Chaos Factor

 Kiddie beauty pageants are bad enough: those primped and painted little girls, mincing in high heels and inappropriate outfits are enough to make any normal parent gag. 

But a recent story in The Sun newspaper about a Botoxed 8-year-old is sheer insanity. In a nutshell, mother Kerry Campbell injects her daughter Britney’s face with Botox every three months. She also waxes her daughter’s legs and pubic area as a precautionary measure. Next year’s plan is eyebrow tattooing.

‘She is a lucky little girl and is going to be famous because of the benefits I am giving her so early,’ the newspaper quotes Kerry as saying.

And not surprisingly, the mother says her daughter participates in pageants and is by no means the only one who is undergoing these ‘beauty treatments’.

No doubt this mother has good intentions, believing she’s giving her daughter advantages she never had herself. 

What has gone wrong in this home, in this world, that a mother would think it’s okay to inject a substance into her young daughter to prevent wrinkles?

How is it possible that society doesn’t value natural childhood beauty above the artificial plasticity of miniature adults? It’s up to us as a society to correct the imbalances that make this sort of thing possible.

Or is there a thin possibility that this is all fine? Perhaps, just as I encourage my children to read and practise their maths, this mom is maximizing her child’s success. What would your advice be to other mums?

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