National Missing Children's Day 2024 is on Saturday, May 25, 2024: national american miss experience?

Saturday, May 25, 2024 is National Missing Children's Day 2024.

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Hi! I was in NAM and really liked it. It was good for me and a really helped me with my confidence. I wish I had done it when I was your grandaughter's age.

The $480 fee is required, but you really do not have to spend all that on a dress. Really. Especially on a 5 year old. There are plenty of good dresses online and at resale for $90 or less.

Also, this is NAM, not what you see on TV. The clothing is very conservative and they do not even let the girls wear makeup until they are teens. The optional contests have nothing to do with the scoring for the pageant, so no points there. Those are just fun things you can enter if you want to.

The pageant has a dressing room for the contestants and you do not need to stay at the hotel. Or, you can stay at another hotel nearby. The pageant is two days. You can come to the early evening stuff, the night before, but you really do not need to. It is just an early checkin and a get acquainted thing. About half of may age group was there for the early stuff.

And on the cost, I raised most of my fee from my dentist, grocery store and things like that. Yes, my family helped some and I really appreciated that.

Oh, the community service thing is a new or slightly used children's book. You already have those that she has outgrown. No need to buy another.

If you want to spend all of that money you mentioned, it is possible, but you really do not have to. Not at all. Enjoy this time with your family. You will be glad you did.

I have been in soccer, dance and lots of other things, and all of those things cost a lot of money when you add it all up. But I got the most out of NAM.

SAHM's, do you miss working outside the home?

I was completely miserable as a SAHM. I was very isolated and missed the adult interaction. I hated it, and my children didn't recieve the attnetion they deserved because of it. I needed to have something eles in my life. One good option is getting involved in the school, or PTA. You get some social interaction, but still get to be invovled with your child's life. You should be able to do school full time, which will occupy more of your time. I'd consider finding part time employment, even if it's during the day while your kids are at school and outside your career field.

can anyone tell me an essay on children's film please i need it!?

"I can't think of a single good children's movie that adults can't enjoy," critic Pauline Kael opined in her excellent Kiss Kiss Bang Bang essay, "Movies for younger children." For the most part, I agree. However, E.T., Star Wars, Jurrasic Park come to mind as pictures that children sincerely adore, I, an adult, abhor.

Still, most films which I loved passionately as a child I continue to savor in my creaky semi-maturity. Some ever-favorites (parents: all are available on video!) which grabbed me first when I was in elementary school: Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Boy With the Green Hair, The Thief of Baghdad, How Green Was My Valley, The Searchers, Rebel Without a Cause, Them!, Shane, National Velvet, The Man Who Knew Too Much.

They all come from a pre-techno, pre-computer, pre-Ninja/Beavis/MTV age. There are no digitally created crashes or explosions; the emphasis in these films is on character.

None are cartoons!

Can movies improve on Charles Laughton's lovestruck hunchback swooping down from the Notre Dame rafters and rescuing Esmeralda from the madding Paris crowds? Or be more touching than when Brandon De Wilde chases after his gunfighter pal, imploring, "Come back, Shane! Come back!" Or be more frightening than when the Comanche, Scar, kidnaps little Debbie in The Searchers?

Consider that 1944 masterpiece, National Velvet. It starts with one of the most lyrical, breathtaking, and yet zen-simple title shots in cinema: for several minutes, the camera follows behind Mickey Rooney as he saunters down a placid country road. There's true Technicolor green grass and a blue ocean, and Mickey whistles. That's all. But wow! The other excitement is violet-eyed Liz Taylor as the girl who loves horses with a holy adoration.

"Frankly, I doubt I am qualified to arrive at any sensible assessment of Miss Elizabeth Taylor," wrote the great movie critic, James Agee. "I am choked with the same admiration I might have felt if we were both in the same grade of primary school."

I'm similarly choked, because Boston film venues are suddenly, in early 1998, waking up to providing old-style children's movies.

The Harvard Film Archive is showing Carroll Ballard's beautiful Never Cry Wolf (1987), a biologist among wolf packs in the Yukon, on Saturday, February 7, at 1 pm. The Museum of Fine Arts has scheduled Two Tales by Beatrix Potter for February 21 and 28 and a collection of youth-oriented shorts, Films for All Ages, for February 17-20.

Most ambitious is "For the Young at Heart:Classic Children's Matinees," Saturdays and Sundays at the Coolidge Corner. Here's a rundown of this gift-of-a-series, in 35mm:

Little Women(1933). I wish this early version of Louisa May Alcott held up better, but twenty-something Katharine Hepburn is impossibly hammy as Jo at this post-Bryn Mawr point of her career. The recent Winona Ryder version is far superior.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr.T (1953). This adaptation of Dr, Seuss is a must-see, eerie nightmare about a 9-year-old (the grand Tommy Rettig) trapped by the megalomania of his sadistic piano teacher, Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conreid). Dr. T plots to have 500 boys practice piano 24 hours a day, tormented by his ruthless pedagogy. Meanwhile, Dr. T, jails musicians for daring to play other instruments than the sacred piano. Among the fine songs-and-dances: a musical parade of the incarcerated, including piccolo-playing prisoners!

The Secret Garden (1949). Margaret O'Brien is the bratty British orphan shipped to a mordant castle estate in rural England. It's an effective mini-Gothic Jane Eyre for children, in which little Margaret unravels the secrets of the castle, among them, those of its intensely gloomy owner. In the middle of the estate grounds, under lock and key, is the titular garden. Why hasn't anyone entered it for ten years?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1939). Mickey Rooney is a slightly flat Huck, but the great African-American actor, Rex Ingram, makes a wonderful Jim. This film is stripped-down Samuel Clemens: there's no feeling that here's an adaptation of one of America's handful of literary masterpieces. But it's interesting to see foregrounded 19th century racial attitudes: even such an anarchic spirit as Huck believes that slavery is sort-of-OK, and that abolitionists, not slaveholders, are the enemy.