Children Beauty Pageants
74Children Beauty Pageants
When most people think of children's beauty pageants, they think of little girls in poofy dresses with makeup on or they think of JonBenét Ramsey. It is easy to assume that the parents are doing it because they wish they could win, among other reasons. Certain current TV shows allow the public to make these assumptions since it portrays mothers that are like that. However, what really goes on behind the scenes? How do these types of pageants really work? Is there a benefit to putting your child in one?
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Let's start with this...
How do these pageant work?
There are different types of these pageants. The main are Natural, Glitz, and Pro Am. Natural is where a child cannot wear makeup. Their dress is normally a Sunday school style outfit and they walk on stage and smile pretty. Glitz pageants are normally known for having the children wear makeup. It is similar to a natural pageant but with more relaxed rules on dress and appearance. They tend to pay the most to their winners as it tends to attract more seasoned pageant competitors. Pro Am is a style of pageants that the pageant is more of a show where the children go on stage and in a sense, dance to impress the judges. Any of the pageants may include an interview depending on a child's age but the Glitz and Pro Am are more likely to be an On-stage competition (meaning no interview). Most pageants also have a baby and boys division.
What I disagree with in some children's pageants
Children should NEVER wear makeup. There should be an age limit. I do not believe that children should 'dance' around on stage but rather should show off their unique personality instead of giving some rehearsed show. There is a problem with children growing up too fast in this day and age. However, this is a decision that is left to the parent of the child that is competing.
What I like about some children's pageants
I like pageants that do enforce a no makeup rule. This normally means children 12-14 and under cannot wear makeup, and other age divisions must wear appropriate makeup for their age division. This can be a fun experience for children and could teach them interaction with competitors which will make it better for them to not become a sore loser. It will also give them confidence to be able to go on stage.
How do I get my child started?
You may be asking this question right now. If you are, here are the step I believe you should take.
1. Fully research the pageant. Look on the Internet and various website to make sure that it is really a pageant. Although I have never come across a fake pageant, I am sure that there are some out there.
2. Decide what type of pageant you want to put your child in. Look at the age divisions, awards, schedule and costs. Also look at where you would have to go for the National pageant. If your child wins a local pageant, they will either go to the state pageant or strait to the National pageant.
3. Study the winners picture. DO NOT copy how that winner looks. As they say, with a different panel of judges, there could of been a different Queen. However, you do want to study the pictures of your child's age division to determine what type of outfit to wear or how they would like the queens to look.
4. Watch the video's if they have some on the website. This can give you a great way to provide training to your child.
5. Prepare your child. Practice, Practice, Practice. The more you practice, the more comfortable they will be when they get on stage.
6. Ask questions. There are many ways to get into contact with other parents or competitors in order to know what to do when pageant day comes. Check out the forums at the pageant website that most websites have.
7. DO NOT spend hundreds of dollars on a pageant coach. We all want to win. That's a given in any competition. However, it is unlikely that your child will win the first pageant. It took me 3 years of competing before I won a title (other than a lack of contestants title). Make sure that your child likes to compete and try a few more. If at that point you want to hire a coach, then go for it. Just be careful who you choose and how much they cost. There are some that will charge way too much. Save that for the big competitions such as Miss America or Miss USA.
8. Have fun! That's the point of pageants. It will get stressful as pageants are normally very fast paced. However, if your not having fun, there is no point to competing or putting your children in a pageant. Don't be pushy but rather teach your child to enjoy a competition such as this.
Example of Awards
Banner, trophy and crown are a given. Sometimes there are cash prizes. There can be flowers or balloons. They could give toys, gift baskets, or stuffed animals. Each pageant varies on the type of awards and awards could change due to the number of contestants that have entered the pageant.
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Yeah, I can understand where you come from. Before I started pageants myself, I thought it was horrible for children to compete in. However, I've come to realize that it is just like other sports. I thought it was even harder to compete than to be a cheerleader or play softball. There are many life lessons that you can learn from just one weekend of competing. For younger children, the experience can be very fun. Most girls love to dress up and this is their chance to dress up and show it off. I have never seen a child cry but rather I've seen some of the biggest smiles. It's also like a play date for them as well since there are other girls there that will play with them while they wait for their turn on stage. Overall, if it's in the right pageant, I think it's ok for them to compete.
