I totally disagree my daughter did pageant for 25 years. Has one of the best interviews for job a person can have (we have had several people that interviewed her for jobs tell her she needs to teach classes on this) Can get on stage and talk she is not nervousness. Has helped pay for college. Has offered her a opportunity of a lifetime meeting new friends and going many places. We always knew where she was on the weekend not out at party's. And yes she was a child she did all the kid things. Now my granddaughter is in the pageant and loves them but yes she is in the yard on the weekend planting flowers jumping on the trampoline playing on her 4-wheeler. Pageant are not bad.
I completely disagree with pageants, I don't like them I think they create image insecurities, my child looks amazing he's gorgeous and handsome last thing I need is go some idiot to tell my child he's not good enough to win a stupid tile or crown! I don't think pageants should be for kids period.