Growing up, I can remember doing cheers on the blacktop at school with all my friends. It was an everyday activity for us. We had probably 20 to 30 cheers and dances that we would do and we had so much fun. I was watching the news just recently and saw a story about how a six year old was removed from her cheerleading squad because her mother felt one cheer was inappropriate. The mother did not approve of three lines in the cheer which stated “my back hurts, my skirts to tight, my booty is shaking left to right.” The mother of this little girl went straight to the news about her daughter’s cheerleading squad. Her goal was to have the squad remove this cheer from the list, but instead the squad suspended the little girl from cheering for the rest of the season. When I saw this story on the news, I could see the disappointment in the little girls face. She is a six year old who loves cheering and now she can not cheer. It is not as if a young cheerleading squad is trying to be racy and say inappropriate things, at their age it is cute because you can see how excited they are about cheering in general. I can remember back in grade school doing that same cheer, and never thinking anything of it. We were just innocent kids doing something we loved. It is amazing to me the way some parents react to situations.
Check out this website to see the full news story:
http://news.yahoo.com/video/entertainment-15749636/mom-complains-about-racy-cheer-21949860
Check out this website to see the full news story:
http://news.yahoo.com/video/entertainment-15749636/mom-complains-about-racy-cheer-21949860
I agree with you Jamie. Parents over react a lot more these days then they did when we were kids. The cheer that the cheerleading squad was using, back at my high school they used that cheer as an energizer at a anti-drug event that the school puts on every year. We used that cheer to get kids excited, and to make them laugh, and it worked.
ReplyDeleteIf that parent is already throwing a fit over that cheer, just wait until her daughter moves into a higher age group of cheer leaders. That cheer is going to seem like nothing.
I think that the parents should focus on the smile on their kids face rather then the content of their activity.