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to take DS1 (aged 4) to ballet classes with no other boys??

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Tryharder · 29/03/2009 13:29

DP thinks I am!

Brief history: to quote the Abba song, DS1 sang before he could talk and danced before he could walk.. He spends his days making up dance routines and knows the words to all the Madonna/Kylie/Abba/Britney/Girls Aloud songs. He is really, really good - even I can see that and I'm tone deaf with the grace of a baby elephant. So, I enrolled him at a local dance school. Because he's a preschooler, the only class available was ballet and DS1 is the sole boy among all the little girls who of course are dollied up in pink outfits.

The dance teacher raves about DS1 and says he's really good and has genuine talent.

When I mentioned the dance lessons to DP a while back, he huffed and puffed and said he didnt want DS1 to go. But because DP works abroad and isnt living with us for much of the time, I ignored him and enrolled DS1 anyway. Anyway, now DP has found out, is extremely cross and says that DS1 will turn out gay and it will be all my fault.

Now, I couldnt care less if DS1 turns out to be gay or not (and FGS, how could you tell with a 4 yo) but DP is from a country where homosexuality is completely taboo. DP keeps trying to get DS1 interested in football and other more manly pursuits but DS1 thinks football is, I quote "disgusting".

So AIBU? DS1 is a bit put out that he's the only boy in the class and mentions it from time to time buthe goes to the classes quite happily and says he has a good time there.

OP posts:
Flibbertyjibbet · 29/03/2009 23:11

You sound just like my friend a few years back. Her DP acting like the dad in Billy Elliot.
Her son qualified for the world championships in his dancing last year!
If boys take up dancing its because they are really interested in it, therefore they are motivated to try and do well at it... and because there are so many fewer boys dancing than girls, its a lot easier for a boy to go far with it than it is for girls. (Whose mothers mainly take them for lessons from an early age cos its 'cute').

You need to get a copy of the New York City Ballet Workout, phew the men in there they are not cissy dancers they are complete athletes with muscles in places that most men don't have places

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