Oct 6, 2011

Toddlers & Tiaras

As I watch my 26th episode of Toddlers & Tiaras, I am having these emotions:

Disgust/sadness- Fairly obvious but it really grosses me out to see how many moms will put fake hair, teeth, nails, tans, eyelashes, etc. on their 3-year-olds. Not to mention the physical and psychological stress. These ladies are crazy in so many different ways and they're kids are paying the price. That's really how you want them to think life works?

Smugness- Because 1. my unborn children already have such a better chance at a healthy normal life than any of these kids and 2. any of my nieces or nephews (oh yeah, there are boy divisions in these things) would cream any of the ones on this show without any of that fake junk. Easily.

Confusion- 1. Their names are usually something like Eden, Sparkal, Diamond, Kragen, Angelle, Jaigen, etc. 2. At least half of the kids hate doing it and are completely miserable and rotten to their parents. and 3. They spend crazy amounts of money to go these pageants and the highest cash prize I've ever seen awarded was $750 and that's only for 1 girl. Such a waste! Put them in rec center soccer if you want them to learn some life lessons without ruining them forever and without getting yourself a 3rd part-time job to pay for it.

Fear- Our netflix wedding gift subscription is about up and I am scared 1. no one will ever let us bum off theirs now that they know the trash I watch. 2. I'll never find anything as entertaining to keep me company during my silent, lonely days and 3. once in a while there's a really cute girl that stays natural and actually likes doing the pageants, and then I think it's all really cute.

7 comments:

hanner said...

that is not the first time i've heard the name kragen, and i still hate it. (no offense to anyone whose baby is named kragen. sounds too much like a grocery store.)

Siouxzy said...

Kragen sounds like a gargoyle name to me. Your kids are going to be amazing!

regan said...

So I guess I should stop referring to us as Kragen.

momacita said...

You are right on so many levels. There are much cheaper and better ways to mess up your kids.

Veronica said...

+1 to Regan's comment.

Lacey said...

I get stuck on the show. I don't know why or how. Prolly the silent and lonely thing.

Lauren Swainston said...

That Pam Swainston. She got us one too, and I had to give in and pay the 8 bucks a month after it was up. Luckily I did or I wouldn't have been able to watch a whole season of NY Ink while I had the flu last week. Maybe we will move there and I can watch really bad tv with you all the time.