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Well not literally.
I chaperoned my son's school dance this evening. Kids in age ranging from 5 to 16 were in attendence.
Sitting on the bleachers alone I had a blast just watching the kids interacting outside of school, in a purely social atmosphere. Big groups of giggling girls on one side and big groups of blushing, grinning boys on the other. Shared whispered secrets behind hidden hands, walking around to check out their latest crush and rarely anyone ever dancing. lol
Music blared from the stage where parent volunteer's DJ'd with the latest hits. As the strobe lights flashed I imaged the young girls dancing directly in front of them were dreaming of being a pop star in the limelight playing and dancing before a large audience. Boy's chasing each other around the gymnasium while sneaking glances to see if any of the girls might be impressed with their running abilities.
Really the only time there were kids on the floor was during the Macarana, I suppose the majority only felt comfortable dancing alone when it involved dance steps for the one person to do. The occasional slow song found sometimes 4 or 5 lone couples actually on the floor. Watching them I wondered if their mothers or fathers had told them the same thing I had told my own son about slow dancing, that there must be at least enough room between he and his partner that a small child could easily walk between them.
After awhile several girls from my son's class walked over to where I happened to be sitting and asked me if it were true if he couldn't dance. Grinning I informed them that yes he actually could dance but is just very bashful about doing so. Immediately they skipped back to where he and his group of friends were sitting.. after a moment of head nodding and mouth movement, his head popped up and looked at me. He shook his head no and half laughed. The girls walked away, still without a partner. lol
As I sat there listening to the music I had a huge urge to get up and start dancing along to the beat. Knowing that this would have been a huge embarrassment to my ten year old, I held myself back... okay truthfully I enjoy teasing him so it was mostly embarrassment that I would have felt. I remembered when I was his age and seeing parents and grandparents at school dances getting out there on the floor, giggling at how silly they looked.. and seeing this group of children reacted when other adults did this.. I decided it was more important to keep my dignity and my cool mom status with them instead. ;-)
I'm dying to go out dancing now though, it's been 8 long years since I have stepped onto a dance floor of any kind. *sigh*
Brief mommy brag - Before the dance began they crowned the Snow Queen and King and my son happened to win. Two trophies and a silly looking crown and he'll be forever immortalized in our town paper in a few weeks.
I chaperoned my son's school dance this evening. Kids in age ranging from 5 to 16 were in attendence.
Sitting on the bleachers alone I had a blast just watching the kids interacting outside of school, in a purely social atmosphere. Big groups of giggling girls on one side and big groups of blushing, grinning boys on the other. Shared whispered secrets behind hidden hands, walking around to check out their latest crush and rarely anyone ever dancing. lol
Music blared from the stage where parent volunteer's DJ'd with the latest hits. As the strobe lights flashed I imaged the young girls dancing directly in front of them were dreaming of being a pop star in the limelight playing and dancing before a large audience. Boy's chasing each other around the gymnasium while sneaking glances to see if any of the girls might be impressed with their running abilities.
Really the only time there were kids on the floor was during the Macarana, I suppose the majority only felt comfortable dancing alone when it involved dance steps for the one person to do. The occasional slow song found sometimes 4 or 5 lone couples actually on the floor. Watching them I wondered if their mothers or fathers had told them the same thing I had told my own son about slow dancing, that there must be at least enough room between he and his partner that a small child could easily walk between them.
After awhile several girls from my son's class walked over to where I happened to be sitting and asked me if it were true if he couldn't dance. Grinning I informed them that yes he actually could dance but is just very bashful about doing so. Immediately they skipped back to where he and his group of friends were sitting.. after a moment of head nodding and mouth movement, his head popped up and looked at me. He shook his head no and half laughed. The girls walked away, still without a partner. lol
As I sat there listening to the music I had a huge urge to get up and start dancing along to the beat. Knowing that this would have been a huge embarrassment to my ten year old, I held myself back... okay truthfully I enjoy teasing him so it was mostly embarrassment that I would have felt. I remembered when I was his age and seeing parents and grandparents at school dances getting out there on the floor, giggling at how silly they looked.. and seeing this group of children reacted when other adults did this.. I decided it was more important to keep my dignity and my cool mom status with them instead. ;-)
I'm dying to go out dancing now though, it's been 8 long years since I have stepped onto a dance floor of any kind. *sigh*
Brief mommy brag - Before the dance began they crowned the Snow Queen and King and my son happened to win. Two trophies and a silly looking crown and he'll be forever immortalized in our town paper in a few weeks.
My 10 year old would absolutely die if I chaparoned anything but an occasional field trip....lol He hasn't been to his first dance yet... probably next year.
