The little miss contests are on my opinion a great illustration of the disappearance of childhood; little girls are competing on several fields; talent, beauty, walk; in order to get the price of the most attractive one. They are wearing makeup, provocative dresses, and sometimes have to walk in their bathing suit. The problem is that the parents' aim is to make their little girls look like seductresses, by trying to give a sexual image to kids who are still asexual.This phenomenon is strongly connected to the new media such as television and internet; as a matter of fact, they rendered this kind of contest very popular, and made some bored parents believe that there is nothing wrong about playing with their children as if they were mini barbies.
(see the 40 first seconds of the video)
At an age at which our parents were playing with little cars and dolls, those little girls are probably dreaming of becoming the new Paris Hilton: They are trying to act as if they were some 20years old star, when they are obviously not more than 7years old.
Of course this aspect is just one of the numerous problems caused by the new media to the childhood. I am assuming that what made me happy as a child, being in the nature, playing with animals, walking around with my friends, will not make my children happy the same way it did to me. However I strongly believe that one can control the media in his house, and even if it is mean the absence of television or of computer, there is always a way to escape it.
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