TLC Couponing Soda-Pop-Chugging Toddlers and Tiaras Trend Brings Controversy
In a recent episode of The Learning Channel’s hit show, “Toddlers and Tiaras”, viewers were introduced to a young pageant sprite Alana. Like many little American girls Alana is proud of her sloe-eyed couponing mama, known in the Junior League circles as “Coupon Queen”, and craves the alluring attention that coupon money and beauty affords. But many may ask, is this a good example for young girls?
Today’s world puts even greater pressures on young girls to succeed. Examples of how to carve out success and capitalize on the blessings of charisma, charm and good looks are in short supply. Girls need good examples to mimic. Too many young girls are given lip service to get an education. While fine for the less attractive, those actions can only lead to a life of tears, coffee flavored Häagen-Dazs and multiple cats or a career in veterinary assistance.
Mother’s Little Helper is BPA Free
One of the secrets to pageant success and bringing home the cash prize is Alana’s ‘Go-go’ juice. Watching this program with my daughter, I let her know that sometimes a little picker-upper is necessary when so much is at stake. Sometimes a cup of coffee in the morning, with a little brandy warmth to chase away a winter cold is a great thing before dashing off to first grade. Maybe a little cough syrup to sleep so mommy and daddy can have some quiet time is good girl thinking. But the example Ms. Alana and her feckless mother provided was clearly wrong.
What I found unacceptable is the fact this child was drinking from a BPA plastic bottle. As a mother I was horrified to see this on The Learning Channel. BPA leeches hormones into the product, even when made separately and added to the bottle, that when consumed can create irrational behaviors in children. This is clearly evident in Alana’s little hissy fit. This is why I never let my children drink soda and always poured their dinner wine in a metal sippy cup, not plastic.
“Go-go juice makes me laughy, and play-ey, and makes me feel like I want to pull my mommy’s hair.”
Viewing this peek into the lives of those reaching the pinnacle of what passes for middle class hopes and dreams leaves me with some unanswered questions. 90,000 rolls of aluminum foil and even more toilet paper, but only two pieces of furniture in the whole house? Who lives like that?
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11:47 pm
Wait….so them drinking a plastic bottle is bad but not show? The show is unacceptable to me. It’s disgusting that’s what it is.
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1:18 am
For once we agree. This show is much disgusting. I dont know what a PBA is, I trust Blanches judgement in this, but go go juice? looks like mountain Dew or one of those energy drinks to me. She is clearly doping this kid.
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1:19 am
Kids this young shouldn’t be drinking energy drinks.
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1:28 am
Amen. They should also not be acting like ghetto black women.
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4:19 am
I don’t know what to think of this show. It’s certainly Jon Benet Ramsey territory. I mean to say it’s like a television show for pedophiles sometimes. Aren’t these girls too young to wear earrings and makeup? Well, in my mind yes.
On the other hand, I do think it’s wonderful to see people celebrate the traditional notion of beauty and femininity in our girls. They don’t all need to dress in jeans and trucker caps and plaster themselves orange like many do. I think parents have just given up on suburban kids in so many ways. I think of the heartland when I see this show, of people with family values and Christian faith. The church has never shied away from celebrating the nature of women in our domestic culture. They are the most essential component to a solid family and I just wish the multiculturalists who seek to define these things with two daddies understood.
As for BPA, the problem of hormones and diet is one of the things that the mainstream media avoids and it’s absolutely scandalous. Flouride in our water, corporate antibiotics in our beef and no one really has the guts and to stand up for this.
Alex Jones does a lot of reporting and so does Michael Savage. The conservative thinkers know about this and are probably the only ones speaking out. I thank God for their crusade.
Well tonight I’ll thank you Blanche for an interesting look into two fascinating topics. Be well my beautiful friend!
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4:49 am
I like the way you always get to the heart of the issue, Stephenson. Sure looks and what is on the outside matters to an extent but what is on the inside is far more important. Good Christian family values and a loving home can really perk up a young child and allow their best to shine through.
Have a beautiful weekend, my friend.
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1:52 pm
“I do think it’s wonderful to see people celebrate the traditional notion of beauty and femininity in our girls.”
“our” girls? Last time I checked, you didn’t have any children, Billings.
“The church has never shied away from celebrating the nature of women in our domestic culture.”
