| Excuse me but I am a parent, just because I have a different opinion doesn't mean I'm a child |
Must be a teen mom. Do you have your own show? |
LOL! School's out, summer break has arrived. Damn. |
haha! I have two kids, thank you. I just don't see what the big deal is. This is what teenagers are like. I thought there was going to be drinking involved or something illegal. They're just dancing! |
This is obviously the facebook site of an event photographer and it is nothing compared to teens albums on facebook. Yes I've seen some by looking on my kid's facebook. I see no hard liquor, no drugs, no beer pong and piles of natty like cans. Also see no make out [old term for hook-ups] in the photos. See no girls fondling their boobs or flashing for the camera and no one passed out. Saw no comments about weed or coke. Yesterday I saw a new facebook photo of a 3 teens with one passed out and piles of beer cans and red cups. One idiot was arrested this year ........over 18. This event brought up be the OP was/is calmer than the HS dances and proms [kids passed out, vomiting, roughing up dates]. |
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I teach high school and have chapperoned a few dances. First, we have a rule "No four on the floor" which means, you cannot have both feet and hands on the floor. This is a popular way that girls dance now.
I swear, just by watching them dance, I thought I was going to get pregnant. however, I think it is good that Rockville is holding this event. It gives them SOMETHING to do in a setting where there isn't drinking, drugs, etc. Don't you all remember what it was like to be 15? Remember complaining how there was nothing to do? The outfits are skankarific, but blame the parents. Didn't they see their kid walk out that evening? |
| Kids do buy their own outfits with their own money, especially in an area like DC where you can take the metro (or the bus) to the mall and back after school or on weekends. And they carry bags and change into or out of clothing when they can. We did 20 years ago in a much more car-dependent area, even in middle school, so I'm sure kids today can figure it out. |
| Heh, I haven't seen the pictures, but I can say that I did much worse at 14 than "grind" dance, and somehow survived to a successful adulthood relatively unscarred. The key is not so much freaking out at what kids are doing (when it is not within the realm of imminently dangerous) but discussing it with them & doing what you can to instill values. Because 14 is not too far from 18, and then there's nothing left to do. I think this country has a really warped attitude of promoting teen sexuality & skankiness on the one hand, and then having this terrified puritanical attitude on the other. |
Go do your homework, kid. |
Not new by far. Was doing it 1985 and I'm sure it wasn't new then, either. Must be a kid. |