Monday, April 18, 2011

And the mother of the year award goes to...

So I read here that there is this mother in San Fransisco who is trying to prepare her daughter for a life of stardom, fame and success. No, she's not sending her to performance schools or letting her taking voice lessons. Instead she chose the fast and surefire way of getting your kid to be famous, yeah you guessed it, botox injections and virgin waxes. (which kind of worked, since now she's in the papers, theres a start!)

excuse me? She's eight years old. She should still be playing with dolls, not worry about when she's going to get her nose done! What has this world come to?

What baffles me most is that this mother isn't even giving her daughter a chance to reach for goals of her own. And that issue doesnt just apply to girls, it applies to boys as well. It's (almost) the same as a father forcing his son to play football so he can become a football star... minus the extremely unhealthy beauty treatments. It makes me sick.

1 comment:

  1. We've come back to parenting in so many different ways this semester...it might be interesting to write up personal manifestas about what you all might want to do or not do if you ever parent children and why.

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