Toddlers & Tiaras – TLC

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Toddlers & Tiaras
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Every episode, this show follows three contestants in a beauty pageants.  Each episode follows three different contestants, and features a different pageant.  The three kids, usually between the ages of 2-9 (but sometimes younger) are shown from a couple weeks before the pageant to the last day of the pageant.  They are shown preparing to go, getting their ‘beauty’ all ready, and then performing.  The crowning is shown at the end, and then the reactions of the kids and their parents are recorded.

What We Think
Reviewed by Living Destiny
Number of Seasons: 3
This is the product of a television station with no good ideas and too much time on their hands.  I saw the ads and was shocked about the topic.  It’s like manipulating little girls (and sometimes little boys).  But one day there was nothing on tv and I was bored out of my mind.  So I checked it out.  I didn’t really know whether to laugh or cry.  It was pathetic and scary and somehow kept my attention for an entire hour.
Most of these girls have been brought up in the lap of pageants.  Quite a lot of them are spoiled rotten.  A lot of the parents are horrible parents who either spoil their kids or are super harsh and rude to their kids.  It’s really a sad thing when a little boy goes up on stage to have fun and his mother yells at him and drags him off because he ‘wasn’t doing it right’.  These kids get spray-tanned.  They get fake eyelashes.  They get fake teeth (called ‘flippers’).  They get these fancy dresses costing thousands of dollars.  Manicures, pedicures, hair pieces, lots of makeup.  It’s all fake.  It costs so much money.  It makes girls cry when they don’t win.  It creates a lot of stuck up brats.  I know I’m biased against pageants (I think they’re a waste of time and female intelligence), but pageants for young children?  Like under 10 years old?  That’s so beyond wrong.  Picture a third grader all dolled up with huge curly hair and poofy dresses parading around on stage.  Now picture this little kid dressed up in a short skirt and a belly-top shaking her hips on stage.  Sound like fun?  I don’t know what they’re paying these people to put their kids on tv as pageant girls.  Not enough, that’s for sure.  Some of them probably enjoy having their kids shown in ‘all their glory’, but I find it a little offensive.  And ridiculous and freaky.  I hate this show, but I watch it anyway because…I don’t even know why.  It’s addicting in a strange way.
Bottom line: this show is completely horrible.  I feel so bad for these children.
Real Teen Rating~ D: If there’s absolutely nothing else for you to do…then maybe…