Why you should watch Toddlers and Tiaras and Dance Moms

When I was a little girl I had a neighbor down the street from me who loved twirling her baton so much that every weekend her momma would take her to her "Shows" to perform in a showcase with lots of other girls. It seemed pretty normal back in the eighties if you had 2.5 kids as was the average then to have one in karate class and one in ballet. Some did just this and some went full press and put their baby girls in bows and red lip gloss and sparkly little shoes and thus became "Pageant girls" If you were a little girl you could either be a girly girl or a tomboy. Of course sometimes when i grown up sees a child they don't see a small independent mind separate but dependent on a constant source of information. They see a a living breathing doll that they can use to play out their dreams in a sort of puppet show with the added bonus of bonding time and functional life skills they are teaching to the children. The beauty of seeing all this hullabaloo on television is lots of color and drama and exciting goings on but zero guilt. It's not your child. You can emotionally bond with the success and beauty of the teacher or the dress maker or even the overworked pageant mom and again, zero guilt all pay off. The reasons you would like such a show would the same you go to a state fair to see the biggest cucumber or the best pie. It's pretty, it's unusual and really? Who needs a twelve pound tomato, but it's a sight to see isn't it? Just marvelous and clever a thing to behold! For the same reason I would watch a bossy mom tell a fabulous instructor she paid for the third time or whine when her girl doesn't get first position in the dance line. It's better than People magazine and a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream! Zero calories and you can even TIVO it and watch it when you should be doing something more productive like folding your socks or cleaning out your car.