Danceis an art.
Poms is cheerleading.

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Anonymous wrote:FFS let the kid do what they enjoy. All this nonsense about body types and what not is stupid.

Also Poms and Cheer are not sports, they are activités.

I think that depends where you are. In MCPS, Poms is considered a sport. The Olympics has recognized cheerleading as a sport. For practical purposes, it matters in that activities are for everyone who wants to participate. Both poms and cheer require tryouts, competitions and are subject to academic excellence requirements, unlike activities. At the college level, both poms and cheer are eligible to compete at the Universal Dance Association college nationals.

Still not sports.

They are sports. Why, what does it matter?

You tell me.

DP. It matters because OP and maybe some others are trying to get information and you are spreading misleading and incorrect information.

In some instances poms and cheer are considered sports. For example, the Olympics considers cheer a sport. Schools consider both sports and that means kids who engage and make the team can letter in their sport. They are eligible For athletic awards and participate in activities that are reserved for athletes, such as senior athletes night and end of the year sports banquets. Kids are also subject to tryouts and academic excellence standards to participate.

There are also instances where they are considered dance. For example at the college level teams may be run through the dance department (at least poms, not sure about cheer) and both poms and dance teams may be eligible to participate in the UDA national competitions.

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Anonymous wrote:FFS let the kid do what they enjoy. All this nonsense about body types and what not is stupid.

Also Poms and Cheer are not sports, they are activités.

I think that depends where you are. In MCPS, Poms is considered a sport. The Olympics has recognized cheerleading as a sport. For practical purposes, it matters in that activities are for everyone who wants to participate. Both poms and cheer require tryouts, competitions and are subject to academic excellence requirements, unlike activities. At the college level, both poms and cheer are eligible to compete at the Universal Dance Association college nationals.

Still not sports.

They are sports. Why, what does it matter?

You tell me.

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Anonymous wrote:FFS let the kid do what they enjoy. All this nonsense about body types and what not is stupid.

Also Poms and Cheer are not sports, they are activités.

I think that depends where you are. In MCPS, Poms is considered a sport. The Olympics has recognized cheerleading as a sport. For practical purposes, it matters in that activities are for everyone who wants to participate. Both poms and cheer require tryouts, competitions and are subject to academic excellence requirements, unlike activities. At the college level, both poms and cheer are eligible to compete at the Universal Dance Association college nationals.

Still not sports.

They are sports. Why, what does it matter?

Anonymous wrote:My daughter has actually done all of these except pom. I recommend doing a lot of trial classes, then have her pick a few favorites. If she really enjoys one of them, you can then see if she wants to do it competitively. However, all of those sports you mentioned, she can also participate in non-competitively. Sometimes, just letting a kid enjoy something as a fun activity keeps them loving it for a long time!

Ballet is not a sport. It’s physical and these dancers are stronger than most athletes, they work hard to make it look effortless but it’s not. It’s a beautiful art.

My daughter has actually done all of these except pom. I recommend doing a lot of trial classes, then have her pick a few favorites. If she really enjoys one of them, you can then see if she wants to do it competitively. However, all of those sports you mentioned, she can also participate in non-competitively. Sometimes, just letting a kid enjoy something as a fun activity keeps them loving it for a long time!

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Anonymous wrote:FFS let the kid do what they enjoy. All this nonsense about body types and what not is stupid.

Also Poms and Cheer are not sports, they are activités.

I think that depends where you are. In MCPS, Poms is considered a sport. The Olympics has recognized cheerleading as a sport. For practical purposes, it matters in that activities are for everyone who wants to participate. Both poms and cheer require tryouts, competitions and are subject to academic excellence requirements, unlike activities. At the college level, both poms and cheer are eligible to compete at the Universal Dance Association college nationals.

Still not sports.

Anonymous wrote:FFS let the kid do what they enjoy. All this nonsense about body types and what not is stupid.

Also Poms and Cheer are not sports, they are activités.

I think that depends where you are. In MCPS, Poms is considered a sport. The Olympics has recognized cheerleading as a sport. For practical purposes, it matters in that activities are for everyone who wants to participate. Both poms and cheer require tryouts, competitions and are subject to academic excellence requirements, unlike activities. At the college level, both poms and cheer are eligible to compete at the Universal Dance Association college nationals.

Anonymous wrote:FFS let the kid do what they enjoy. All this nonsense about body types and what not is stupid.

Also Poms and Cheer are not sports, they are activités.

Correction:

Misogynistic activities.

FFS let the kid do what they enjoy. All this nonsense about body types and what not is stupid.

Also Poms and Cheer are not sports, they are activités.

I saw Native American girls and African American girls performing Irish dance out west.

Ballet is a great foundation for any other type of dance. Please ignore the posters claiming the culture is toxic etc. There are crazy cultures at the high levels of any youth activity but your daughter is young. My own daughters love ballet, they attend a local studio that emphasizes ballet for recreation, not pre-professional training, and they participate in a few fairly low-key performances a year.
Irish dance -- they tried it, it was fun, but Irish is its own universe that can revolve around the competition -- i.e. feis -- circuit, and we found it was difficult to do much of it just at the recreational level.

Anonymous wrote:Irish dancers ARE usually skinny and tall!

I agree that age 7 is perfect for experimenting. If I were you, I'd find a local (non-competitive or lite competitive) dance school where she could do ballet and jazz, or hip hop and jazz. Ballet is the best foundation, but the most "serious." If you had enough time in your week, and enough desire, tack on Irish. Try this for a year and see what she's liking.

My daughter was a mediocre dancer, but found that she loved the acro skills in her jazz class. So she picked up gymnastics and had a good run with that -- wound up competing for a few years, though she was technically "late" to the sport.

While many Irish dancers are skinny and tall, you certainly don’t need to be. My daughter is neither. I love the community at her school bc it emphasizes anyone can do Irish dance and doesn’t press competition. Also love that there are no mirrors and no skin tight clothes so she doesn’t spend her time staring at and feeling bad about her body.

If ballet is in the mix, I'd start that young. You can branch into other dance types like tap and contemporary with that as a base skill. My DD loved acro but it was really a substitute for gymnastics. Gymnastics is a good sport to complement diving if that is something she might like in the future.

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Anonymous[b wrote:]If you haven't noticed most men dont dance anymore.[/b] I think these are activities that women excel in that men used to participate in in order to woo women. They cater to women's skills. So no I dont think they are misogynistic. I think they are activities that flatter women.

Are you saying the only activities we should do is to please a man????

The opposite. Women enjoy these activities more. Men do them to please women.

You’re not a dancer are you. That’s not accurate. At all.