If you have a boyish boy, reserved and not into dancing, where did they learn how to dabcecso that they could join in in school parties?

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Just that.

I spent at least a minute or two googling dabcecso

I think you are more bothered about this than him.

If he's at a disco when he's 15 he won't want you there and especially not to sit on your lap 😄. He will do whatever it is his mates are doing. Which for boys is usually shuffling around or jumping and waving arms wildly.

Or standing at the edge of the dance floor looking brooding and mysterious (to other 15 year old girls.. The more trained eye might call it "bored" 😉)

I was a girl, didn't go to dance lessons, but still learned the dance moves to Buck's Fizz, Agado, the chicken song etc from watching friends or playing back VHS tapes.

Kids these days have YouTube. I'm always amazed at what kids have taught themselves from YouTube; from dances to solving rubix cubes to parkour.

they do do agadoo

DCs learned Scottish country dancing at primary and secondary - which was handy because they taught me enough to manage the company dinner dances which invariably included a ceilidh.

As for disco - I think it was the girls that danced and the boys sat around the edge, or pogoed if something bouncy came on and the sugar had kicked in.

I am bothered. I want him to choose to join in.

Or not

Do 'boyish boys' need to know the moves to Agadoo??

Everyone does! but given that the entire song actually tells you the moves it takes about 2 minutes to learn, I imagine the boyish boys will learn it the same way as the girlish boys and the boyish girls and the girlish girls, and all the normal kids, by simply watching other people do it...

You could teach him the moves to Agadoo...? Is that not the obvious answer....

*I want him to choose to join in...

.... Or not*

Well he will choose one or the other. He will join in, or he will not.

How old is he? Is he's sitting on your lap at a school party I'd guess pretty young. Just leave him be. Don't force him into situations he's not comfortable in yet. He'll eventually find his way. Most kids do. He might never join in for Agadoo, or join a Congo line but it is not actually necessary for survival.

He'll be fine.

Did he do a bad murder?

He needs to dab, floss and do that loser dance thing. And possibly the cha cha slide

Superman is still the top song for embarassing party dancing. At my cousins 16th a few years ago all the kids knew it, I was amazed.

Are you serious? No one 'learns' how to dance at a disco.

Thank you.

I know he'll be fine. He's already more than fine.

If he was unsure with any other skill j would try and help him. That's all.

I guess I'm a boyish 32 year old woman as I've never learnt dabesco

Kids just pick stuff up! You dont teach them informal school disco stuff. They just kind of pick it up..
I never taught my lads any dancing as I'm not a dancer and was astounded to go to someone's 50th a few years ago and see Ds1 in the middle of the dance floor with load of girls doing some dance craze and loving being the centre of attention! He was about 16 then!!
Same when peter Kay's version if 500 miles was out about 11 years ago. He was leaving primary school and it was the end if year fair and him and all the lads in his class where ined up on tables dancing along.
Kids just join in and have fun!

Fuckin AGADO!!

Had to google agadoo lol. I also read it as how to dab, yeah but both how to dab and dance on youtube. To be fair we just used to dance at parties and copy the moves from music videos and whatever trend was popular and do whatever felt natural to the music that was playing?

(Does anyone actually do the agadoo?)

Op Google lessons on doing the running man.

That is great if done well plus watching them try to learn at home is vvv funny

Who thought you how to "Agadoo", OP?

At the disco party my 5 year old went to today had Gangham Style, the Conga and the Can can (as well as general dancing to Taylor Swift, Little Mix etc). There were more girls than boys there, the girls danced and the boys ran around.

My DD came home from school and taught me the Macarena just the other day. I’m in my thirties and didn’t know it. I have no clue how it arose in conversation at school.

What about that 00s one - Sliiiiide to the left, Criss cross! Everybody clap your hands (etc)

Dances of my school disco era - Macarena and Saturday Night :o I do remember doing Agadoo - but more at birthday parties and weddings ie things that parents/old people were involved in :o

My p3 gym teacher taught me Agadoo.