Bravo! I never did a pageant a day in my life but my girls do the local festival pageant each year. It is themed, and all part of a week long festival. There are mom's there that break the rules to help their child win and have not been reprimanded for it but I have explained to my girls that it is better to ignore it and have fun than to get upset. Every year, I ask them if they want to do it. One year my oldest said no after a classmate cheated and was nasty but changed her mind when it came closer to time. I am so proud of how well my girls handle it all and you are absolutely correct~they love the dressing up part!!! My in-laws have fretted over my not entering them in more but I would rather avoid 'those' moms and spare my girls the pettiness that can, unfortunately, occur.
I think its fun for them to dress up but as for these " mothers" who plaster their children in fake tan and make up need a slap. sorry to say it and i don't mean to cause offence but why cover up a child's natural beauty with make up. the children grow up too quickly!! the natural pageants aren't too bad but even then i think there should be a limitation as some children take it to heart thinking that they aren't beautiful and that they need to "improve" themselves. I just think that some of the extents that parents go to are nothing but cruel. im not saying all pageants are the same but I think there should be a limitation to what they wear i,e make up and bikinis and their age also. Telling a 4year old child to shake their butt in a bikini is disgusting
Well I'm sorry to not agree with Alot of this and i feel like you can't bash it till u try it! I have been in glits pageant systems for years!!! Inam a proud holder of at least many titles and proud of it, i love the hair, spray tans, and make up of glits that's the fun in it! The shaking and pro am is part of it. This is an exciting fun thing to do an every child I know who does it love it, they are not forced in doing it. Having a coach is the best thing that has ever happened to me, my mother is less stresses out, i dont look like a fool not knowing what to do, and you are expected to learn gymnastics obtain good grades obedience poise and what most kids nerd social skills. There are so many life lessions with doing this. And if you gave it a chance you too would see why we love them. And glits is nit all about the beauty yes I feel I'm prity but no girl I have ever met takes the loss as a you are ugly it's a maybe you should not wear that shade of color it is not the best or my modeling was off or simply that was thoes three (sometimes more or less) judges thoughts. We get judged every day if it's at school, work, shopping, or just out side checking your mail; why not McKenna it fun and play dress up like when u were a little girl??! And in that matter swimwear is a option if you ding like it dint dont do it you can sub it for a ooc( outfit of choice) but most kids and teens love it, it's not the point if the swimsuit it's the personality that's in it you can have fun in it but like I said it's optional. And as of mothers need to be slapped fir make up and spray tans, is absurd! Do u know what's in most tans formula? It's coco beans an natural materials and they use a little airbrush gun it's simple and harmless, it's better than the tanning beds or the rays if the sun witch cause sun cancer...... Next on the list of your slapping was hair, most people use falls nag wiglets aka fake hair to save our hair.... Enough said, and make up it may make them look older but it's as simple to change as a wipe of a wash rag. It's 90 seconds of them doing, wow! But advice for anyone doing a local fair pageant or something good luck! There is cheating and it is not fun to loose because of politics!!! It happens I know nut u need to try a mire trustworthy system there are plenty. And there are some girls who are absolutely beautiful who get beat in glits systems because they are not prepared my advice to anyone wanting to get into pageants from 0 to 8ish 9 SHORT dresses only!!!! And and 10 to 13ish big poofy dress any older u need a sleek dress with a train. And if you plan to do any big ones get a coach and someone to do the hair it's not worth the fight with u and your kid. If you don't like the facts I have stated natural is best for u, I do both and glits are mote fun to me. And befor you start comparing Floyd to that trashy toddlers in tiara or little miss perfict relize all of that is put on and it's a tv show! Google some more and go see a pageant that matters rather than a show that giver a hotel a IOU and runs.... I just hope this helps some people that this us like a sport if cheering is then this is ours !! If anyone has any questions leave them and I'll happily inform you from a person who lives in them rather than a person who has never put a heal on. Consider that it's not the mothers it's the children that love to preform and thai are NOT forced!!!!! :))))
I have done both myself. Glitz were fun but to ME PERSONALLY, I could not do the excess makeup and fake items. That's why I did them (not extreme glitz) when I was a teenager where it didn't matter if you did or didn't have a tan and so forth. Although most have great parents that are supportive, you know just as well as I do that some parents push this on their children. Honestly, the glitz pageants DO give pageants a bad name. If someone wants to compete in those, by all means, please do. There are benefits to all types of pageants. This was written to show that there are other types of pageants, not just what you see on tv.
