Kelsey+Reynolds

Toddlers and children beauty pageants – Risk factors for severe psychological turmoils

 * 1) Make-up
 * 2) Hair extensions
 * 3) teased hair styles
 * 4) lots of hairspray
 * 5) Flipper or "fake teeth"
 * 6) sophisticated costumes
 * 7) Screaming crowds
 * 8) weird postures
 * 9) twitched face expression
 * 10) the children in the beauty pageants are ages 2-10
 * 11) usually only one goal, get the money and get the tiara and/or trophy and/or ribbon
 * 12) children do not enter at own request
 * 13) a female child that pay a lot of attention to her looks is prone to develop an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia
 * 14) paranoid features occur
 * 15) "no other girl is your friend here"
 * 16) Judges in these pageants somehow, judge and score your child’s physical features and talents looking for things that stand out but are still related to the child’s age.
 * 17) Mothers of these children are usually trying to live their own dreams through their young daughters
 * 18) have no free time to invest into building healthy relationships, behaviors, attitudes or follow their own dreams.

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