By Nadine Kam

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The Miss Hawaii organization’s little princesses received their crowns Saturday.

The Miss Hawaii organization hosted a luncheon to introduce and crown its Little Princesses, while helping to promote its Outstanding Teen pageant June 13 at the Leeward Community College Theatre, and Miss Hawaii pageant at the convention center June 27.

Current Outstanding Teen Halialani Perish, of Kapolei, and former Miss Hawaii Pilialoha Gaison were there to help crown the Little Princesses, who put their learned poise on display during a runway show of little girls’ Hawaiian dresses by Hawaiian Moon.

The Princess Program for girls 5 to 12 aims to school girls in social graces, etiquette and posture, with a former or current Miss Hawaii as mentor.

They sure start young these days. I was in high school before my friends and I signed ourselves up for finishing school at $500. To this day, I don’t remember how I got the money! Must have been a combination of my lucrative Zippy’s paycheck and babysitting money.

I showed some of the princess video clips to a friend and she asked if I thought these programs work because she had never been through one.

I dunno, to me it depends on the girl; you either feel confident or you don’t. You either possess a sense of self-worth or you seek it from external feedback. But as for the technical aspects, yes I’m glad I can deal with a restaurant table setting, and I know how to gracefully enter a car, when required, which is hardly ever. Most days I just plop down (low sportscar) with a loud “Ugh.”

If they had caught me before I became my own person (at 11), I might be less rebellious and more proper lady today. Or not.

Seriously though, the world might be a nicer place if more kids were taught etiquette.

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