No, it hasn’t, and that’s what pisses so many people off about the church.
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10:42 pm
Please don’t suggest that I hate women, Claire. I find that hurtful and childish. Haven’t I always offered to be there for you when you’re down? Haven’t I offered you my friendship time and again?
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1:22 am
If she talked about the show itself and not the drinks in it, that would mean she would have a point, and that would cause the world to end because that means she somehow has a spark of intelligence in her.
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1:30 am
LN everyone here agrees that this is wrong, except you. What will it take to agree that we are right? What they are doing is wrong! Even PeeBroth aka meth cook Phillip agrees with us!
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1:32 am
I never said the show was good, just that if Bitcham actually talked about how bad the show was, it’d cause the end of the world since she would have a point.
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1:35 am
Claire,
Just admit you have a go-go juice problem and fondness for BPA containers. We’re here to help.
BB
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10:06 am
You seem to be the one with the “go-go juice” problem considering that’s not Claire, it’s L.N.
And here I thought you could read…guess I was wrong
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1:45 pm
This is Bitcham we’re talking about here, her ability to think is nonexistent, let alone read.
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1:49 pm
Um…I wasn’t aware that I had commented on this article.
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2:14 pm
Alun or Claire, What is the difference, Really?
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2:35 pm
Tons Bitcham. For one, ‘Alun’ isn’t someone who posts here. Second, Claire’s a woman, and I’m a man (I know, it’s such a mind-blowing concept for you people, but trust me on this one, guys ARE capable of not being women-beating Christians!). Third, we’re two completely different people (I know, another mind blowing concept that’s hard for you all to wrap your brains around, it must sound like madness to you that people can be DIFFERENT and yet respect one another!).
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9:23 pm
As I was saying…. very little difference.
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12:02 am
Blanche, praise you for bringing hidden dangers to the forefront. Next to uneducated and immature girls getting appointed nurse at 16, BPA is Americas biggest preventable killer.
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12:23 am
The medical community agrees. BPA causes a whole host of issues, especially for toddlers.
“A study from the University of Chapel Hill highlighted the dangers of children exposed to BPA from baby bottles and baby food containers. Toddler girls exposed to BPA were considered more aggressive and hyperactive than those with less exposure.”
http://www.3fatchicks.com/6-health-dangers-of-bpa/
In men it can result in erectile dysfunction.
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2:20 pm
BB,
I wonder if our societal friend consumes BPA en-mass?
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1:23 am
What kind of quack appoints an untrained 16 year old as a nurse? I wouldn’t let a 16 year old pet my dog.
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2:18 pm
I guess it happens in Massachusetts all the time.
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10:30 pm
I became a Certified Nursing Assistant, you old hag. I was trained SPECIFICALLY for it and had to pass a test. The duties of a CNA include:
-measuring and recording intake and output
-measuring and recording vital signs
-giving or assisting patients with bed baths
-assisting those who need help eating
-changing diapers/bedpans
-changing beds
-removing urinary/IV catheters
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10:23 pm
“Next to uneducated and immature girls getting appointed nurse at 16″
1. I became a CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT at age 16.
2. Explain how I’m uneducated, please
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10:25 pm
1, You assumed I was talking about you?
2, Exactly
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10:32 pm
1. Considering how you replied to Susan saying “it happens in Massachusetts all the time”, you were OBVIOUSLY talking about me
2. Not a valid answer, sorry.
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1:11 am
I was just about to write on this. As a christian I do not believe in the false lie of Reincarnation, but seeing this I wonder if a ghetto afro-saxon woman was guned down in a drive by and was then reincarnated into the body of a beautiful white girl.
Or did her inbred cousin parents create her? Everytime I see or hear from the emosexuals I fear for this generation and the future of this nation. I didn’t think it could get worse. But I see that it has.
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1:13 am
Is the next generation to be even more lost then this one? And what kinds of parents whore their children out for gold plate plastic tiaras? Child exploitation such as this is sickening.
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1:16 am
Susan, I am glad we can agree on something.
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1:24 am
amazing isnt it
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1:26 am
hey wait a minute…are you Peabroth the theist? God job on taking a step towards responsibility. Next you need to get a decent image not a emosexual panda or whatever that is.
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2:14 am
No! I like this picture. And has nothing to do with emo or homosexual.
