Parents Defend Daughters’ Slutty Dancing

Damn I waited all day for you to post this Sandra and fell.asleep before I saw it. This right here was pure ignorance. I saw it on another site and was posting about it and it was a clear generational gap. The younger kids felt it was okay, common for dance while the older posters felt that there was nothing routine about it, that regardless of how good the dancing was there was no excuse gor the outfits and adult moves. I’m about to read the comments and what you said Sandra to see if the same things are being said here. My 9 year old dances and actually has a competition this month. They are wearing black leggings with black tops that fully cover the stomach area and there dances are nowhere near as adult as these ones but they are just as talented. The choreographer of this routine shamelessly gave into the sex sells movement and the parents either didn’t know or didn’t care. There are two city cheerleading squads where I live that cheer for the local youth ball leagues. My older daughters both wanted to join since their school doesn’t off cheerleading but I wouldn’t allow it because there’s been a massive movement in the city, people are pulling their kids out, several coaches have been fired because the dance moves they were teaching the youth were the same moves you’ll see in the club Saturday night. Even with the new “cleaner” cheers, I don’t trust them to lead my girls because until parents started fighting back, the city got involved and they felt reprecussions for what they were teaching the youth the advisors leading it thought it was okay. Parents need to be involved with every activity their child does, many use extracuricculars as after school/weekend care and don’t realize the kids what the kids are doing until they see the competitions or whatever. Smh its a damn shame

Okay I just finished reading all the comments and I’m at a loss so I don’t care if its so late no one will see this I’m still gonna say it. After reading and commenting on this last night on the other site I thought that the differences between those agreeing wuth the parents and those who felt it was inappropriate was the result of a clear generational gap which is why I wanted you to post this so bad Sandra cause I just knew that the older more mature readers would see the real problem here so I’m shocked to see so many on here approving this fluckery. It has nothing to do with race religion or whatever and everything to do with parental incompetence and lack of morals within this country if this can be looked at by adults and thought to be normal, only slightly obscene, or tame compared to what other kids are doing or have done. My three daughters don’t dance like this, the younger ones think dancing is jumping up and down and twirling, my oldest doesn’t know how to pop anything and when she comes home doing the latest ghetto dance she learned from school she is immediately popped. She knows how to praise dance, she knows the little jazz/ballet mix dance that she’s taking in school none of them know moves like these or how some of you are describing. I’ve said it before MY kids don’t watch music videos or listen to none of these songs and they don’t go to anyones house who allows children to watch or listen to that garbage. My oldest although she is developed she has a childs mind and she thinks most of these dances look “stupid and gross” and that’s exactly what I want her to think. Growing up my mother wasn’t strict on music like I am but she didn’t play when it came to children doing hoochie mama dances and she would be quick to smack the shit out of her child or niece and send any fast tailed girl dancing like that in her house straight home with instructions not to come back. I didn’t grow up in the type of family where they thought it was cute for little girls to dance like grown women and they never encouraged that kind of mess so maybe that’s why I am like I am and see the problems with this “routine” that others seemingly are missing. Someone said that people grow up and forget that they used to be kids too and do some of this ish and I haven’t forgotten at all. I remember school dances and the girls who would be freaking on the floors and in the corners. That was never me and most of those girls had babies before we graduated high school. @Ms. Truth, I remember the majorettes and dance squads in high school and yeah they did all kinds of stuff but they weren’t wearing lingerie while doing it and they were at least high schoolers. These kids aren’t even in the double digits yet. I was a cheerleader at this age and we wore a sweater with pleated skirts and shorts underneath. We did our cheers, minimal dancing and that was it. I remember a lot of the shit I did as a young girl and even though nasty ghetto dancing wasn’t one of them, most of what I did ill be damned if my children do. That’s part of being a good parent, teaching and guiding your children so they don’t make the mistakes you made growing up. Just because these girls are dancing like this in a professional competition and are non black doesn’t make it right that they are under 10 dressed in ruffle bras and panties dancing period. They’re doing spins, kicks, popping body parts in lingerie for judges with men and women in the audience and now men and women worldwide watching. There’s no way you can excuse this. If it was just the dance then maybe, maybe I could say risque but whatever but even Beyonce wears more than this at her concerts and she’s a grown ass woman and she wore more in the video they got a lot of the routine from. Yeah I wrote a book again but I can’t believe how many are cosigning this nonsense or just writing it off as a sign of the times. When will people start standing up for the children in this country and put an end to this madness? Have we become that desensitized by the constant sex sex sex in the media that nothing fazes us anymore? Or is it because they’re not “our” kids that makes it okay to simply write off. These same kids will one day be in high school or college with your sons and daughters. These same kids will one day be leading this country so we should care what they do just the same as with our own and if these kids were black it’d be a different story and different comments. Its not just dancing. There’s a way to dance, have fun and be appropriate and there is a way to dance and look like a skank. This is skank regardless of talent. Smdh