It's Honey O'Boo Boo time at Irish-themed beauty pageant in Illinois

Hopefully unlike "Honey Boo Hoo" they speak English and do not need a translator. Is it me or is that whole family mocking African Americans?

This has been going on in America for years, I think it should be stopped. They have started on our irish dancers in competitions, where they are all wearing curly wigs and it looks so foolish as well. Nothing to beat nature's beauty, and tradition. Leave the kids alone mothers.

Failed parents treating their daughters like market meat shame on them

SAD

These so called child 'Beauty Pageants' are nothing more than a form of child abuse. We Irish should have nothing to do with them! Have we learned nothing! Child abuse doesn't necessarily mean sexual or physical abuse.

I don't agree with these toddler pageants, but why does the article imply that anyone who would participate is the equivalent of Honey Boo Boo trailer trash?

Being from Georgia, I find that Honey Boo Boo, and the rest of her inbred family, to be an embarrassment not just too every southerner, but to every human being. How anyone with an IQ over 3 could watch a show such as this is beyond imagination. It is bad enough that television is inundated with shows like American Idol and The X Factor, now we must put up with trash like Honey Boo Boo, where the producers must use subtitles because nobody can understand a word these idiots are saying.

I agree with Leitrim666...it is child abuse. I don't get the fascination with Honey Boo Boo, either. Her family is trailer trash, she is way overweight and not cute at all. The world is going to hell in a handbasket, LOL.

Child abuse. This is about the parents (particularly the mothers), not the children.