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10-04-2011, 01:21 PM
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^^I see what you mean now about my wording, but I wouldn't ever take anything like that for my kids beyond hobby level unless they initiated it. Even the modeling/acting between all of our jobs and my scholarship, we've probably broken even after investments in photoshoots, comp cards, showcase, etc.
Hilariously enough, I literally JUST NOW got a casting notice for the new season of Dance Moms from my agent. LOL
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12-06-2011, 05:07 PM
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New episodes of Toddlers & Tiaras start tomorrow! Woohoo!
I was missing seeing these insane moms & dads and bratty children. LOL!
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12-13-2011, 03:23 PM
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http://www.babble.com/interview/davi...d-development/
Read this today and thought of the issues I brought up in this thread. Great article for people struggling with what the heck to do with your kids. I may end up getting the book the article mentions.
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12-15-2011, 12:02 AM
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*That backdrop of this pageant is pretty janky.
*I like how grandma says "I know she hasn't been on stage in 8 months, but I still expect her to bring home the highest title." Of course you can expect that when YOU aren't the one doing it.
*If your child can't function on stage without you miming the routine from the audience, she's too young for a pageant. That bugs me. I can see if your kid is like 10, and can do it all herself, cool let her do it. But what's the point of having a 2 year old on stage who is lost? lol.
*I think it's funny that with the under 2 year olds, it seems that the winner is most likely to be the kid who doesn't cry/try to run away/etc. I've heard that it's the same way with babies and modeling, a lot of times it's not the cutest baby at the casting call, but the one who can sit there long enough without crying.
*I get that the pageant requires you to make a costume or something. Cool. But why can't it be age appropriate? Like, your kid can be (for example) a beach princess or something without her stomach being out like she's 16.
*This really goes for any activity a kid is in, but what exactly are you teaching your kid when you have OUTBURSTS and using the word loser over and over like a 5 year old? That's not losing gracefully (which was the #1 point of everything I participated in as a kid.)
*Also, it's my understanding that Ultimate Grand Supreme is the highest title of most of the pageants, right? Why do the parents FREAK OUT when their kids don't win it? That's like when you go to a gymnastics meet and you FREAK OUT when your kid isn't the gold medalist or high point. If you've been doing this for awhile, you should kind of know that you can't win 'em all.
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12-15-2011, 10:05 PM
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The mom who had the meltdown b/c her daughter won Princess & Novice Supreme was a royal biotch. She seriously disgusted me.
The pageant grandma was another in a long line of irritating pageant parents who demand their kids win the biggest titles & then express their anger b/c their snowflake didn't win.
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12-17-2011, 11:41 AM
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Natalie's mother was pyscho, for sure. Even after other people told her that kids can be a princess and still get Grand Nacho Supreme, she kept up her act.
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12-18-2011, 06:51 PM
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My 10 year old niece has been bugging my sister for months to be allowed to do pageants. My sister said she could if she brought her grades up.
She's now done 2.
My sister is too embarrassed to allow her crunchy granola friends know she is doing it. It's just . . . funny. My niece said she wanted to be featured on "T & T" and my sister had a cow. 
Although I still maintain you show horses and dogs, not children, I have to say that this was entirely my niece's idea, and she does seem to enjoy it.
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12-18-2011, 06:58 PM
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^^^^See I think it's fine if a child is like 9 or 10 and ASKS to be in one. Go for it.
I've seen a couple kids on Little Miss Perfect (the WE show) who were like 8 or 9 who seemed to actually like it.
But when your child is not old enough to articulate whether she wants to participate, no.
Ex: the mom of the 2 yr old in the last ep who says "Natalie just looooves pageants." She can't even speak.
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12-20-2011, 04:54 PM
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eden wood gets her own show......
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12-20-2011, 05:36 PM
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Maybe the world really is going to end in 2012. smh
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12-20-2011, 06:47 PM
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I hope that this poor little girl is NOT going to end up like the person she reminds me of: Anna Nicole Smith.
Her mother has said for a while that her kid is going to get her rich. I'm all for supporting your kids, but pimping them out like this is just disgusting. 
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12-20-2011, 10:50 PM
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Quote:
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I hope that this poor little girl is going to end up like the person she reminds me of: Anna Nicole Smith.
Her mother has said for a while that her kid is going to get her rich. I'm all for supporting your kids, but pimping them out like this is just disgusting. |
You hope she is going to end up like Anna Nicole Smith? It's not the child's fault...she's only six years old.
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12-20-2011, 10:52 PM
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(Knowing ree, I'm sure she inadvertently left out the word "not")
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12-20-2011, 11:00 PM
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(Knowing ree, I'm sure she inadvertently left out the word "not")
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Yes.
And DUH @ KD4Me.
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12-21-2011, 12:41 AM
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(Knowing ree, I'm sure she inadvertently left out the word "not")
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My bad. I read it just after I got home from rush-hour Christmas shopping with my three small children in-tow. I wasn't thinking clearly, let alone reading! It occurred to me afterwards that she must have left the "not" out.
I do feel sorry for Eden. She's being set up to have a difficult life.
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