Eight-year-old Botox? What Is Going On Here?

in my opinion. It just don't smell right to me.

The needles shown are not the type for Botox, she may be pinching the child to make her think she's getting Botox and this is NOT commonly used in kiddie glamour pageants (which should be outlawed anyway).

She's not protecting her Botox source, she's saying nothing because there is NO Botox source.

I think Mom has mental problems and will right up there with Balloon Boy's parents who pulled the same kind of stunt.

Reality show, anyone?

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The mother is under investigation...

http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/05/13/6637542-mom... ( http://moms.today.com/_news/2011/05/13/6637542-mom... )

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I have never allowed my teenaged daughters to get acrylic nails due to the exposure of chemicals and possibility of nail infection. I cannot believe that this MOTHER, or any other mother for that matter, would inject their child with a form of botulinum to make them "more beautiful" for a superficial beauty pagent.

This poor girl's comprehension of what beauty is will be so out of whack that I can't imagine what her life will be like when she's a teenager! Also, the physical abuse her face has taken will probably leave her scarred for the rest of her life. God help her and the other poor children like her.

~merry~

Thank you all for reading and commenting! I agree with every word of your comments. I really think this woman is clearly out of line and made a seriously irresponsible decision. And we have not even talked about her getting her daughters legs waxed yet!

I hope this story is an eye opener and that other parents stop trying to make their children grow up and let them be kids!

This crux is that this is a decision that the child is not equipped to make.
I teach preschool and every year I get some weirdo softy mom who brings her sick child to school and says "She is sick, but she REALLY REALLY didn't want to miss school today!"
So the kid cried or whatever because they want dot come to preschool, but guess what, they don't know anything about social responsibility, protecting others from your germs, they don't know that school won't be that fun when you are about to barf...they are just 3 year olds. It isn't enough for the kid to say "yes I want this". THEY DON"T KNOW THINGS!

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I've been off to post on the linked blog.

There are some issues at work there with the mom, of that I am certain. Injecting chemicals into your child...

When my youngun was diagnosed with diabetes at 27 months, I had to give her injections twice daily. The first time... I am at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (for you House fans, DHMC is the teaching facility for Dartmouth College, akin to the fictional Princeton one in the show) and was told that my child could not leave until I mastered giving her injections. I stayed overnight with my daughter for three nights, and they promised to teach me by practising on an orange beginning on my first full day. At six AM, a nurse walks in with a prepared syringe, hands it to me, and tells me to give my daughter the injection. Um, I am supposed to practise...no practise, do!

ruh roh. I shook and I fumbled but I did it. My daughter cried. I cried, and I walked out of the room, out of the building, until I could get myself under control. Injecting my child was so damn invasive, it felt so very wrong, and I had to come to terms with that. (Now, some ten thousand plus injections later, and with a 19 year old daughter... I have a bit of time in between.) Yet that first one is seared into my memory. To think that this child's mom can grab a syringe and stick it in her child so she can win a beauty contest... it strikes me hard in all the wrong places.

nellewrites ( http://nellewrites.wordpress.com/ )

but, like Lori, I was also befuddled by the mother giving her 8 year old daughter botox injections. I have an 8 year old daughter, and if I had my daughter in this type of activity, I certainly would not be giving or getting her botox injections. Little girls need to be little girls. And pageants are a good way (provided a mother doesn't take it too far, i.e., wigs, false teeth, etc.) to teach manners, posture, and like things. But, when a mother accepts what other parents are doing with their children as gospel and goes blindly into the procedures thinking it's okay, then I have a problem with it. Granted, the mother in this case is a part-time (who knows how part-time) aesthetician, but does that make it alright? Definitely not, I don't think its right for a mother to inject her child with botox injections. Botox is a purified form of botulinum, a neurotoxin causing botulism - in essence, poison! I shudder to think what this little girl will look like in a couple of years if mom does not keep up with the injections and her source dries up and goes away. Where will she get her poison then? Has she given that any further thought? I watched the interview on GMA this morning and was astounded at how well mom herself looked. Nary a wrinkle on her face either. I'm guessing she's also injecting herself.

Donna