Either way, this woman is one mentally unstable individual.
Has it been a big week in bone-headed parenting or what? I can hardly keep up!
Oh, wait? You have no idea what I'm talking about? OK -- here's the recap, Kerry Campbell who may or may not live in San Francisco has an 8-year-old daughter named Britney. Kerry (the mom) went on Good Morning America last week and told the entire world that she wants her daughter to be a superstar when she grows up. Apparently, she said at the time that Britney competes in beauty pageants but now it seems that Britney never was in any actual pageants.
Maybe she was just getting all dressed up and parading around the living room? At least that way, she was sure to win.
Anyway, Kerry appeared to be one of those extreme pageant moms who gives her daughter Botox injections in the face to prevent wrinkles. She ordered the vials from the internet (you can do that???) and did the procedure herself.
She also (allegedly) waxed her daughter's entire body to prevent hair from growing when she enters puberty. This is IN ADDITION to all the other pageant-related insanity like make-up and costuming, dance lessons, and so on.
I say allegedly because now it seems that Kerry Campbell is not so much an abusive mom as she is a pathological liar.
After her mom went public with all of these idiotic parenting choices, Britney was taken away by Child Protective Services and placed with relatives. CPS is doing their due diligence (one hopes) but are not finding any evidence that Britney actually had Botox or pubic hair waxing. (This according to the MailOnline, a U.K. based news magazine -- who knows how trustworthy a source it really is). But it looks like Kerry Campbell faked all this just to get on TV.
I don't know, is that better or worse?
These situation always make me physically ill. I lasted less than a year working in the pediatric mental hospital. And it wasn't the kids that drove me crazy. It was the parents! Most of the kids I worked with in the psychiatric facility weren't BORN with psychic and behavioral challenges. They became that way because of the messed up home situation they happened to be born into. More often than not, the parents were not at all willing to make even small changes that would help their kids.
It's just bone-headed!
At the very minimum, children deserve unconditional love and affection. When kids have this, they can withstand a lot. When they don't have that, even the smallest setback can have huge consequences. Even in tragic situations where homes and families have been by destroyed by natural disasters, children who feel safe and loved by their parent(s) tend to be pretty resilient.
I've said this before and it bears repeating: Children are actual human beings and you do not have the right to treat them like dolls, dogs, or as the conduit to fulfilling your childhood dreams. Just because YOU couldn't be prom queen doesn't mean that you have the right to make your daughter into one.
This is my problem with pageants and pageant moms: these so-called competitions are all about "winning" because of your looks and the looks are 95% fake. When a mother's self-esteem is wrapped up in winning these stupid pageants, the daughter quickly figures out that her mother's love s NOT safe and unconditional.
And that's just bone-headed.
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Tags: beauty pageants, bone-headed parenting, Botox mom, Kerry Campbell, self-esteem
