Our school district has a dance club for interested sixth grade students. It meets four times for class and has a fifth meeting at a country club to celebrate and give students a chance to show off their new moves. All four middle schools participate together, and they learn dances like the law mower, headache, batman, pulse and box step. They teach how to be polite and treat others with respect.
Some parents have been asked by their children to refrain from dancing at dance club, not take pictures and not wear sweats. My daughter knows better than to ask me to limit myself in those ways. I not only dance, but I take pictures and videos, and I even wore sweat pants tonight so that I could move more easily. My friends, my daughter's friends' mothers, also dance. We even step in and dance with our daughters and their friends when they don't have a partner so they don't have to stand there alone. My daughter is having a blast and so am I. She may roll her eyes when I am videotaping the kids, but she loves to watch the videos and tell her dad and sister everything when we get home. I'm also content with the fact that these boys and girls know that if they hang out with Riley, I'll be around somewhere, too.
Some parents have been asked by their children to refrain from dancing at dance club, not take pictures and not wear sweats. My daughter knows better than to ask me to limit myself in those ways. I not only dance, but I take pictures and videos, and I even wore sweat pants tonight so that I could move more easily. My friends, my daughter's friends' mothers, also dance. We even step in and dance with our daughters and their friends when they don't have a partner so they don't have to stand there alone. My daughter is having a blast and so am I. She may roll her eyes when I am videotaping the kids, but she loves to watch the videos and tell her dad and sister everything when we get home. I'm also content with the fact that these boys and girls know that if they hang out with Riley, I'll be around somewhere, too.