My granddaughter is 3.5 and just started doing some natural pageants. My daughter and I decided four per year is plenty. We put no pressure on her to rehearse. Once ina while we play pageant, which she loves, and we all have to take turns. She hands out trophies (her toys) to us.
We tried her in one, just to see if she liked it, as she is extremely outgoing but needs to learn to focus a bit. This seems to be helping, along with her taking one dance class and one gymnastics class, which are fun and designed for her age.
I watch these nut job parents on Toddler's and Tiara's with these spoiled kids and think to myself that it is crazy!! If my granddaughter acted out like those kids, she would not be doing a pageant and would be punished, even if it meant walking out of a pageant (which would upset her) to teach her a lesson.
We could care less if she wins. She has won something each time, not the highest, but usually up there, but even if not, she loves the fun, she likes being up there and smiling for the judges. She has made friends, as have we and just enjoys it all.
I think that it has to be done right. I teach dance and we have kids who perform and even compete at young ages, but the focus is not so much about winning, but the experience and lessons learned, one being knowing how to lose and still be happy about it.
I think that while its pretty much a fun thing for little kids like that omg its so expensive most people spend 50 times more money than they win in a lifetime! And also the thing about makeup and everything, not cool. At all. And not fair either. Each kid should be themeselves and not a fragile china doll waltzing across the stage. Totally fake.
i do not believe in beauty pageants at all i thin they are stuipid
nope! i totally DISAGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe that this is one way of training our kids to become witty and confident.
A good idea is to put all mums old dresses hats shoes and makeup in a box and let the kids dress up in all the gear and then have a parade. It would be hilarious and fun and nothing sexual about it at all.
Entertaining hub1 I really enjoyed reading this.Thank you. Rated way up!
In a society where self-image is one of the leading issues for young women, beauty pageants that start at such a young age can lead to a variety of damaging psychological issues and eating disorders among participants in the future.
In a media dominated world with photo-shopped models and less than realistic beauty expectations, it is easy for young girls to get swallowed up into the unrealistic and unhealthy ideals that media is projecting. However, it is in a beauty pageant where girls and women are being judged on the very same ideals that media is frowned upon for promoting. No woman should be scrutinized and judged by her outward appearance, especially at such a young age.
This is not like "other sports". It is archaic and wrong. Children should be celebrated as individuals, not pitted against each other in a way that makes one any "less" of a person than the next.
I don't agree with beauty pageants PERIOD, but if people insist, at least put an age limitation. Eighteen years old or something! It's one thing if you "lose at sports". Losing because you're yourself is a WHOLE other dreadfully disturbing story.
I think pageants make a child feel good in there self
Pageants are not good because parents spoil the kids and the kids act like brats. Also some kids don't get an education. And, the pageants cost so much money, there is no money left for their collage funds! It is terrible and wrong! Wow! You others may disagree and that's ok.
I watch Toddlers and Tiaras and I think they are wayyy to young to wear makeup!!
My daughter is doing her first pageant (natural) and she is very excited. I dont see the problem. I think it will be just like any of her other activities. She is very girly and im not really into all that but i figure this might be a nice way to support what she enjoys.
I think its completely fine for girls to wear age appropriate makeup like in semi glitz pageants. Pageants are a great way to boost confidence and show off your skills.Bt personally I'm more to glitz pageants
I disagree with lots of what your saying. Glitz pageants are great.! The make up, spray tans, flippers and fake eyelashes are just what you have to do. It's only enhancing the beauty. In pageants the girls BOTH model and add cute dance moves to their routine. Pageants do not make girls grow up too fast, after pageants the girls are free to play and still act like little girls should.
girls in glitz pageants aren't forced to be in the competitions, most are happy and excited the only time they look upset are when they're cranky and parents don't force them
Ms Chievous Level 1 Commenter 2 years ago
I agree that the little one should not wear makeup. But i also think the little ones should not go through any pageaentry of any kind. I just can't see them being a kid through it all.. just my opion. I have never been through a pagaent eitehr so i really don't know. Thanks for insight into pagaent life.