OMG that's taking away their youth from them! Do they also wear make-up? I'm pretty sure they do :( Kids should be playing and studying, not participating in such contests.

they gross me out. its creepy they make them act like adults n teach them to flirt. eeewwww.

I think it should start sooner. They should have prenatal beauty contests. When will people finally realize it is whats on the inside that counts?

i agree. it's like getting your baby all dolled up to be sexy. Its really not right if you ask me.

Personally, I hate the idea. Childhood is the age in which children form their opinions and what they want to be/do in the future. If you force a little girl to dress up, and whatever other fluff they put on, that's what she's going to want to become.

My daughter is in the National American Miss pageant. There is no fake hair or fake tan allowed in any division and no make up is allowed at all until the teen age division. The girls are judged on confidence, personality, poise, an interview, school work, and volunteer work just to name a few. Check it out some time. It's great. Believe me I felt the same way until I found this one.

Yes, I think they do too. I'm scared for the kids and I don't even think that they should be putting make-up on those kids. I saw a documentary on it once and I didn't care for what I saw at all!

i think thats a bit sick they should wait till there older and can make ther own decisions,at least 13 or 14

Parents travel these circuit pagents one right after another. It's a money-making game by the owner(s) of these pagents and it's also fixed. I just heard the winner of the last pagent here in town also won 7 awards and the crown at the one held in Palm Springs. It costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars for a 4-day stint as the pagent director strings them along, telling them they are having a pajama party one night, a cape party the next, then judging the next day and won't announce the winner until the next evening. theyThey even charge parents $35 to attend the affair the evening their child appears on stage! This includes any small siblings the contestant may have - $35 for a 3-yr. old to attend with Mom or Dad is nothing but money-gouging. I'm sure the hotel also rakes in the dough from these hopeful parents and most likely splits it with the pagent. What a crock of ____!! Keep your child away from these pagents as they are nothing but a money-making outfit, whose purpose is solely to collect as much money from the parents of these little girls as they can get. THEY SHOULD BE OUTLAWED AND DRIVEN OUT OF TOWN. When a little girl doesn't win, it destroys her self-esteem.

Fact from fiction, truth from diction. The chance that these pageant moms can put so much presure on these kids is about the same as other sports. I think what is really at the core is some parents want to live a life through their girls they never had or wished they had had. And in some small way get an ego stroking as being pretty by proxie because they have pretty kids. No one should be surprised or blinded by the BS, pageants ARE based on beauty more than not. I know there are pageants where EVERY girl gets some sort of prize trying to be PC, but they are adding BS to BS. However those parents who have their girls involved un teen modeling has to know what is really up or they are cluless. http://www.dreamgirl-maria.com/index.php?page=view&hash=OdHodrr5wP79dpNBhJq4sPZzPBhmCH http://www.fascination12.biz/preview.htm http://romina-model.biz/index.php?page=view&hash=EHm6IwzF5rGGHy93i2etEkQGxFIVVH&pagenumber=4

I'm just thankful that they are unique to a country I don't live in.