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[Patsy]

And THAT sums up today's parents. (Yes I'm generalising - but I see that type every day taking the kids to school)

 

[Patsy]

I know what you mean. A girl I used to work with now has a 10 year old daughter. She is in to dancing and her mum is always posting pictures of her posing and dancing,she looks about 14 or 15.

 

[Battiola73]

I think the grossest and in a way quite scary thing is the Dance Mums and child beauty pageants they show on American TV. Kids of 4+ looking, well the only way I can describe it, like tarts and so precocious. And talk about pushy mums. I feel quite scared of what might happen to these kids.

A friend of mine’s granddaughter started to go to dance classes when she was 6. She used to enjoy it. Then it got sold out and the new owner was super competitive, entered them into competitions, very strict with their training and little one used to come home in tears. Worse thing was granddaughter had her hair cut short, well you’d think she’d just committed a murder. Got shouted at, pulled to one side and hair yanked back. (Evidently had to have hair long enough to scrag back so the kids were all clones). All the girds were in tears. Parents complained and threatened to report her. She closed down a few weeks later. Put the granddaughter off dancing.

 

[donna255]

Dance Moms, was just abuse. Those beauty pageants never, thankfully never caught on in the UK

 

[Brissles]

Different world. My mum put me to ballet at 4 years old in the baby class, and when my ankles had strengthened, to tap at 6. The teacher would put shows on at the local theatre and Mum always made sure I had an afternoon nap beforehand. I loved it, the sequin tutus the make up that mum let me sleep in. I'm now 76 and still love sequins - and kept up the tap dancing til a few years ago.

 

[Battiola73]

I used to enjoy ballet and tap when I was a child. Did quite a bit of country dancing too and could even dance round the maypole plaiting the ribbons.

Used to have compulsory dance lessons included in our gym classes at secondary school. Had to do all these airy fairy improvisations to contemporary music. Really couldn’t take it seriously especially when told to imagine we were snowflakes. Like now I was rounder than I’m tall and looked more like a elephant than a snowflake .

 

[Looby Loo]

Different world. My mum put me to ballet at 4 years old in the baby class, and when my ankles had strengthened, to tap at 6. The teacher would put shows on at the local theatre and Mum always made sure I had an afternoon nap beforehand. I loved it, the sequin tutus the make up that mum let me sleep in. I'm now 76 and still love sequins - and kept up the tap dancing til a few years ago.

Aargh, how lovely.

 

[Battiola73]

I always wear tops with sequins to any special occasions. It’s been remarked on that I always wear sparkly earrings. All my earrings have sparkly stones, whether it’s really diamonds, emeralds, Diamonique or Swarovski. In fact I don’t any plain earrings at all. Same with rings. Only thing with no stones I own is a silver cross pendant that I rarely take off.

 

[lynnonthelake]

I always wear tops with sequins to any special occasions. It’s been remarked on that I always wear sparkly earrings. All my earrings have sparkly stones, whether it’s really diamonds, emeralds, Diamonique or Swarovski. In fact I don’t any plain earrings at all. Same with rings. Only thing with no stones I own is a silver cross pendant that I rarely take off.

I absolutely love Sparkly earrings,I don’t do plain in anything

 

[ERICS MUM]

Why do young women want to look like old trouts. With the huge black eye brows and lashes like a paint brush and those huge lips they look ridiculous to me. Natural beauty looks so much better.

Plus the tattoos on wrists and ankles.

 

[Brissles]

The worse look ever is seeing a bride in a gorgeous gown but all you focus on are the arm tattoos on display. You just can't "unsee" them.

 

[Battiola73]

I have same problem with tattoos, can’t stand them. They actually make me feel physically sick,

A while ago I was looking online for a dress to wear to a wedding. I would say that a good 50% I looked at, the models were covered in tattoos, which distracted greatly from seeing the full design of the dress. I got to the stage if they had tattoos I wouldn’t even look at the dress let alone buy it.

Even stopped watching Kuhn Rikon on QVC as BA had them, although I did catch her a couple of weeks back and they weren’t visible apart from a red one round the top of her arm that looked like barbed wire.

 

[ERICS MUM]

Tattoos on men are bad enough but on women they are downright ugly, and IMO make the woman ugly too.

 

[Battiola73]

Always remember being in an outdoor cafe by the seaside. The woman at the next table, who must have been in mid to late 70s, in addition to up both arms had them up both legs interspersed with her varicose veins.

 

[ArticMule]

I love my tattoos