Are you "Anxious Parents"?

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Are you "Anxious Parents"?
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Wed, 11-15-2006 - 8:24am

Today's MSN News features this article

Sabina

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Tue, 11-21-2006 - 8:48pm
The post I replied to said that there are articles about it WRT cheerleading, but not gymnastics or ballet. I was addressing the reason (IMO) that there were no articles.
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Tue, 11-21-2006 - 8:53pm
Yes, I see that now, but it still makes no sense to me.

Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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Tue, 11-21-2006 - 9:45pm
I'm hoping she will be ready by 11 in middle school because I would rather have her walk home than take a bus to after-care.
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Tue, 11-21-2006 - 10:23pm

I must have missed that post.

Anyways, I don't really judge whether something exists or not by the existance or non existance of a Google entry. With my own two eyes, I have seen just as much glitter, skin, and makeup in a gymnastics meet or a ballet recital (minors, not professionals, to be clear) as I have in a cheerleading competition. Perhaps I am odd in that I don't exactly see what the big deal is, since I have never perceived any sexualization either way. I acknowledge (and have, several times over, as have other posters) that it happens sometimes. I would not feel comfortable saying it happens often. Especially based on one article. I would venture to guess that similar to the 5yos m24g has seen, it is the parents that are mostly to blame.

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Tue, 11-21-2006 - 10:43pm

I really hate hearing things like that.

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Wed, 11-22-2006 - 10:57am
why isn't this thread closed? it's completeley onto a different subject and impossible to follow at 1100 posts!
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Wed, 11-22-2006 - 10:58am

I'm not following why it would be different, though.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 11-22-2006 - 11:01am

Even if my sense of humor was intact, I still can't imagine what I would find funny about cheerleading scholarships or funny about someone needing one-on-one help

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 11-22-2006 - 11:07am

<<I think we can agree that most 5yo's aren't in much danger of sexual objectification, at least not in cheerleading.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 11-22-2006 - 11:10am

Again, how does

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