Tuesday, 30 January 2018

I hate hypocritical, abusively competitive parents


My daughter participates in competitive dance. I love that she enjoys dancing, but I mostly LOATHE the world of competitive dance. It sexualizes children at a young age, it exposes children to an unduly competitive atmosphere (generated mostly by adults), and worst of all, it is home to some of the worst abusers I have ever observed.In particular, I cannot stand the abusive parents who put on one face to the public, and another to their children. I am talking about the parents who post publicly on Facebook about how proud they are of Child X, who keeps winning 3-foot tall 1st place dance trophies, and are featured on local television, and are "dancing for the cure"...but who I have repeatedly witnessed berate their child (who is winning everything in sight) for not trying hard enough, for not being perfect enough, for not smiling enough, for clearly not taking notes from Choreographer X, and worst of all, for being fat, even while the child has maybe 0.7% body fat, and is dying to eat a granola bar.I shudder to envision the future, in which said child jumps from the balcony of a skyscraper like the girl in Lethal Weapon. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2E1DT8y

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