and fostering the notion from such an early age, that what really matters is going to extraordinary lengths to look good. Children don't need enhancing with all that horrible rubbish.

When you think of what women had to do in the past to be treated as rational beings as well at what many women in other cultures have to cope with, one is made speechless by these stupid stupid women.

I do agree with that HildaW. Whilst watching the film 'Becket', as much as it is a very good film, there was a teeth-gritting moment when Peter O'Toole rants to his men 'I am as useless as a woman'! So many women and girls today don't realise just how women were treated by the majority of men until very recently. To put their little girls into the bracket of parading around, made up and dressed up like that is such a massive step backwards.

Ana - yes, it was a documentary, of sorts, but IMO an irresponsible one.

deedaa - Totally agree. Not a hint of enriching their children's world with education, reading, singing, creativity or age-appropriate activities; nothing about encouraging and nurturing their own interests or any wider interest in the world. What is going to happen when these children discover that they aren't going to win 'Miss World' or live the dream, and that looks aren't everything (or, in fact, anything), or that buying endless stuff, especially when you can't afford it, isn't going to make you happy or fulfilled?

Another one who knew watching it would not be a good idea and so didn't - but seriously, it does make me sad for the little girls.

If ever there was a programme to make you eat your own head !!! Those hideous dresses! And the spray tan !!! Why couldn't the poor child run around in the garden and get a natural one? As for that pageant! The way the children were performing was down right creepy. You aren't allowed to take photo's of your grandchildrens' school play because of the paranoia about paedophiles and yet mothers have got their little girls prancing round in hairpieces and thick make up getting into provocative poses !!!

"She's so beautiful - she looks just like a celebrity" Not a word about education or career prospects. As all the mothers seemed to be passing round the same brain cell perhaps none of them have any career prospects?

The presenters weren't there to make judgements - it was a documentary.

That's what I thought. I didn't think such people existed outside the USA, but how naive was that? It's sad for the children. I agree with Hilda that it amounts to abuse. Yet no comment was made by the presenters. Just imagine if physical or sexual abuse was filmed to make an entertaining programme....what kind of outcry would there have been? It's not harmless IMO - it's going to damage those children.

Not a great deal Mishap ?

I find it offensive. It is hard to imagine what is going on in the parents' minds.

I too wish this had been a late April Fool....but no....all too true. No I did not watch it as would have thrown something at the telly.

When you think of what women had to do in the past to be treated as rational beings as well at what many women in other cultures have to cope with, one is made speechless by these stupid stupid women.

To be quite honest I'd almost put it on a par with neglect and expect social services to step in.

I wouldn't watch it either as I knew I'd end up fuming. I've crossed swords with so many parents who think beauty pageants for little girls are a good idea - I just don't think little girls should be made up to look like women or be sexualised in any way, shape or form let alone be judged on which one looks the best in all that garb and makeup. Why can't they just be left to be children - not as though childhood lasts forever is it.

I didn't watch it as I knew my BP would shoot sky-high and I'd be shouting at the tv...