Persuasive Essay On Toddlers And Tiaras

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Toddlers and Tiaras

While watching the short clip of Toddlers and Tiaras before being assigned this, it made me cringe just watching how a mother forced her daughter to have a cold, temporary spray tan for pre-pageant necessities. The controversy over beauty pageants for little girls and boys from ages 6 months to 16 years old has been increasing over the years. One side is saying yes they should participate because it builds confidence and the other side is saying no because it teaches them unrealistic standards of beauty. Toddlers should NOT participate in pageants because it shows girls unrealistic beauty standards, to imitate adults and unhealthy grooming habits. Child beauty pageants should not exist because it shows girls unrealistic beauty standards. By showing girls unrealistic beauty standards it shows them to not be themselves, the real person they were meant to be. Pageant participants often struggle with society's level of "perfection", dieting, eating disorders, and body image on through their adulthood. The society we live in today is absolutely horrible teaching young girls that they need to be perfect and as skinny as a twig to …show more content…

The main reason being participating in beauty pageants builds children's confidence and public speaking skills. Building confidence is not always the case often times children are discouraged and it ruins there body image in the long run. Contestants can earn money for college, it's not always the case though because what happens when children aren't winning, they then are earning money they are just losing self confidence. Also, many pageant parents say that participating in pageants is the same as playing a sport, which playing a sport requires time and money and puts intense pressure on them. Young athletes learn discipline, feel great pride in their accomplishments, and form lasting friendships which also happens in the pageant

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