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Win Gracefully, Lose Gracefully
Parent's Name: Jeanie Webb Adcox Child's Name: Jordan Elizabeth Adcox
Brother's Name: Vincent Caleb Scoggins
Grandparent's Name: Terry and Gail Webb
Jordan has been competing in pageants since she was five months old. We were encouraged by a friend of mine to enter Jordan in a mall preliminary pageant. I had competed in pageants with this friend when we were younger and we decided to enter Jordan and her son in this mall pageant together. Jordan received a participation trophy and my friend's son won. We decided to try another one where Jordan won and my friend's son received a participation trophy. We traveled to the State pageant together in Charlotte where they both qualified for the National pageant in Atlanta. After the Atlanta trip we were hooked on the thrill of competition.
Jordan has had so many great experiences that many girls her age do not get to have. We have done lots of traveling and she has friends in all corners of the United States that we have met at pageants. Pageants for Jordan are just like any other sport or activity that any child could be involved in--it requires lots of practice but it's meant to be fun and if she not having a good time doing it then we need to find a new activity. Pageants do not consume Jordan's life. She is also active with competitive dance, tumbling, local art council theater, choir at church and just being a normal kid.
I hope that Jordan can take her experiences from pageants and use them to succeed in all areas of her life. It's hard to say if pageants have given Jordan the self confidence that she has or if it was born in her since she has competed in pageants all her life, but I feel that pageants are the reason she pursues her dreams the way that she does and succeeds in all aspects of her life. I feel that pageants are a learning experience for Jordan and sometimes she learns more from losing and how to do it gracefully that she does from actually winning.
I have no regrets about the time and energy that we have put into pageants for Jordan. My family and friends, and even Jordan's and her brother Caleb's friends, are very supportive of Jordan's hobby and are always asking how she does when we go to compete. (Everyone loves to see pictures from the competitions.) I feel that we are very lucky to have the support that we do because I know that some people look down on pageants but we have never had any negative remarks made to us and for this I am very grateful.
Our family enjoyed this experience with WE tv so much. It was a life-changing experience for me and the kids. Jordan cried for hours after the filming was over because she was going to miss the film crew so much. She talks about her experiences with them often and hopes to one day see them again. We would like to thank WE tv for giving Jordan the experience of a lifetime and we are so happy that we could be a part of the Little Miss Perfect family.
Special thanks to Deanna Williams, Teresa Mallouky, Tracey Pendergrass, DreamWeavers Dance Studio, our church family, Jordan's teachers, Principal and classmates, my co-workers and to all the people of our community and all of our pageant family and friends for your love and support. We will forever be grateful for the sacrifices that you made to make this a reality for Jordan.
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You win gracefully, but you do not lose gracefully. People got to know how you really feel, whenever you lose. Allow me to give you an example, from a giant on the stage of world histoy: "Gentleman, this is my last press conference. You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore."
Wow, your daughter at only nine has accomplished so much. My daughter's are fourteen, and thirteen, one has thirty one titles, and another has five. It's amazing how much these young girls can suprise you. I wish the Adcox family a lot of luck.
What is up with the mothers being so out of shape and/or not presenting themselves in a better light. They physically and mentally, are telling those girls, if you don't get it right, smile the right way,promanade the belly-buttons to the beat. This is your only opportunity not to grow up and look and act like your mother. Get your own lives and set good examples of self-esteem by taking care of your own bodies and lack of self-esteem! Just not a good scenario. The old "Don't do as I do, do As I say". If you all tried to look good and take pride in your ownselves, it wouldn't bother me so much that your children would want to emulate your ideals in the pageant industry.
it is just amazing. these fat torn up moms, if i were their kid, there is no way i would do this unless my mom stayed home. how do they to expect to instill discipline when they themselves can't push away from their plates at dinner.
the children are beautiful, but the moms are unbelievable. i would be ashamed of my mom.
