Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power is a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space, and indefinite in duration.

I saw a "Toddlers and Tiaras" today, and I couldn't help it.
First item -The mothers. How could they do that to their children? I understand wanting their children to be the best, but really! Giving them super sugar drinks? Telling them to show the judges their bellies? Spoiling them so much? They may be "winners" now, but what about when they get in to the real world? When they aren't the center of everything? Maybe one or two will be able to model, or be a pageant winner, or whatever, for a few years, but then what? Marry a rich guy and keep living off him for the rest of your life? No! That's not acceptable! Do they think that teachers and other students will put up with those little baby b****s in training (I apologize for the bad word- I can't think of another one)? They are destroying the lives of their children! Setting them up for failure, and teasing for the rest of their lives. And some of them, they let their children hit them, and do anything they want! They can't do that out here! The rest of us won't pick up their slack! We won't put up with their spoiled little "But Mommy let's me do anything! She says I'm better than everyone! Mommy doesn't make me do that!" attitudes! No! Just no.
And some of those poor little girls hate it! They don't want to be pageant winners! Their mothers are forcing them to it! It's not fair to that girl to ruin a girl who could have been very successful in her future, but they had to go and spoil them and teach them to think they're better than the rest of us. They are not better than the rest of us, and it's going to be hard for them to adjust. Did their mothers think they could just keep their little girl with them forever? Because they can't.
Two- The girls themselves. There was one girl I saw who actually looked like she might be decent - until she started talking about herself, and how she was going to win because she was better than all the rest of them. They hit their mothers, they are conceited, they think they can be successful because they are pretty. Only a few people can do that, honey. Only a few can succeed because of their looks. The rest of us have to rely on brains or athletics (though I have problems with athletes, too, just not as many, and I guess I'm an athlete too, so- actually I don't have problems with athletes. Never mind) or just plain perseverance, because those stars and models are a very small percentage of the world. But mostly it's the mothers that p- tick me off. Ruining the successfulness of their children's lives. If I could smack them across the face, I would.
Forgive me. Another rant about horrible people. I seem to have a lot of those lately. Especially because of that one teacher - I actually have materials, like reference book and book of quizzes to prepare myself for the ending test. I apologize. I really dislike people like them.
This is the clip I watched. A waste of six minutes I will never get back. Watch it to understand - it will make you want to rant too.