calling all ponces - whast the MOST poncey activity you ahev ever heard of a kid doing

[CodHun]

i ll suggest my kdis golf lesosn before any other bugger does..

Rofl at this whole thread!!

Scorpio - I wanted to be a majorette too! No hand-eye co-ordination tho so would have been rubbish at it.

I'm clearly not a ponce - while I've been reading this dd has emptied her toy box and is now sitting in a heap of stuffed animals and plastic things that go beep!

I forgot. DD1 used to do yoga when she was three. We lived in a poncey bit of south London then.

Love this thread!

DS1 will be starting a primary school in September which plays lacrosse. I appreciate that this may be totally mainstream for lots of people but completely unheard of where I grew up. Only came across it in school stories so it seems really weird to me that my child will do it.

I know some under fives who have tennis lessons. Is that poncey?

DS2 (just turned 3) does baby yoga. He loves it.

A lot of people think they're giving their kids a head start by trying to get them involved in some intense sports like tennis before they're school-aged.

This has the potential to set them up for some SERIOUS injuries, tbh, because little bodies aren't made to be doing a lot of stuff like that at that age.

If it's laid-back and fun, it's probably fun.

But I knew quite a few girls, for example, who went to ballet schools that put them en pointe WAY too young - you should really be about 13 or older - and I'm telling you, their feet suffered some serious damage.

Lacrosse! I thought that was a game made up by Enid Blyton. How spiffing. Does she have to have one of the netty things?
Round here all the under-fives have tennis lessons (except mine).

I was taken to a special gifted children's centre on Saturday mornings as a kid -'stremely poncetastic (lord knows what happened to me...) Only remember the other kids being very wierd and otherworldly - all looking spookily like 1970's Harry Potters

did cookery
brass rubbings
'fun' maths - how to escape from mazes and the like
archery
can't remember what else

Get this - just asked dd if she would like to learn french sometime (she's 3). She said no. So I asked her what she would like to learn.

"Japanese".

So she is a ponce.

"So" says the cookery teacher "Can any of you tell me where meat comes from?"
The children come up with the usual answers, cows, sheep, pigs, until one poncetastic child, aged 6 replies "My mother is rather fond of lobster and caviar. The best stuff comes from sturgeon"

Fits of laughter.

Christmas 2 years ago my son walked into my parents utility room at the tender age of 3 and spotted 7 dead grouse ready for plucking and said, "mummy, how did these dead birds get here?" Remembering what my friend said about her son thinking meat came out of the animal wrapped in cellophane, I seized the opportunity to educate on erm, the killing of animals for food (NOT SMART)and the plucking of birds and my son has since had a profound fear of my parents basement, and guns.

Anyway I am rambling.

My son goes to mandarin chinese afterschool club, dont think it is poncy, i am not a very pushy mum, but will look for tennis lessons as he is totally not into football.

oh look I think I had a totally poncetastic childhood now

I did
maypole dancing
brass rubbing
country dancing
lacrosse
riding
haikus
piano
recorder
clarinet
callisthenics or whatever they're called

loads more I'm sure

Actually, is a utility room filled with grouse (hunted by family) poncy?

LOL at folk who think hunting is poncey!

Where I come from, plenty of people live off their land in such a way because they can't afford to eat otherwise!

Lacrosse - played in many state primary schools in Cheshire and thereabout. Not at all poncey - especially the men's game

Move over you ponce small-timers. Get us:

Speech & Drama lessons (lol - ending up in a verse speaking PERFORMANCE festival. Some children there were wearing boaters fgs. Oh the poncy joy).

Fencing. ( I think this is the ponciest sport available to children and that's why ds1 does it).

Chess tournaments are pretty poncy aren't they?

Also Country Dancing. lol.

DS2's class tutor at secondary school (local comprehensive) used some tutor time every day to do yoga. Didn't cost me a penny. Amusing to think of spotty 14-15 year old lads doing yoga.

medieval cookery

HUNDRED your kdsi are alwasy at festivals
od they do conferences too\ wioht gala dinners?

A woman I know is teaching her 4yr old ds to play chess and is going to enrol him in a chess club for 10+ in September.

Totally poncetastic I reckon (never mind blardy boring)

shushes and whooses whossh away

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sailuing very strong entry

Oh no, chess not boring, chess v' good. Poncey maybe, but not boring. Especially good for boys, what with their mathematical brains and all. Makes a change from just whacking a ball around, aimlessly.

wankers

Mind you, 4 year old in club for 10+ - now that is ponce-mungus.