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About my 4yo singing...

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DoingTheSwanThing · 02/07/2013 18:13

... Hey, sexy lady?

Just feels wrong - apparently at school they play on Wii Dance when it's too wet to play outside.

I know he's going to pick up far worse, but I'm just not comfortable that school are facilitating! Go on, tell me I'm being all PFB again :-/

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StuntGirl · 02/07/2013 18:16

I don't like it either, but I'm sure millions of people will come on and tell us to lighten up and listening to Frankie Goes To Hollywood did them no harm! Perhaps mention to the school you find it inappropriate for his age group and could they choose some different songs next time.

Console yourself with the fact he doesn't know what he's singing at least.

jinglebitch · 02/07/2013 18:18

My dd,also 4, sings "Hey,such a lady". I haven't corrected her Wink YANBU.

GoingUpInTheWorld · 02/07/2013 18:20

When i was around 7-8 years old, the song from the 90s "im horny, horny, horny, horny etc" was really popular and i kept singing it.

My aunt did ask if i knew what it meant. Obviously i had no idea, she just told me it means you feel sexy. No one told me to stop singing it etc

superbagpuss · 02/07/2013 18:22

is that from gangham song? I have taught my DT also 4 to not like that song as I hate small children singing lyrics that are none appropriate.

I know I will have to relax some when they start school

RiotsNotDiets · 02/07/2013 18:23

Urgh I remember going to a birthday party when I was 8/9 and all the girls lining up into a conga line, singing along and thrusting to 'I'm horny'. Blush

intheshed · 02/07/2013 18:23

5yo DD and all her friends think it's "sixty lady" Grin

I'm not that keen but hopefully some other hideous cheesy novelty record will replace it this summer!

PoppyWearer · 02/07/2013 18:26

My 5yo gets it wrong too, and I haven't corrected her either!

Theselittlelightsofmine · 02/07/2013 18:31

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DeWe · 02/07/2013 18:34

Ds (year 1) told me yesterday that his teacher "spoke to him about a little sex"
After some discussion I found he meant a short time-a few sec(ond)s.

PoppyWearer · 02/07/2013 18:38

My DD told me very proudly in a loud whisper yesterday that "peanut means willy, Mummy". Grin

gallifrey · 02/07/2013 18:41

my dd went to a dance club and she always came home singing I kissed a girl and I liked it, she was 5...

Branleuse · 02/07/2013 18:41

gangnam style

lets all just pray this song goes away really soon

WilsonFrickett · 02/07/2013 18:42

Ds7 was enlightening us about Biff, Chip, Kipper and their author Roddy Cunt yesterday Hmm

I heard a cm very loudly singing 'pretty lady' a while back, which I very much approved of. I think it's one of these things that does no real harm to DCs, but it doesnt stop me hating it. Mind you, I don't even let my DS say shut up or stupid though... YANBU.

HorryIsUpduffed · 02/07/2013 18:52

At four mine was adamant it was "hey sixty eighty". He still is. I have not interfered.

I remember cringing into the floor when a teacher at my primary school disco asked me what the words were to a particular song. Since the chorus ran "I wanna sex you up, I wanna hold you down" I am now Hmm .

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DoingTheSwanThing · 02/07/2013 19:49

Phew. Glad it's not just me! Might have a quiet word with the TA in the morning... Whilst trying not to sound like a 28-year-old prude :-/
No idea what the actual song is, (?thankfully) his enunciation isn't clear on anything else! Clearly though from some of the examples we've got off lightly thus far Shock

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DangerousDorothy · 02/07/2013 19:54

DS1 who is 4 sings "sixy waver" and we haven't corrected him either.

plainjaney · 02/07/2013 20:08

Can recall DD when she was about 8 or 9 singing along to Panic! At The Disco's 'I write sins not tragedies'. It was some time before I corrected her that the 'grooms bride is a whore' not the horse she had been singing. She had apparently wondered why he was marrying a horse....

I had a self censoring child lmao

WorraLiberty · 02/07/2013 20:13

When my eldest DS was in Junior school, I remember cringing at all the little girls dancing at the school disco and singing "I wanna have sex on the beach"...complete with pelvic thrusting!

badtime · 02/07/2013 20:13

Doing, most of the song is in Korean, so any other lyrics your son may be singing are probably a product of his imagination (or he has a spectacular gift for languages).

IfIonlyhadsomesleep · 02/07/2013 20:18

I felt like that initially, but it's really like fighting back the tide. I agree that in school on a regular basis might not be the best but at the odd disco it might be fine. A juicy reaction from a parent is, however, only likely to increase its allure and mystique!

lastnightiwenttomanderleyagain · 02/07/2013 21:31

I thought I was young...until I read about people being 8 or 9 when 'horny' came out...!

gintastic · 02/07/2013 21:39

I remember when Right Said Fred did "I'm Too Sexy" and my guide leader (I was 12 maybe?) going absolutely bat shit crazy when we were all singing it on a coach trip to Granada Studios :-) and the Spitting Image song as well!

Wahla · 03/07/2013 14:16

I bloody hate that song but I've more or less trained mine to sing "sweetie baby" instead.

wigglesrock · 03/07/2013 14:59

My sister did a fabulous version of "Like a Virgin" when she was about 7/8 to an extended family gathering.

SalaciousBCrumb · 03/07/2013 15:02

My DD sings "Sexy Layla" (name of one of her friends, a 5yo) which is just wrong. I told her it wasn't a nice thing to sing, the word sexy just sounded so wrong coming out of her mouth (and particularly in relation to another five year old) and wish I'd come up with some of these alternatives instead. Now she has decided to just go "Hey. mmmmm lady" instead, so she sounds like the radio edit.