My daughter is in dance and she wants to stay in dance. She's never really expressed much interest or awareness of if outfits are too skimpy or if moves are too sexy, and we haven't at all imposed that on her. She's still young, and so far everything they've had her do hasn't at pushed that envelope.

I have heard stories of other parents of girls my daughter's age demanding that costumes and song selections change over these issues, but I haven't had to. Yet the school's recital featured some 8 year olds, not my daughter, dancing to "all legs no dairy." I would have not allowed my daughter to be in that. If the girls are old enough to understand the meaning of the lyrics and the moves that's one thing, but these were not. To me that defines grooming, teaching them things that their own bodies haven't taught them yet. People forget that like 4 out of 5 victims of child sexual abuse are female. Who knows who might have been in the audience for that show. Why bait predators like that?

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