I just saw the above segment, but am now watchng the segment w Hadlie and her Mother Lisa Ann Templin? I am BEYOND disgusted by Lisa Ann and her giving her child Mountain Dew as her breakfast and calling it the "breakfast of champions"?! She not only throws the worst soda ever created down her throat, but then makes her drink it again before her interview?! No wonder she could not answer a simple question; the sugar was rotting her brain.
Mountain Dew has almost triple the sugar in regualar soda, and Mountain Dew has been shown to be the leading soda that ruins childrens teeth and causes obesity.
I train overweight children for a living; showing them proper ways of eating along with introducing fitness and sports into their lives so they wont be overweight and have a lifelong battle with disease and weight. it DISGUSTS me when I see parents push their own unhealthy eating habits on their child. There is a reason Lisa Ann Templin is morbidly obese, and her pagent child will be as well if she keeps feeding her like Lisa Ann eats. Of course most of these nutso parents live through their children, but Lisa takes the cake...she should spend the money and time putting herself on an excercise and proper eating regiment. I dont think Ive ever been compelled to write on a blog as when I saw a parent like Lisa Ann.
Lisa Ann, contact me if you ever come to California.
I think Mr. Winkler needs to stop trolling the blogs. What do you do, go to each one and type the same crap???
You and those that come on here with nothing but nasty or irrelevant things to say should remain silent and spare the rest of us your ignorance.
What are you doing on a blog about little girls anyway!!!!!!!
I explore all blogs, because every blog has ignorant people needing to be educated. My mission in life is to educate the ignorant. You should except my teaching and show some appreciation.
Glad to hear some honest opnions after my last entry. I wasn't singling out just this mom,but really to the 85% that aren't setting good examples. I just don't have the time to write that to all the pictures of the mothers"competing with each other"on this show, so pass it around if you can. Lisa in Ca. I just finished writing and researching the energy drink industry, and the buzz they create to suck young adults and kids into this. If you want more info on this let me know. Good luck to all the young girls who face all these problems from the pressure and desire to earn their unhappy moms love.
Suzaane told us how wonderful a child Jordan is, and she is! What a beautiful young girl. We loved seeing you on tv last night. Everything she did rocked. I know if we lived closer , our girls would be friends. Your daughter has that "NATURAL GLOW OF INNER BEAUTY".Hope to compete with you sometime. Amber O
We need to be educated about Nixon???? Spare me and the rest of us would you please!!
Wow. There are some very interesting arguments going on.
Why would anyone enter a 5 month old in a pageant? How does a judge even score an infant?
"Nice gummy smile. Cute socks. Points off for excessive drooling, however."
Let's be honest here. That was all about you, not your child. What would an infant get out of that? Seriously.
However, I can see where a mom looking for attention would get a ton out of it. When you say "we" were hooked (can a child under the age 2 even consent to something like that?) you mean you were hooked. I'm sure it can be a high to some moms who are missing out on something in their own lives.
Until 5 month olds can sign a form of consent, they should not be paraded in front of judges for the sole purpose of being scored as a winner, loser or participant.
I am sorry, but I can't approve of you mothers and fathers allowing your little girls have hair, dress and sooooooooo much make up that they look like they are 25 years old just to win a Little Girl Beauty Pageant. The key words here are LITTLE GIRLS. And I really hate it when you moms and dads say on TV that you are doing this because your daughters really want it. I have seen the little girls crying, pitching fits not wanting to do this and I have seen one who didn't make it in the top 5 and she saw her mom run into a room crying because of it and this little girl told the camera she was alright with not winning, but her mom was not. Who is it here that wants to win? My main reason for being against these pageants and the moms and dads is: We have enough problems with sexual offenders in this world and you parents and pageant promoters are FEEDING these sexual offenders with these pageants. PLEASE STOP!!!! let these LITTLE GIRLS be LITTLE GIRLS. Stop trying to age them to the age of 25. And for the woman who said these pageants are just like have your child in sports. Well, I will DISAGREE with that. I don't dress my kids up to act and look an age they are not. Playing football they wear pads and helmets to protect them. Make up, fake hair, fake tanning and revealing dress doesn't protect a child. My husband and I have 3 teenagers. 2 sons and a daughter. When my daughter was growing up we were asked 100's of time to put her in modeling or pageants. We would not allow it because of all the reasons I have pointed out. If you want your daughters to be confident and be great speakers, then put them in Speech and Debate Classes. Parents wake up and smell the roses before it is tooooooo late for your daughters.
