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Mosaic Monday

Written By: Jenn - Sep• 14•09

OF course by now everyone knows that my Teen was at camp almost all summer – I’ve certainly talked about it enough! Didn’t have much in the way of pictures though – today, even though I’m SUPER late with this addition (Sorry Mary!) I thought I’d put some of her personal pictures together for a Mosaic Monday post. She certainly had a fabulous time, and met a lot of terrific people.

Please spend some time visiting the wonderful Mosaics at Little Red House’s Mosaic Monday!

Six Word Saturday

Written By: Jenn - Sep• 11•09

I don’t need much. Just sleep!

 

Toddlers and Tiaras. And Pedophiles. Oh My.

Written By: Jenn - Sep• 11•09

I’m going to switch gears for a minute and talk about something that has been bothering me for years.

For a long time I’ve found toddler beauty pageants disturbing. I can’t be the only person who clearly sees how destructive and, well, evil it is for these disgusting, socially retarded people to dress innocents up like Fake Tart Barbie, and parade them around for all to see.

As the mother of 2 beautiful, intelligent daughters, maybe this just hits a little too close to home for me. I cannot imagine loving my children so little that I would put them through something like this. It’s my job to protect my babies from the world and the pedophiles in it, not dress them up like fantasy creatures and throw them to the wolves – who are probably those involved in “judging” these pageants – so I can feel better about myself.

Did these mothers and father – oh.my.god. – who are obviously living vicariously through their babies, not learn a single thing from the Jon Benet Ramsey tragedy? We all know that sad little girl’s story so I won’t belabor it here.

This morning as I was putting this post together I spent some time on YouTube, looking for videos to emphasize my words. I found a huge amount of commercialized videos that are supposed to be showing the “happy world of child beauty pageants”, but really just showed crazed mothers doing horrible things to their little girls, all of whom were uncomfortable and complaining about it, all in the name of their idea of beauty. What prepubescent child should be put through having her eyebrows shaved, hair viciously teased and ratted, her entire body, head to toe, spray painted with tanner, and her teeth bleached? What message does that give the child? That she isn’t pretty enough – not good enough – without having hours and hours of work done on a regular basis. That’s what.

I could go on and on, but this video sums up exactly how I feel about these women:

Momtards indeed! These disgusting, brainless bimbos should be jailed for what they have done and are doing to their children.

I cannot believe this show is on TLC. Exactly what are we supposed to learn from this travesty? That it’s ok to exploit children, and sexualize them by dressing them up like hookers? That it’s hunky-dorey to stress your toddler out, pressure and bully her to perform, and berate her when she fails? How about how it’s chic to try to relive your own failed dreams by channeling your miserable desires through your own child? Oh and let us not forget that these degenerates are also making money off the labors of their daughters.

This channel used to have integrity, but now they clearly only care about what gives them the biggest bang for the buck. I won’t allow my children to watch it anymore – we are officially boycotting TLC, which is a real shame, because there are some other great shows to be seen on that channel.

Shame on the parents, judges and supporters of this horrible, fake world. Bigger shame on the media for glorifying it.