Boys - Why do they do handstands on the dance floor?

[Swedes]

Girls dance and boys do handstands. What's it all about?

IME boys also slide on their knees and slick back their hair with water from the toilet sinks.

do they do handstands?

I thought the girls did cartwheels and the boys jump up and down (rather than dancing).

ds has started doing handstands everywhere we go.

We're walking up and down the market, like you do, the we realise ds is no longer with us. Look around and he's upside down on the floor.

Old ladies are tutting because they can't get past him.

Old men are smiling indulgently

Arthursmum - Oh yes. That sliding on the knees. And yes to water in the hair.

My ds jumps up every availiable wall. Why?

Better than doing murder...on the dance floor.

I have never been able to do handstands. I can put my foot in my mouth though.

Ds 5 yo does press ups and a pointing to the floor move with jiggy shoulders. He is also a break dancer and urban runner. He is also excrutiatingly embarrassing and deadly serious about this and uses water to make his hair spikey. Dd is so human by comparison

billy - has he got a Spiderman thing going on?

But girls do proper dancing - often synchronised. Boys go all silly and hyper - even the sensible ones.

My DP still dances like a student - perhaps he's surpressing the urge to handstand.

FranSanDisco - Oh yes, I'd forgotten about press-ups.

Thanks swede no, no spiderman things here. ds may get into free running though. Lots of trips to casualty.ds won't dance at all unless its ballet using dd's ballet dvd!

Gota go to practice handstands and press ups.

billybass - Don't forget to spike your hair with water.

Oh I love this thread, it so reminds me of school discos! What the hell is with the water slicked hair? I forgot all about the handstands but I do vaguely remember even the shy sensible boys doing it, whilst all us girlies were dancing in a long line to 'Saturday Night' with over tonged, frizzy hair and frosted lipstick! Arrrgh how embaressing!

I remember slow dancing with someone at a school disco, aged about 8, and he was eating a bag of crisps behind my back. Nice.

Arthursmum - Were the crisps pickled onion flavour?

I dunno, but I'm relieved when ds2 opts for handstands. His other favoured moves consist of gyrating his hips and thrusting

Swedes - yes I think they were, Monster Munch or the 10p Space Raiders one.

arthursmum - classy!

DS has just learnt to wiggle his bum, before that he wiggled his whole body not that he would use that move, he prefers to do a sort of karate stance instead.

There's nothing like brushing whiffy crumbs out of your crimped hair...

lol at this thread

They race around the hall like a pack of hounds/pogo on the spot/collide at frightening speeds/shout loudly/collapse the congo line