"spraytan" - 1 õppematerjal

Beauty pageants for small girls should be banned

there are a growing number that include boys as well. I firmly believe that taking part of beauty pageants is pressured by contestants' parents. It is their vision of how their children should look and act like. Some children do not want to partake in those competitions because it is tiring and chaotic, some children even do not understand what it is all about, because they are too young for that. In my opinion, a child who looks absolutely gorgeous without fake teeth, spraytan and an enormous wig is forced to wear all of it just to measure up to her parent wishes. I am not convinced that beauty pageants help to promote selfesteem in children. It can be promoted only if the contestant wins, otherwise it starts to form wrong image of this little human being. Most parents see pageants as a great opportunity for their children to get to know their body and practice performing, but the effect is the opposite