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Danielle Lindemann

What Reality TV Reveals About Motherhood

Most mothers have never glued lashes to their daughters’ eyelids for pageants. They’ve never, as the moms on Toddlers & Tiaras have, gotten their children’s legs spray-tanned. They haven’t stood in the audience, cuing their kids’ routines with kissy faces and arm sweeps, hollering, “Get it, girl!” and “Sparkle, baby!”But they may have let their kids sit too long in front of the TV, faces slackened and minds empty.