Why are there so many hateful people leaving negative comments? You don't have to watch the show. Pageants are not the only thing that dress up girls. Dance classes have recitals. Makeup, glitter and sometime hair extensions are used depending on what the teacher wants for the recital. Cheerleading has competitions. Have you ever been to a cheer competition? Hair extensions, glitter everywhere, makeup and costumes. Gymnastics also have some part of this. Makeup is used and so is glitter and those leotards leave very little to cover the child. Drama and acting - hmmm I don't know about you but I haven't been to a play that doesn't have actors/actresses wearing costumes, makeup and fake hair. NONE OF THIS IS CHILD ABUSE!!
Before you start judging someone why don't you look in the mirror and see your own faults. I don't think any of us could withstand being followed by a film crew for 10 days and then look perfect on television.
As for other sports such as soccer, softball, etc., how do you know that the children don't have other interests? Not all little girls want to play these sports.
Some little girls want to do things that are considered very girlie! Get over it!!
Jordan was completely outstanding. When she didn't win my daughters mouths dropped.
We also noticed she tried again, and got fourth runner up.
I also agree with ophelia105b, some girls do want to do things that are considered girlie, and do it because there fun for them. And some do need to get over it. People just assume what its like from what they, hear, or see on the television.
""""Cheerleading has competitions. Have you ever been to a cheer competition? Hair extensions, glitter everywhere, makeup and costumes. Gymnastics also have some part of this. Makeup is used and so is glitter and those leotards leave very little to cover the child. Drama and acting - hmmm I don't know about you but I haven't been to a play that doesn't have actors/actresses wearing costumes, makeup and fake hair""""
No part of the above competitions base their judging on prettiness or beauty. They base it strictly on technique. Where as in pagents, the little girls are judged on their prettines and overpriced dresses.
It comparing apples and oranges.
"""""some girls do want to do things that are considered girlie, and do it because there fun for them.""""""
Why can't they do something "girlie" and fun with out having them subjected to judging based on their looks? How fun is it to get all dressed up and then be told that you ar not "Perfect" enough.
Dear ophelia105b, It is obvious you don't have children or at least a daughter. If you did you may have a chance of understanding where I am coming from. We only put our daughter in something like singing, sports etc. that did not require her to change her appearance, etc. heavy make-up, fake hair, fake tan etc. If she has to change her outside appearance to win something or whatever she never did it and she is a perfectly bright and happy almost 16 year old and by the way she is a singer/songwriter. We will be going into the recording studio when she and her brother finish writing their 4th song. Believe it or not she- to this day doesn't wear ANY heavy make-up, fake hair, fake tan etc. She doesn't want to be someone she is not. I feel that the moms and dads putting their daughters in these BEAUTY PADGENTS are hurting them instead of trying to make them better kids. And whatever happens to the kids will be the parents fault. Do you remember what happened to Jon Benet Ramset? Her murderer has never been caught and that family never stoped blaming themselves for putting her in these padgents. This family and the cops think the killer could have been as a result of the padgents. The padgent moms and dads are taking the same risk of that happening to their child. Like I said before the sexual predators are out there and they won't stop till they get what they want. I don't want anything happening to these girls or any child, that is why I speak out. I don't watch Little Miss Perfect, I only watch it twice to see what happens. I hope you padgent moms and dads wake up and smell the roses before it is toooo late.
