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daycare teacher taught DD to "shake her booty"
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Anonymous
| Why are people associating dancing and booty shaking with 13 year old obnoxious, inappropriately dressed, teenagers? In addition to shaking her booty when she dances, my daughter thinks she is a princess. That doesn't mean she is actually going to be a princess or evena girly, girl for that matter. Your child being respectful of themselves and others is up to good parenting, not how they dance!! |
Anonymous
Yes, but the question is whether or not it's appropriate to teach this at daycare. |
Anonymous
Prude |
Anonymous
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I'm pretty confident that when the Hokey-Pokey was first danced it would have been considered riske.
As for "shake your booty", if you really want the behavior to end you need to 1) totally ignore it and 2) teach her something equally fun and amusing. If you react, she will repeat! |
Anonymous
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I am with the OP and would also be livid.
"shake your booty" has a sexual overtone and is not appropriate for young children. I have no objection to a child being taught to dance, swing their hips, whatever but my kid doesn't need to be taught slang phrases with sexual overtones while in daycare to describe the dancing. |
Anonymous
"slang phrases with sexual overtones". I think pp nailed it when she said these parents are scared their children will turn black. First Obama, now this... |
Anonymous
I don't know if it's a generational thing or what but "booty" does not have any sexual overtones for me. We use it on a regular basis since there's usually always a bag of Veggie Booty at our house. We also play Pirate Booty with a bunch of pirate/treasure stuff my sister put together. We use 'booty' for butt/bottom the same as we use "tootsies' for toes. Obviously, 'booty' has different connotations for some people. |
Anonymous
| this is OP - the way she was taught to shake her booty IS in a sexual manner, you have to see it to believe me I suppose, but I would not be making an issue about this if it truely was just a dance routine. this teacher thinks she's teaching high school cheerleaders and that's how I see it. its totally inappropriate and I really am suprised at the reaction here since we are taking about such a young child being exposed to something way beyond her years. very very sad IMO. |
Anonymous
Please don't turn this into a white vs. black thing....not everything is about that, seriously, move on. |
Anonymous
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Don't be disingenuous. It is well known that the popularization of shaking the gluteus maximus migrated to mainstream pop culture from a Black urban subculture.
Let me point out that this is one of many subsets in the culture. I am Black but never saw my parents dance and have friends who think it is sinful to dance in public. |
Anonymous
Ok, so let me get this straight, unless black urban subculture showed white people how to shake their butt when they danced, white people would have never, ever figured it out? |
Anonymous
Yes. So thank your lucky stars the KC and the Sunshine Band came around to serve as translators/messengers to us white folks. Thank you, KC! Thank you, Sunshine Band! That's the way I like it! [earworms provided free of charge -- you're welcome, DCUParents!] |
Anonymous
| Elvis knew how to shake it. |
Anonymous
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Elvis was just the most successful of the white artists to mimic black musicians' moves and sound and mass market them. That is why we love MJ despite the weirdness. He at least managed to get credit and wealth for his talent. Many others were cheated.
Oops! Scratch the preceding part. It suggests that something called racism once existed in our fair nation and we all know that never happened. |
Anonymous
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OP - If you are offended, you are offended. Don't let anyone tell you to lighten up. Only you saw how your child was moving and singing.
Could you ask the teachers about it? Maybe they could play you the song and you could judge for yourself it is offensive. |