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Subject: Re: Tired of the Script Author: No name [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 05:40:54 09/23/15 Wed In reply to: 's message, "Tired of the Script" on 21:09:43 09/22/15 Tue Ouch, this was brutal. I am sure there are contestants that do not fall into this description. And I say that because I know some personally. They needed money for tuition and they won because they were talented, pretty, and comfortable in interview. Also, they were not raised doing pageants at all. They were raised to be caring, and respectful to themselves and to others. Maybe that was what the judges saw in interview. I'm not upset with you or your post. I feel some will agree with you. I just can't see where a blanket statement about a group of young women is helpful. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Tired of the Script Author: No name [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 07:13:44 09/23/15 Wed I think you make some good points. Many girls spend more competing and training than they ever win. But that is the chance they take. We spend thousands on our sons for sports, camps, lessons, equipment, travel teams, uniforms, travel expenses and neither played past high school. They wanted to but they were not good enough. They played intramural sports and fraternity sports and now still play some with friends or church league and city league. We would have loved if they got a college scholarship. But we would do it all again. And we are middle class not wealthy. The friends they made and the life lessons they made were worth every penny. Plus, it was a family adventure with them. Our daughter did dance and piano and fell in love with pageants after doing Junior Miss. So although she did not grow up with them from high school on she was hooked. She loved making friends, she loved performing, her interview skills are far superior to her brothers and all three were excellent students and graduated with honors but my sons had NO interview practice. She did. She only made top ten at Miss Alabama once and she won scholarship money at locals and at Miss Alabama all three years. She won in kind scholarships and that was huge. She would never have received those had she not competed. When we added up what we spent on pageants one time (wardrobe, coaching, training, etc.) she earned more than we spent. (We sold her wardrobe the month after she gave up her last title. She kept one gown that she altered into a cocktail dress. No, when you add up all her training for years she did not earn more than that but she never took those lessons to be in a pageant. She was doing that while her brothers played ball. We would do it all again. We might spend a little less the first year if we were starting over again. When I know people competing now I tell them to borrow and rent and buy second hand from girls again out. Then if they continue on they can buy designer gowns or whatever. And the interview dresses they were now are way less expensive than the suits our daughter wore. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]