To g8torsfan: Jon Benet's death has not been proven to have anything to do with pageants. If you are going to make a statement then please use proper facts. You can't say that because a child is in a beauty pageant there is a greater risk of a killer coming after that child. If a pedophile is after a child it doesn't matter what the child is doing. That just doesn't make complete sense to stereotype pageant kids like that. That's great that your daughter chooses not to do the makeup, tan, etc. but if she does make it in the music industry, what then? I'm afraid she will have to wear stage makeup. The posters on this blog act as though the girls are doing this 24/7. People it is a hobby - nothing more.
To the poster who said that cheerleaders aren't judged on the makeup,hair etc at a cheer competition, I hate to tell you but they are. I am a state cheer judge and it is ALL part of the judging. Remember this particular pageant was only created for the show. There are also natural pageants that don't allow any of the glitz. I'm sorry but you will never convince me that pageants are bad. I have seen too many good things come out of pageants both glitz and natural pageants.
I love the show me and my girls watch it together and love to see who will win from our picks!I have even entered my girls in a local pageant and they both won overall in their division!We will be going to state next month and have had so much fun bonding with the shopping and practices!This show has actually brought us closer together !Bravo to Jordan and all of the other contestants and thier families for shattering all of the negative stigma that has followed this wonderful sport for years!
the people attacking heavy moms have no inner beauty and that counts to these are little girls moms their hereos come on lay off
Cute Cute Cute Diner Waitress Wow Wear!!! I LOVED it!
I know Jordan and her mother through other types of pageants and i have competed in pageants myself. i am 18 years old now and when you put all that work into something you love and you still lose it is very hard its still hard when your my age. And you people really have no right to get on here an talk about how the mothers look. If thats the way they want to look then let them be for all you know they might have a medical problem and cannot help that they have more weight. ITS VERY PATHETIC!! you people really need to grow up. Jordan you an your mom are both very beatuiful and sweet people. hope to compete with you again soon
Miss Jordan - WOW !! You blew me away girl..I think you are a beautiful, talented, funny and a very smart young lady. I have been a dancer for many many years, so I really enjoyed your wow wear routine! How creative and how cute was that? I actually did a similar routine (50's theme) when I was 9 yrs. old - it was my first solo routine :) You truly are a beauty - inside and out. Good luck to you and your family with everything you do in life.
God Bless,
Jennifer P
(Huntsville, Alabama)
I saw her episode on Little Miss Perfect and I have to wonder why your wasting your time with pageants? That child is beautiful. She should be modeling. Its a far harder world than pageants true, but it certainly pays better. And she could look more natural. I started my daughter in pageants way back when, we competed with Jon Benet Ramsey and actually beat her a few times. She was a lovely child, we still miss her. But after several years of winning, I felt we were wasting a lot of money for little gain. When my daughter turned 9, someone approached me about modeling. We wiped off the makeup, washed out the hair spray and never looked back. She modeled for about 6 years before we felt she needed to become more serious about her school work and stopped. Now she has a substantial college fund from her earnings and is preparing to attend a prestigious University in 2011. So my plea to you is, stop wasting your time and money on nothing. She is far to beautiful for that world.
All the negative people need to accept that there will always be parents who actively assist their children to excel in different activities. I was a competition dancer and pageant girl along with many other activities. In all, I believe pageants were much easier on me than dance competitions. No matter what your doing, in this world attractive individuals get further, and if you don't have the "natural beauty" make up will be there to enhance what God gave you. It's always going to be that way. I am very glad my parents decided to put me in all the activities I did throughout my life, which also included Girl Scouts, Softball, Volleyball, and Church dance. I am now a dance instructor and plan to open my own dance studio in the next five years. If my mother didn't "push" me to find my passion, I wouldn't be as successful as I am today.
I can tell Jordan has something special about her, and will continue to shine her entire life! I give her mom kudo's for being supportive in her interests, because it will pay off in her future. I wish your family well, and good luck with your future Jordan! :D