National American Miss - Never again!
This was our first year at NAM and will definitely be our last!
Everything was very organized and started at the time that it actually said it would. My daughter had a good time, which I'm happy about. My daughter did a whole lot better than I thought she would had, it's like she got a confidence-booster when she got on that stage. But by the end of the pageant, I realized that this pageant was just like all the other ones!
I thought this pageant was going to be different. I was so excited about the no makeup rule because they wanted the girls to be natural, that the girls should be themselves, that the girls should act age-appropriate, and dress age-appropriate. Now after doing this pageant, I see that this is all BS!
If you want your daughter to be a top runner up or even a winner, then the *** you are the better chance you have to win. Make sure that in their introduction, that the answers that your daughter's give are not age appropriate. Go ahead parents and answer the questions yourself, and then tell your daughter what they need to say in your words not in a 4 to 6 year olds words. Plus, if your child is in the 4 to 6 year-old group then the closer she is to 6 then a better chance you have to be a runner-up or even a winner. The interview outfits, don't worry that outfit doesn't have to look like an interview outfit. The formal wear, they don't have to be age appropriate either.
Don't trust what NAM is saying in the magazines and the pageant preps. It's all lies!
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It was my granddaughters first time and she loved it, but was upset she didn't place. I think if you don't pay for any optional you don't have a chance at all. My opinion!!
This is incorrect in so many ways. My daughter was in this pageant system and we paid for ONLY THE PAGEANT and she won.
That is actually how a lot of the queens do it, they donโt do the optionals at all. Their only goal is the crown and to get to the national pageant.
The optionals have absolutely no bearing on who wins the crown at all.
I personally think itโs a good thing to do at least one optional because it will be your first time on stage and it will help get the jitters out for when youโre on stage and it actually counts toward the crown. But if you want to save your money just donโt bother with them.
i agree. nam is an awful pageant system because all of the same girls win each time.
if you are fake and rude, you will win. if you are real and nice, you wonโt win. if you say youโve had 1000 hours of community service in the past year, your wrong, but judges think itโs real.
if you are thinking of doing nam, i guess you can try it, but donโt expect to win. the real ones only win about 15% of the time!!
totally agree!
Sounds like you're just mad your daughter didn't win, my daughter has competed in NAM since she was 9 years old and at now 16 she's preparing to compete again. She has only held a NAM State Title once, but she keeps competing because she loves it, because NAM is honest about what they say, you will not win if your child wears makeup before being a jr.teen and interview attire has changed but its changed to be more accommodating, the year my daughter won she wore a beautiful interview suit but this year she wear in a gorgeous pink dress that she fell in love with, saying you don't have to wear interview attire is untrue there are many options in interview attire and NAM has always been about age appropriate.Having said that I take true offense to you calling the girls "fake" my daughter has won and has never been fake nor have any of the amazing girls she has met from all over the country. She has met some of the sweetest, smartest, most giving girls during her years at NAM maybe you should learn to take the focus off winning because that's not what's most important it's the friends they make, the skills they learn and the fun they have.
If your daughter have won so your should not be even looking at the complaints parents have left this website and defent this organization.... like why you are you even in this page ??????
Probably you are just lying and you must work for that stupid Pagent organization .... when my daughter participated last weekend I saw a buch if Little beautiful girls crying because the trophies were given to the ones who already participated year before and the ones who paid the most money on the optionals . This organization already knows who will win probably their parents work in the committe or have families working there .. If all those little girls were taught such of skills like you are saying why I saw so many little girls crying??
They Are litle girls they donโt understand those skills they say they will learn by participated in this pagent .... they all have an illusion of becoming a princess , be recognized , feel beautiful but instead of feeling like it and be confident itโs the opposite.
This is totally shameful and I will pass my voice and make other families aware of this stupid pagent organization..... they donโt care about the girls they just care about making money ...
OK, first it is a business so obviously they are there to make money. Thatโs a given.
However my daughter who is now 24 years old made so many friends at her pageant and they are still friends years later. She learned public speaking skills and interview skills which were invaluable when it came to interviewing for educational programs and electives. She learned to be self-confident in front of hundreds of people. She learned that determination is key, but even with that sometimes your goals are not achieved and you chalk it up to experience and keep moving forward.
She learned that first impressions count, because if you think about it the total time the judges see the contestant is four minutes. One minute on stage in formalwear, one minute on stage with an introduction, and two minutes in an interview. Thatโs it.
So there definitely is not a whole lot of time to make an impression. Kind of sounds like a great life lesson to meโฆ
Your message is so true after our first year. My daughter is 8 and everything focused on the older group, as well as the same ones winning the optional trophies
Sour grapes...