Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 11:13     Subject: Cotillion
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know some girls who did it, and within months they had forgotten all about it. It was a big, stressful, expensive ordeal for nothing. Completely pointless except to bow to the peer pressure of the moment.


I think we're talking about different things. The cotillions around NOVA meet once a month and have a dance in the spring. It's not big, stressful, or expensive.

OP - just know that your rascal tween would be asked to leave if he's not following the rules. That happened to a boy in my DD's class and I think it was a good lesson for him (he was back at the next session).


I’m all for a healthy dose of embarrassment.

I think the hardest is to have the kid buy into it.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 10:30     Subject: Cotillion
Anonymous wrote:I know some girls who did it, and within months they had forgotten all about it. It was a big, stressful, expensive ordeal for nothing. Completely pointless except to bow to the peer pressure of the moment.


I think we're talking about different things. The cotillions around NOVA meet once a month and have a dance in the spring. It's not big, stressful, or expensive.

OP - just know that your rascal tween would be asked to leave if he's not following the rules. That happened to a boy in my DD's class and I think it was a good lesson for him (he was back at the next session).
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 10:18     Subject: Cotillion
Anonymous wrote:It’s not something I’d ever put my kids in. I can’t believe how many “woke” parents put their kids in it (looking at you arlington).


Arlington is not that woke.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 10:15     Subject: Re:Cotillion
I saw a few people in my social media recently doing this. I was shocked it still exists.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 10:09     Subject: Cotillion
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Any experience with this? When do you start taking your boys and girls? If you have a wild boy (tween) who thinks it’s cool to be a rascal, is it better to wait or start early?



A “rascal?” Are you 80?


Not OP but been hearing the term rascal quite a bit. Are you judgmental?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 08:50     Subject: Cotillion
I know some girls who did it, and within months they had forgotten all about it. It was a big, stressful, expensive ordeal for nothing. Completely pointless except to bow to the peer pressure of the moment.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 07:54     Subject: Cotillion
Anonymous wrote:It’s not something I’d ever put my kids in. I can’t believe how many “woke” parents put their kids in it (looking at you arlington).


Oh look, it’s the poster obsessed with wokeness.

Of all the threads.

Your obsession is so tiresome.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 07:47     Subject: Cotillion
It’s not something I’d ever put my kids in. I can’t believe how many “woke” parents put their kids in it (looking at you arlington).
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 07:44     Subject: Cotillion
Cotillion is so tacky and try-hard.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 07:44     Subject: Re:Cotillion
The kids in our NOVA area do it in middle school.

One of the things it focuses on teaching these days is how to talk to people in person vs online.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 07:43     Subject: Re:Cotillion
Our friends did it for manners/eating properly. The boys who didn’t do it are just as mannerly; the boys who did it still eat with their mouth open.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 06:40     Subject: Cotillion
Anonymous wrote:Any experience with this? When do you start taking your boys and girls? If you have a wild boy (tween) who thinks it’s cool to be a rascal, is it better to wait or start early?



A “rascal?” Are you 80?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 06:34     Subject: Re:Cotillion
What would be the difference?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 06:22     Subject: Cotillion
It is an outdated southern tradition that most of the US, and the world, does not participate in. Find a manners class insteead
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2021 05:43     Subject: Cotillion
Any experience with this? When do you start taking your boys and girls? If you have a wild boy (tween) who thinks it’s cool to be a rascal, is it better to wait or start early?