What do you think of the reality show Toddlers & Tiaras?

I cannot come up with any positive for this show. I was talking to my girlfriend about this show and told her how much I do not like this show and think it is unfair to the little girls. I think the show gives the little girls a wrong view on life. Kids should be learning about life and enjoying life, but the mothers of the little girls instead use their daughters for their own gain and not for the little girls. This is how girls gain distrust and anger towards their mothers when they get older and probably end up being rebellious. There should be a after Toddlers & Tiaras show which shows what happens to the daughters and mothers years after the show.

it is not my kind of show i feel like the moms exploit the little kids but thats just my opinion others may like it

It seems raster shallow. Thinking the only career these toddlers have to look for is to become beauty queens. I did hear that in the Southern United STates, that they think of this as a career choice, going from winning the crown to be the beauty queen for their particular town, particular club, and hoping to be the reigning queen of the United States and finally the World. I mean little girls like to play dress up and pretending to be princesses, but this is a bit too much.

Not my cup of tea but what ever trips your gourd! I can't watch it because all I hear is "Blah, blah, blah!". You've got pushy parents and tired and sometimes uncooperative kids who appear to prefer other things to being dolled up on stage. A few kids seem to like it, at least a little bit; but it is unbearable to see how miserable both kids and parents are over a crown they are paying someone to tell them that their kids is "cute"????? I have to admit that I just don't get it, and I find it hard to enjoy what I don't understand. I wonder if these parents saved or invested all the money spent on pagents, how much money would they have set aside for their kid(s) to attend college by the time they graduate from high school? Mmmmm, good question!

I have no idea what this show is about but I'm guessing beauty pageants. If so I think that it is gross and as you say, fulfilling the mother's dreams. All that slap. Yukkity yuk.

I think that show (and others) should be against the law and called child abuse, to say the least. They turn children into objects. It es a shame. A shame that they are done, a shame that TV makes a show out of it.

My client sometimes watches this. I think the parents (mostly mothers) that get into this kind of think should be filed for child abuse...

I think that the show is stupid! I really don't think that it is right for these mothers to put these children through this kind of pagentry. I don't mind that parents want to show off their children but I think that the kids should be kept much more natural than they are on this show. No one younger than 18 needs to be that "fake" to win a contest.

it is very sad the way most of them are teaching their little girls to put such a big responsibility on such small girls to win and be beautiful no matter how painful it is. these are going to be some really messed up women and need a lot of therapy if they dont kill themselves with anarexia or bulemia, etc.first

I haven't seen the show and have no interest in it but I'll bet it might get high ratings from pedaphiles.

yeah that show is really sad. one of my favorite reality shows, my life on the d list, had an episode where Kathy Griffin was one of the judges at one of these beauty shows. she was even shocked, and it's very hard to shock Kathy. She was joking saying, "It's nice to see really small strippers. It's always nice to know their roots." I've seen the show a few times and it's always crazy, the fake teeth they have called "flippers." It's just insane. there was also an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia where they mocked these pagents. those parents are crazy for putting their kids through that.

I really hate that show.It should be illegal to enhance the children's natural beauty. Yes show their talent if they have any,but do not fool around with their looks.They look like plastic dolls.It is a shame.And those parents should be charged with child abuse!Disgusting... but then we all know that money talk.May be if TV watcher would boycot this show,and their ratings would fall,they would cancel it! Wishful thinking!

The only ones who are natural are the little 11 month babies. The 5 yr olds look older like they are 14. They put on to much make up on their faces, the tick is to put it on light as if they aren't wearing anything make up to bring out their features.

I think the show is definitely sort of over the top. I think the idea of pageants can be a good one - little girls like to play dress-up and pageants are a great way of letting them indulge while allowing to perform their developing performance skills. (If you're going to violin, dance, or gymnastics lessons twice a week - why not be able to show off? Even at age 5?) I think pageants for older girls can be a great way to help them develop skills in how they should present themselves. However, Toddlers & Tiaras completely eliminates any of these positives and focuses on (fake) beauty and appearance. It's such a pity!

We don't get that program in australia. But I have heard about it. Infact, I have seen a news item about it. I think it is unbelievable that parents are allowed to get away with with abusing their kids like this. Basically that is what it is, as these kids are far too young to make a sensible choice about relaity shows, modelling, make up, cosmetic surgery, etc. What sort of values is it teaching them? How is it developing their brain?

hi stary oh I hate those shows like that and the silly moms exploiting their own kids. its just horrid and the things those little girls go through surely that's no way for a child to live to be dressed up like little tramps and made up like adult s.l.u.t.s its preposterous.five seems too young to me and all that make up and false stuff they are not having a normal childhood at all. its mostly for the moms to live vicariously through their little girls. its just not right in my eyes. not right at all.

That show makes me really angry.Children should be allowed to be children and not be a means of their mothers living out their dreams through them.I personally dont think beauty should be celebrated as it is merely an accident of birth.I think intelect and ability should be praised much more as that can be improved through hardwork.

Sorry, I'm not one of the positive people on this. Truth is, I have no clue how anyone can HAVE a positive view on this show. Its rude, disgusting, and an abomination to TV. How could people want to watch kids go through such treatment? Also how could some of those kids get away with saying what they do? They would get a hard swat from me if they said anything like that, and I'm not one for physical punishment with kids.