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Date Posted: 07:28:05 07/25/02 Thu
Author: Anonymous
Subject: We were victims of the gurus and found out the hard way also. LEAVE their control and let your child be beautiful on her own.

I have a question to all the pageant "pro's" out there and I would like all of you to be honest with this post and yourselves -- No name, 07:28:00 07/25/02 Thu (cache-rp04.proxy.aol.com/152.163.189.169)
Is it really worth the $$$ you spend? To put a child on stage in these beauty dresses that cost $1,000+ even used, to pay $650+ on pictures that are touched up and don't even look like the child anymore, to enter these photo contests- that pick the same winners month after month- does this really give your child encouragement and self esteem?
What will they do with all of these wins when they have finished school and are out on there own?
Will it help them to secure a better position in society? Will it help them make a better life for themselves?

I am also at fault here, just like everyone else, and have fallen pray to these people who pray on pageant moms.
I was involved in pageants for many years until- I saw something I could not believe. I saw myself becoming so involved, I forgot what was most important. My childs future. Before I had known it, I had started tapping into money that was put away for a college fund, just to keep up in the pageant world!

My daughter has won her fill of titles and prizes, but the truth of the matter is - IT WON'T HELP HER GO TO COLLEGE AND MAKE A BETTER LIFE FOR HERSELF. I don't want her to depend on her looks or her sportsmanship to get thru life!

Education is the KEY to success! As long as your child is beautiful inside and out - who are these people to judge she is less beautiful than what you or she believes.

Pageants years ago, before we had to spend thousands of dollars, were fun.
We went to make friends, cheer those friends on and spend time with each other!
Now it is no longer fun- because people are concerned with how much everything costs!

Can you really allow someone to judge your childs beauty? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

ALL CHILDREN ARE BEAUTIFUL and I don't think anymore being on that stage should be the way we judge our children.

I don't think we should be paying these bottom feeding Guru's and people that pray on our insecurities!

Please rethink who your friends are because they probably are bashing you behind your back anyway!

Don't allow these people to run and ruin your life and your childs life by bleeding you dry!

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