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We want to encourage children and promote self esteem through a fun and supportive experience.” Pageants are based on children flaunting themselves for judges to get points that are based on their looks, this is not supporting self-esteem. No one feels better about themselves for losing, especially when you are a child and you lost because of your looks, it could be heart breaking for this child. Parents enter their child in beauty pageants because these competitions teach their children valuable life lessons and skills. Pageants can appear to be teaching children to be confident, how to handle themselves and dress appropriately, and can help them make friends as well. But in pageants, confidence is not boosted, self-esteem suffers and the way children act, showing themselves off and valuing their appearance, is not the person they should learn to be. When constantly being compared to others, being judged on how pretty they are, their self-esteem negatively is affected when losing in a
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Beauty contests are based on looks, and with her mother’s expectations, it is no wonder why McClung feels sad and disappointed in herself. “I should’ve done better, I should have done better. I should have nailed it.” Children are made to feel they need expensive dresses, make-up, fake tans, to be acceptable. “I like make-up, and I like the hair spray, she said (4-year old Eden Wood). Make-up makes me feel happy. I like being pretty on stage with my make-up on”. This four-year-old girl has been doing pageants for her whole short life. “Wood said she can afford the $70,000 she spent on these pageants, what’s the benefit? You can only regain the money by winning. Eden’s mother claims she affords pageants, some families are going in debt because of the expenses. “Pageants officials admit some families have gone into debt, even paying entry fees before paying rent.” Parents are consumed in these pageants and are forgetting they have a family that needs a place to live and dedication from their moms. Should a child really be learning the desire to win a contest with minimal benefits are more important than having a place to live?
Beauty contests are based on looks, and with her mother’s expectations, it is no wonder why McClung feels sad and disappointed in herself. “I should’ve done better, I should have done better. I should have nailed it.” Children are made to feel they need expensive dresses, make-up, fake tans, to be acceptable. “I like make-up, and I like the hair spray, she said (4-year old Eden Wood). Make-up makes me feel happy. I like being pretty on stage with my make-up on”. This four-year-old girl has been doing pageants for her whole short life. “Wood said she can afford the $70,000 she spent on these pageants, what’s the benefit? You can only regain the money by winning. Eden’s mother claims she affords pageants, some families are going in debt because of the expenses. “Pageants officials admit some families have gone into debt, even paying entry fees before paying rent.” Parents are consumed in these pageants and are forgetting they have a family that needs a place to live and dedication from their moms. Should a child really be learning the desire to win a contest with minimal benefits are more important than having a place to live?