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2:40 am
ur an old quack so no1 cares
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5:27 am
rofl ur not a christian ur a fake dusty old poser
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1:29 am
These liberals and their mixing of races leads to this sort of frightening afrosaxon behavior in what would otherwise have been an innocent white Christian girl. Coupons are fine, but she is headed for a life of foodstamps with that ghetto talk.
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1:31 am
Amen to that!
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1:38 am
Good Point, Ice. I think the BPA containers need to be removed from this child’s environment. They are clearly having an impact on her speech patterns.
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1:55 pm
You just can’t hide your racism well whatsoever, can you?
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1:50 am
When I was 6 year old handful of trouble, my mother used to give me a spoonful of whiskey to shut me up. Nothing wrong with that.
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8:30 am
Rip Van Winkle called. he wants his name back.
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2:44 am
I get the feeling that the parents are probably child-hating liberals, trying to kill off their child so that they can get money from the government and they won’t have to work as hard. They can better ration their welfare checks, which I think is the motivation. Absolutely disgusting. I wish she had parents who weren’t so misguided.
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5:34 am
I hate this show and what the girls are being made into (snobby bitches).
But I think your way off target there Mr. Creepy. I don’t think any of them are trying to kill their kids off.
Most likely the mothers weren’t popular or pretty in their youth, so their forcing their kids into doing these pageants, essentially trying to live their dream life through their kids. which is just a bad as brainwashing
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6:52 am
If what you say is true, Fatty, I certainly hope you never become a Parent because they will become anorexic and vegan (since it is obvious that you love your triple Whopper burgers), and Anorexia and Veganism lead to a life of Lesbionics.
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7:55 am
Your stealing Susan’s bit too? Dude, be creative f
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9:17 am
I liked how someone praised this even though its the one I mess up with
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8:12 am
Your stealing Susan’s bit too? Dude, be creative for once and at least come up with your own insults
Anorexia: Bad
Vegan: Nothing wrong with it
Lesbionics: Nothing wrong with it. Also, the previous two things don’t lead to being a lesbian considering being a lesbian isn’t a choice.
You don’t know me, you dot know what I like or not or even what I look like.
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8:29 am
Come on? we are talking to a person named “Christopher Christenson”. That is obviously fake, “Ice Van Winkle” he stole that from Rip Van Winkle. “Blanche Beecham”
That means White. which im very sure was made up just because this site thinks blacks are evil. “August Weisz”
clearly fake. “Susan B. Xenu” Xenu came from a asian last name and clearly susan HATES asians.
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9:25 am
I believe you are reading way too much in to people’s names. Names don’t mean anything, unless it is something like “Imani, Deshawn, or Claire”, those people are going to be failures 97% of the time.
Source: http://christwire.org/2012/01/12-baby-names-that-will-doom-your-child-to-failure-for-2012/
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9:33 am
Oh look, August’s dumbass article…Nice source…
Why does your name sound like Bruised Anus when said out loud? I think the name might lead into your secret life…
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1:50 pm
It’s because Prissy is in fact a gay man who masquerades as a straight Christian. He’s currently dating a black man yet he’s so delusional, he thinks he’s dating a white woman. He can’t tell genders apart anymore, it’s all blended in his head. What’s REALLY funny is he’s also racist, which is going to be hilarious when he actually comes down to earth and sees his ‘precious white girlfriend’ is really a black man.
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2:42 pm
We caught one of the fake christians in the act, heh
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1:48 pm
So spending god knows how much on makeup, jewelry, and fancy dresses and such is somehow a scam to get more money? Christ, you can’t even look at the actual reasons why the show’s so bad, you have to go in a completely different direction to get to the end, just so you can bash liberals along the way. You say that, and yet you sacrifice children to your dark lord Satan.
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8:55 am
Alun,
I’m sure your ‘Big Government’ thinking is popular. You want to tell this tax paying, working class American family how to spend their money? These are not actors, they are real people that have made pageants a fun pastime. Soccer costs money for uniforms, shoes and travel – do you want to issue spending edicts on that as well?
Why do you hate American families so much, Alun? My article only outlines the important health impacts of using BPA plastic bottles and the effect on children’s health. That is something everyone can get behind to keep insurance premiums low.
BB
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