Lately, my husband and I have a sneaking suspicion that strippers and gay men have been sneaking into our home at night and having midnight playdates with Sunny. We try not to let her watch TV too much and the TV she does watch is limited to cartoons, so I have no idea why she’s dancing like a stripper and acting like Ru Paul all of the sudden.
Sunny loves dancing. She takes hip hop and ballet classes and sometimes when close friends or family members come over, music will come on and she’ll just start grooving. I know it’s kind of annoying and obnoxious to sit around in a circle and have everyone watch Sunny dance but we’re her parents, so we obviously find it super cute and funny… UNTIL LATELY. She’s been doing this super awkward thing where she gets on the floor and dances provocatively and her moves look strikingly similar to what you would see at a strip joint (not that I frequent them).
I start frantically clapping my hands together and yelling, “Okay, Sunny get up, GET UP OFF THE FLOOR”, and finally, “Stop that! Don’t dance on the floor anymore.” Of course, my mom gets really upset and later on in the evening says things like, “She should go to a school that has uniforms.” My husband and I aren’t so much worried about it as perplexed, as we have literally no idea how are where she learned anything like this. She is not allowed to go on the computer and there isn’t anything like this on Dora the Explorer, so who is sneaking into my house and teaching my daughter to dance like a stripper?
Also, why they hell is she talking like a gay man?! It’s so weird. When I ask her a question, sometimes she does everything but snaps her fingers at me while saying, “Um, excuse me, Mama, I don’t think so.” She’s like a cross between the gay best friend and an ’80s valley girl. Where in the world is she getting this? Why does she start every sentence with, “Um, like whatever”?
I just want to know who is sneaking into my home and showing her episodes of Sex in The City and Madonna videos from the ’80s and how can I get them to stop.
Each lap dance (lasting the length of one eemterxly short song) will cost him $20, and he will probably have 2 or 3 lap dances in a row. At the end, they may return to the table, continue their chat, and engage in more lap dances later in the evening . ENGAGE IN MORE LAP DANCES LATER THAT EVENING! Another example, I have a friend who enjoys going to gentlemen clubs, and he makes a solid living with the salary he gets. Every time he goes to a gentlemen’s club he ends up finding a entertainer to talk to. Each time he ends up getting their numbers and obtaining a certain type of contact between each other. When he first went to a gentlemen’s club as a rookie he was fooled, because the girl he got wanted him to come back to the gentlemen’s club, have drinks, and BUY MORE LAP DANCES. He was entirely heart broken, because she did not care about him. Instead she just wanted to obtain a substantiated contact in order for him to be a full time customer. Thus, resulting in a bigger pay for her. After that he learned his lesson that each girl he talked to in a gentlemen club, wanted something from him. In the end, these entertainers do not care for you! they care for the size of your wallet. When have you ever seen an industry or company that cares about it’s customers. Oh, you do? give me an example. You might say, what about the deals they give? Yes, that is very true many corporations give deals to customers. However, what does that leave them with? MORE CUSTOMERS. more costumers = bigger profits, made by the company. As you can see from the information given the interaction between a man, and an entertainer is only a business deal like any other we confront in life.
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I actually think children are born with this skill for the sole purpose of embarrassing their parents. My daughter’s totally sheltered and yet is able to turn me six shades of red while she pole dances on one of the stations in line at Disneyland. Awesome.
*Mum’s best friend’s daughter* even. An adult teaching a child to hip thrust would be a bit odd…
I remember dancing to Sex on the Beach when I was a kid (6 or 7) and doing this kind of pumping/hip thrusting move where you lean back on the floor and thrust balancing on one arm then switch arms and thrust some more. I definitely didn’t watch music videos (before there were even more than 4 channels available without paying) or know any strippers but my Mum’s best friend has MTV and she’d learnt it off there and taught me. I cringe remembering now but I didn’t realise the connotations at the time!!
PS. I’m not a stripper or pole dancer or anything sexy now…
Ok, this is hilarious! How old is Sunny? My daughter will be 3 in July and does the EXACT SAME THING! Yesterday she strutted across the floor with a little tray of cookies, she looked like a freaking hooters waitress or a playboy bunny! Then there’s the dancing, I’m pretty sure she hasnt seen flashdance, maybe in a former life, but seriously, its disturbing…and hilarious all at the same time! hahaha. Loved this post…thank god I am not alone!
Louise xo
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Has she ever been exposed to a Rihanna music video by any chance? That can be lethal…
Haha, my nephew has suddenly started adding in crotch grabs to his dances. His comes from a weird obsession with watching LMFAO videos. I don’t think his rock band loving father is very impressed!
This is my four, going on forty, year old! I’m baffled by the sass and grind. She’s in preschool, rarely watches TV and her best friend is her five year old *boy* cousin, so unless he’s Divine reincarnated and teaching her these things, I’m at a complete loss. Must be the water. Good luck to you and your husband.
I can’t be positive, but the other girls in her dancing classes might be exposed to more than Dora. Maybe she’s just imitating other girls she knows imitating other girls they know. Especially if the other girls have older sisters who like to teach them fun dancing! On another note, though, why is her dancing “like a stripper”? Maybe it’s less stripper and more just raunchy, and sexualizing, which no one wants for a child. But “stripper moves” don’t have to be about sex. They don’t have to be about stripping. Have you seen Jenyne Butterfly? That woman is amazing, graceful, and strong and is a beast on the pole.
ugh.. this was hilarious to read…. “okay, sunny get up, GET UP OFF THE FLOOR”. I could almost hear it. Very funny.