02-08-2014 8:54 PM
Have been in the bedroom on the computer and my wife was in living room watching tv. Went through to see if she wanted a cuppa and she was watching "Blinging Up Baby" !
What has gone wrong with these people thinking that what they are doing to their children is ok ! Fake tans, nail polish etc on very young girls ! Come on let children be children as they will grow up quick enough and I believe these very young girls will grow up to be very vain and believe they should be treated as someone special.
God help these parents when these children grow into spoilt teenagers expecting everything they want and ask for. I see huge tantrums ahead.
02-08-2014 9:06 PM
02-08-2014 9:14 PM
These parents are making a rod for their own backs. For heavens sake, let children be children. These parents have stolen their children's childhood if that makes sense.
02-08-2014 9:19 PM
its a very clever doc, the participants are so proud to be strutting their way of life on tv, as always desperate for a few minutes of fame, but its exposing and hilighting them as ridiculous and the funny thing is that when they watch it on tv they wont even get that. good for the people blinging to sell, laugh all the way to the bank. jeremy viles waiting room!
02-08-2014 9:48 PM
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03-08-2014 6:43 AM
I just wonder what kind of adults these children will grow up to be !
I myself was brought up in a mining village and we were poor in monetary terms but extremely rich in good neighbours and friends who were in the same boat as us. We played outdoors in the woods climbing trees, going fishing, playing football when all the boys had done their paper or milk rounds and chipped in to buy a ball.
Ok we were scruffy and had skinned knees etc but we were happy and healthy.
The children in this programme will never get to know the enjoyment of being children, playing with friends and hearing the laughter of a group of friends doing something silly together.
Even to this day I would like to think I am polite and helpful, at nearly 60 when I meet my uncle I still call him Uncle Jim and if I can help anyone with anything I will do so.
Will these children even be taught it costs nothing to be nice to other people ?
03-08-2014 9:00 AM
Well said dark_castle my childhood was much the same as yours 😄
03-08-2014 10:02 AM
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03-08-2014 11:08 AM
Ahh i wondered if anyone else had seen that programme. Disgusting i thought it was. TOO MUCH,,, young girls merely out of Babehood dressing like that and having Fake Tan sprayed all over them. And the Beauty Pageants??. They should be ashamed of themselves the mothers and the people who arrange these money spinning Contests!. Thing is i cant understand where they were gatting all the money to get these expensive clothes and treatments?. There did not seem to be fathers on the scene, and even if there is why do they want their daughters looking like THAT?!!!!.
I was never allowed to dress like that, nor did my mother want to dress me like that. And she would never have put me in a contest and tried to make it look like i wanted to do it!!!. The dark haired mother with the little girl who did not want to go on the stage looked very disgruntled at the end. How dare she make her daughter feel like that!!. Shameful!
03-08-2014 12:09 PM
Did you see the 'Kids with Guns' one in the week? Mind boggling!
03-08-2014 4:02 PM
Dark Castle said it all for me.
I actually didn't know we were poor until I went to work, before that I had no yardstick to compare, because where I lived everyone was the same! I remember my mother going all out to make sure we were well turned out, and we had summer boaters and winter hats and coats (C&A). I have always thought it am working class thing to be well dressed, I'm always the one who is over rather than under dressed at any social function. A hark back to the days we had nothing.
There was a family member (in-law) who turned up at my Papa's funeral in a pink and white candy striped dress, we, all in our sombre black, were appalled, especially the elders. I, as the eldest grandchild got the job of relaying this 'faux pas' to her. She was going to meet a friend at the airport directly afterwards. My Uncle Jim, whose daughter in law it was, then told her, I don't care if you're meeting the Queen Mither this is my faither's funeral. He did use rather more colourful language. Oh I miss him, he was great fun.
These kids, as Dark Castle says, are missing out so much on the basic learning process of growing up,hide and seek, kick the can, rounders and much more - shocking. And yes, I did watch part of the Guns thing, until it got to the father whose 6 year old son accidentally shot himself. What a world.
03-08-2014 4:42 PM
Dark, Fishy and Rainy said it all....it was the same for me, we had to watch our p's and q's. We got presents at birthdays and Christmas, but not inbetween. New clothing .... hat and coat...at Easter and Christmas.
they are so spoilt nowadays and not taught manners, it's a shameful world, like someone has said, they make a rod for their own backs, when these kids reach their 20's they'll be demanding little rotters.
03-08-2014 5:41 PM
It is all wrong the way these children are brought up. At the end of the day, manners cost nothing. Having said that, I've come across some older people who are totally devoid of manners. If anyone else 'forgot' to use their manners towards them, they wouldn't like it.
When I was growing up, money didn't grow on trees. Up to me being 11, there was only my dad's wage coming in. As has been said, I only got presents for birthday and Christmas plus a new outfit for Easter. I certainly don't feel like I missed out on anything as I had a really good upbringing even though money was tight.
04-08-2014 11:26 AM
@ilove2patch wrote:Did you see the 'Kids with Guns' one in the week? Mind boggling!
OOOhh YES Patch that was Awful too,, that poor girl with the father. He said she was doing it for herself!!!!. Errrr i dont think so!!
04-08-2014 12:24 PM