PAGEANT ETIQUETTE
1. When you are in the audience, do not speak badly about any of the contestants. You never know if the contestant's family is sitting right behind you. Don’t speak negatively about the pageant, the pageant director and the judges might be within earshot.
2. Arrive on time, whether you’re a contestant or a guest.
3. Be respectful to each contestant by being quiet during her onstage walk or performance.
4. Clap for EVERY contestant!
5. If you’re in the audience and need to get up from your seat, please refrain from doing it during a child’s walk onstage. Wait until the contestant has left the stage.
5. If you’re in the audience and need to get up from your seat, please refrain from doing it during a child’s walk onstage. Wait until the contestant has left the stage.
For Pageant Moms:
1. If you’re going to be onstage with your baby or small child, dress appropriately, and help your child to shine!
2. Even if you’re backstage or somewhere else in private, do not criticize other contestants in front of your child. It sends a negative message to impressionable children and influences your child to emulate the same behavior.
3. If you want to give cues or stand up to get a child’s attention when she’s onstage to help her, do it from the side as not to distract the audience.
4. Congratulate the winners. This is a great way to teach to your child the importance of good sportsmanship.
1. If you’re going to be onstage with your baby or small child, dress appropriately, and help your child to shine!
2. Even if you’re backstage or somewhere else in private, do not criticize other contestants in front of your child. It sends a negative message to impressionable children and influences your child to emulate the same behavior.
3. If you want to give cues or stand up to get a child’s attention when she’s onstage to help her, do it from the side as not to distract the audience.
4. Congratulate the winners. This is a great way to teach to your child the importance of good sportsmanship.
5. If your child is one of the pageant winners, don’t allow her flaunt her victory front of the other contestants, but instruct her to be gracious to the other girls who competed with her.
