To not want my child encouraged to sing about sexy ladies

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School Easter party, which was a loud disco, for 4-7 year olds.

They played that god awful Gangnam style song and kept stopping it to encourage kids to shout 'ooo sexy lady'

I mean really?

It reminded me of the eighties, adults thinking they know what kids want.

I do agree that it's crass to get little kids to shout out sexy ladies, I will give you that. But it was crass getting kids to shout out the rude bits in songs when we were kids too. I wouldn't necessarily like it, but I know I liked that taboo aspect of songs with naughty words in when I was little too, even though I had no idea what any of it meant.

Oh calm down dear.

Awful song, my DS is always singing it when not just rabbiting on about sexy this and sexy that, sex, sexy, your sex, your sexy... I try to ignore it and hope it will go away. I try to play other repetitive cheesy songs to interest him but still can't shake it off.

I was a bit on holiday when another mother (whose DS was also repetitively singing Gangnam Style) told my DS off for saying 'sex' and said it was a rude word . I didn't think sex was a rude word just that DS saying sex and sexy over and over was inappropriate and irritating. I think it is partly because 'the S word' is not allowed at school so he feels the need to use it elsewhere.

You're right, it's horrid. But, I think you're fighting a losing battle. IMO you / we just have to grin and bear it .

OP I think our children go to the same school

When we were their age it was "Relax, don't do it"

I seen primary school discos where they had Madonna "like a virgin"

I don't think that young children think too much about lyrics

Yeah agree, I was taken aback when it was blasted out by horrid looking dj at kids party for 5 year olds I hadn't heard of it before and didn't get it.

But then it also made me feel v old, and not a trendy young mum....
I am not really in touch with contemporary music...
Anyway she wanted to listen to it at home so got it up on u tube.... oh dear

Yes I too though was a like a virgin singer, I am sure my poor mother at that one.

I remember getting my parents to play Sink the Pink by ACDC on the car radio.

I wince with embarassment when I think of it.

I grew up in the 90's. loads of dodgy stuff in the 90's! Do I win?

Seriously though OP, YANBU, I don't like it either, unfortunately I think that these days they have a little bit more knowledge about what it is they're singing that we all did as youngsters though!

oh, do calm down.

i'm 24 and when i was growing up, it was "you and me baby ain't nothing but mammal, so let's do it like they do on the discovery channel", pretty much any song by shaggy, the vengaboys (boom boom boom boom, i want you in my room etc.) and i never knew what any of it meant, it was just catchy music to us.

I remember babysitting as a teenager and being rather alarmed when my four year old charge started singing 'I want sex on a beach, come on everybody' It wasn't cute, it was creepy. I don't blame you at all, yanbu.

I remember Relax.. And Roxanne "you don't have to put on the red light, walk the streets for money, you don't care if it's wrong or right.." Not a clue what they were on about aged 5.

My favourite at that age was "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight" - never occurred to me to wonder what I might want a man at that time for!

I agree OP!! My 5 year old DD loves Gangnam style, her and her little chums dance and sing it all the time. I hate with a passion hearing her sing the sexy lady bit, so we told her it was a cheeky word that's ok in a song but not to be repeated. Instead, we told her to sing "special lady" instead. Whether she does that at school I don't know, but at home she does. Along with a stern reprimand aimed at me that I have "not to sing the cheeky word, mummy"

DD is six and has done streetdance for three years.Their favourite dance at the minute has the lines "I got passion in my pants and I aint afraid to show it,Im sexy and I know it " She sings it loudly and has absolutely no idea what any of it means! All the kids do it, with street dance its hard to not let them hear this sort of song.Have learnt not to be precious about it.

left your knickers in your boyfriends car well you were changing for ballet weren't you!

Does anybody remember when Not the Nine O'clcok news did "Kinda Lingers", i just feel so sorry for the dinner ladies in our primary school play ground when we all greeted each other with "Kinda lingers" and waggled our tongues out. None of us had any idea

Kids love singing about sexy ladies, eating Haribo and doing knee skids.

This is because they don't know what's good for them.

'Knee Skids'. I forgot about those. To be done at boring family dos at the village hall.

I walked into DS's classroom at home time to find 4 lads dancing and singing 'sexy laaaddyyy'. I did wonder why on earth 7 year olds had been exposed to this kind of thing, I suppose I'm old fashioned

oddboots dont forget that if she cries im gonna push it push it some more, a la la la la long

4-7 year olds?
YANBU
This is not acceptable behaviour on the school's part.
You should write a letter of complaint to the school.
Until they do the 'living and growing' topic at secondary school this should not be encouraged, and even then this is a really stupid thing to do. By that time everyone will have forgotten about gangnam style.

Although gangnam style is a great disco track.

Pffft, I remember when I was seven and I found my mums old records. All I did was screech "WHEN I THINK ABOUT YOU I TOUCH MYSEEEEELF!"

Pffft, I remember when I was seven and I found my mums old records. All I did was screech "WHEN I THINK ABOUT YOU I TOUCH MYSEEEEELF!"

I properly LOLed at this!