Problem: (PEOPLE.com) -- For nearly three years, the hit TLC show "Toddlers & Tiaras" has captured the drama behind the scenes in the world of child beauty pageants.

The tantrums were extreme, and the pre-show prep of spray tanning and eyebrow waxing seemed perhaps premature for little kids.

But in the last few weeks, as footage of 3- and 4-year-olds dressed in overly adult costumes (like Dolly Parton, complete with padded breasts, or Julia Roberts's streetwalker from "Pretty Woman") hit the airwaves, viewers and pageant skeptics have been expressing horror at an industry that is now accused of "sexualizing" young girls.

"Little girls are supposed to play with dolls, not be dolls," New York-based licensed clinical social worker Mark Sichel tells PEOPLE in its new issue.

He adds that the extremes parents go to in order to prepare their children for competition -- using padding, fake hair, flippers (faux teeth) and spray tans -- "causes the children tremendous confusion, wondering why they are not okay without those things."

Now devoted pageant moms are speaking out in their own defense. Wendy Dickey, who dressed her daughter Paisley, 3, as Julia Roberts, tells PEOPLE the look was "tasteful and funny." Still, "If I knew there would be a reaction like this, I never would have used it," Dickey says. "Next time, she'll be dressed as an angel."

And Juana Myers, whose daughter MaKenzie has been featured on Tiaras, says unfair scrutiny has been placed on the pageant industry. "If this were a sport, no one would question it," she says. "This is her sport."
1. What's the main topic?
2. In which format?
3. In what channel?
4. Is the show somwat overboard?
5. How so?
6. Who were the participants?
7. Did they impersonate anyone?
8. Who?
9. In what character?
10. Did audience took it okay?
11. Why?
12. Who said that?
13. Who is he?
14. Where did he commented that?
15. Was he worried about the kids?
16. Why?
17. Like what?
18. Was there any responses from other side?
19. Who were they?
20. Any specific person?
Answer: 1. child beauty pageants
2. a tv show
3. TLC
4. yes
5. tantrums were extreme
6. 3- and 4-year-olds
7. yes
8. Dolly Parton
9. Julia Roberts's streetwalker from "Pretty Woman"
10. no
11. Little girls are supposed to play with dolls
12. Mark Sichel
13. a social worker
14. in PEOPLE
15. yes
16. it confuses them
17. wondering why they are not okay without those things
18. yes
19. pageant moms
20. Juana Myers

Q: CHAPTER XXLANDING ON CAVE ISLAND

At the end of a week Dave was more worried than ever. Each day he and his chums went down to the shipping offices and each day returned to the hotel disappointed. Not a word had been heard concerning the missing vessel and those on board.

The _Golden Eagle_ was all ready to sail on her return trip to the United States, but Phil told Captain Sanders to wait.

"Perhaps we'll hear to-day," he said, and this was repeated day after day.

It was very warm and the boys were glad they had brought along some thin clothing. They scarcely knew what to do with themselves, and Dave was particularly sober.

"I suppose Mr. Wadsworth and the rest are waiting to hear from me," he said to his chums. "But what is the use of sending a message when I haven't anything to say?"

Another Sunday passed, and on Monday the boys visited the _Golden Eagle_, and then went with Captain Sanders to the nearest shipping office.

"Something is going on!" cried the senator's son, as he noticed an unusual crowd congregated. "Must be news of some sort."

"Let us find out what it is!" returned our hero, quickly.

"The _Emma Brower_ has been heard from," said a man, standing near. "That's the vessel that was missing, don't you know," he added.

"What of her?" asked Dave.

"Went down in that terrible storm we had about ten days ago."

"Down!" gasped all of the boys, while Captain Sanders looked the concern he felt.

Answer the following questions:
1. was it warm out?
2. who was wearing thin clothes?
3. was Dave drunk or sober?
4. was he worried?
5. what was he worried about?
6. who was the captain of the Golden Eagle?
7. what happened to The Emma Brower?
8. had it been missing?
9. how long ago did it sink?
10. what caused it to go down?
11. where did the Captain find this out?
12. what did the senator's son notice?
A: 1. Yes
2. Dave and Phil
3. Sober
4. Yes
5. A missing vessel
6. Sanders
7. It sank
8. Yes
9. Ten days ago
10. A storm
11. At the shipping office
12. An unusual crowd

Problem: (CNN) -- The mother of an 11-year-old boy who hanged himself after allegedly being bullied at a Georgia school says her daughter also has been a victim of taunting.

Masika Bermudez-Carrasquillo, who Friday asked the White House for help in a campaign to end school bullying, said her daughter, 12, was also recently harassed by a boy who kept referring to her dead brother.

The boy was disciplined but still taunted the girl before he was suspended and his mother withdrew him from a middle school, she said.

Since then, the boy's mom has failed to meet with her, Bermudez said. "I guess she doesn't care."

The mother, who wrote a letter to President Barack Obama about bullying, held a news conference Friday to ask for help.

Jaheem Herrera was found dead in his closet in April.

"Til this day, I live with that memory of seeing my son hanging in the closet; my daughters are so hurt too," Bermudez wrote in the letter.

Bermudez told CNN that Jaheem, a fifth-grader, had been complaining about bullying at Dunaire Elementary School in DeKalb County. Bermudez said that at the time, she did not know that the bullying had gotten so bad. Friday, she indicated Jaheem once passed out after boys put him in a sleeper hold at the school.

Administrators and others won't take responsibility for this and other incidents at the school, she said.

"I feel like I failed him," Bermudez said of Jaheem. "I can't get justice. A year has passed, and they keep denying it."
1. When was Jaheem found dead?
2. How old was he?
3. What grade?
4. Where did he go to school?
5. What sort of bullying did he suffer?
6. How long ago did this happen?
7. Is the mother attempting to get the government involved?
8. Did school faculty admit fault?
9. What is the mother's name?
10. Does she have other offspring?
11. What's her name?
12. What happened to her?
13. By whom?
Answer:
1. in April
2. 11
3. fifth
4. Dunaire Elementary School
5. boys put him in a sleeper hold
6. A year ago
7. yes
8. no
9. Masika Bermudez-Carrasquillo
10. yes
11. unknown
12. she was taunted
13. a boy