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To find 5yr olds singing "Sexy ladies" quite disturbing?!

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OneDayAtATime0 · 08/05/2015 11:18

DS this morning started doing this silly dance and tune that the boys in his class do with different words but this morning it was "sexy ladies".. was quite shocked apparently this other boy with a history taught them it.

I told him he shouldn't say that and it's a grown up word but not sure if i'm over-reacting to be pretty shocked by this.

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ClarasZoo · 08/05/2015 16:36

My five year olds sort of sing it to me and accidentally change the words to "sixty lady" which, in my case, is sadly bordering on more accurate than "sexy".

OneDayAtATime0 · 08/05/2015 17:44

lovestodazzle that was put in the context of this boy has a history of behaving innapropriately with my son.. not playground rumours or his home life or anything like that.

I wasn't actually thinking about it in terms of sexualisation of kids (although i think that is an issue) i was actually most worried about his perception of women, i don't want him at 5 to associate describing women's attributes in terms of sexiness and looks! i'm overthinking it aren't I Hmm

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OneDayAtATime0 · 08/05/2015 17:49

*also just to stress he wasn't singing gangnam style! just sexy ladies repeatedly whilst humming and dancing!

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StillProcrastinating · 08/05/2015 18:00

Mine know that "sexy" is an adult word, and they are not to use it. But they have no idea what it means. They are young enough not to question this! I tell them to sing "silly lady" if they must, but am going to tell them "chips and gravy" next time. They'll love that.

I just don't like to hear words like that from them, and at the moment they are young enough to listen to me and not do it!

drinkscabinet · 08/05/2015 18:01

YANBU. I don't allow the kids to sing Gangnam style, they know Mummy doesn't like the song but I've not said why, they don't say the words properly so don't understand what it means but i don't want to hear them sing it.

We have a selection of adult friendly kids music on CDs for the car (folky stuff I can cope with like Laura Viers or Elizabeth Mitchell or Woody Guthrie and quite a bit of TMBG's kids CDs) and have a child friendly playlist on the ipod with songs with approved lyrics (we went through our own favourites from our vast collection and weeded out the sexy stuff).

I really dislike the early sexualisation of children, I was at a 6 year old birthday party and the DJ played 'Blurred Line'. How anyone could think that ws appropriate is beyond me, they played lots of other stuff that was fine (What does the Fox say etc) so I hope that slipping through was just an oversight.

IFinishedTheBiscuits · 08/05/2015 18:02

I don't mind 'sexy ladies' but draw the line at Anaconda and have put in a request that they don't play it at my son's school disco this evening.
My brother does discos and recently did one for an 11 year old where her mum requested no explicit lyrics and then gave Anaconda as one of her daughter's song choices... it's not a song about wildlife!!

twinkletoedelephant · 08/05/2015 18:17

D's has ASD he was taught this song in the playground and sings it loud when he is stressed or nervous... He dosnt know what it means... He just know all the other boys laugh :-(

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