Today, I took my 5-year-old daughter to the play place at McDonald's but I had to keep her busy, instead of letting her play. A mom was teaching her 3-year-old daughter how to pole dance, using the play place's poles. FML
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Today, my mom publicly pole danced. In a playground. FML
Today, I went to McDonald's and ordered a Happy Meal with a girl's toy. The high school girls behind the counter said I was too old to be served one, and I had to go home and explain to my sick daughter why she didn't get her toy. FML
Today, my child was refusing to leave the playground. I had to pry her, screaming and crying, from the monkey bars. I then realized I had been assaulting someone else's kid. FML
Today, I was babysitting a four-year-old girl, when I came across a toy that sang the Macarena. For fun, I decided to teach her the dance. When she showed her parents, instead of putting her hands on her backside and turning, she decided to bend over and moon them. FML
Today, while at McDonald's, I saw an 8 year-old girl licking a life-size Ronald McDonald sitting on a bench. Being concerned, I told her mother, who then yelled at me for 10 minutes for being a "paedophile" and "being turned on by an 8 year-old girl." FML
Today, I walked outside to find my 3 year-old daughter and her pet fish playing together on the swings. FML
Today, I enjoyed a romantic evening at home with my husband while a babysitter took care of my 5-year-old daughter. After she came home, she told me the sitter let her use her "weird swing." I wasn't too worried, until she said it was indoors, and I realized she was describing a sex swing. FML
Today, I was at the park with my autistic son when I noticed a teenage girl imitating him by flapping her hands and walking on her toes. Fed up with children mocking my son, I went over and sternly lectured the girl's mother. Turns out, her daughter is autistic too and will be in my son's class. FML
Today, I dined and dashed. Upon reaching my car, I realized I had left my seven year-old daughter in the restaurant. FML
Today, I punched an older woman in the face. I only hit her after she grabbed my 4-year-old daughter and told her to, "stop dancing like a whore!" My daughter was so terrified, she peed her pants. FML
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Telefunkish 12
She's stripping her of her future
icnburbbygrl 23
Wow. They are starting them out early
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Comments (115)
Khepre 22
She's lovin' it!
rachelllllb 18
wow!! some parents these days!! why would you teach a child something like that?
TabooSushi 24
Stay Klassy, humans.
metalgearsoldier 6
I don´t see what your problem with poledancing is. It is a sport, that requires a very high amount of self discipline, strength and body control to be done right.
VeganVampyre 26
Sure, but to be teaching it to a three year old? In public?! It may be a good form of exercise but it still has very sexual connotations and that makes it completely inappropriate to be teaching to a child that young, especially in a public place! And on top of that, I think it's pretty strange to be doing any kind of exercise in a restaurant. You wouldn't pull out a yoga mat or barbells and start stretching or weightlifting, either. Although, maybe this mom would. Who knows.
swanheart 35
I find it interesting that all the mums who take their daughter to pole dancing classes and try to defend it by saying its just fun and good exercise never take their male children to these classes. Do their sons not need fun or exercise?
pennyxdreadful 2
Most pole studios do not allow male students.
pennyxdreadful 2
Many pole studios do not allow male students
swanheart 35
Why would that be though? If it's just good exercise?
moon_princess3 10
At my pole studio men are not allowed because women want to workout without worrying about being self conscious about the way they look, or on the other side of it not worrying about being hit on while they're just trying to exercise. Also because in pole, you in fact have to have a lot of skin showing, or else you will not stick to the pole. Having no men makes women feel more comfortable exercising in their minimum clothing necessary for the sport.
FMLusername969 21
Poledancing as a sport..okay. Showing a bunch of men/women your ****** for $1.... not okay.
lil_jimmy 29
That doesn't surprise me, McDonald's is all kinds of classy.
RabbitOfAurora 28
Wow, all of these comments are making me incredibly angry. Not all strippers pole dance and not all pole dancers strip. I myself pole dance just for fun and fitness and I would 110% teach my daughter if I had one because it's fun and requires incredible strength and flexibility as well as dedication. And just an FYI for everyone who's going to say "But they always dress so slutty!" There's a good-ass reason for it and that's because you use your skin to grip the pole. It's a necessity of the sport.
Emmers__27 7
Yup. It seems like a form of gymnastics to me. I wish I had the strength and flexibility it takes. So many comments on here are really judgemental.
DontJudgeBeNice 5
I completely agree, but I'm not sure McDonalds is the place for it. While it is gymnastics you don't teach it in a play area, no more than you would teach a child how to do backflips in a play area.
Khaleesi_D 9
I'll agree with you for most of it, but why teach a 3 year old? Also there's a time and a place for everything and that isn't it.
RabbitOfAurora 28
Having just graduated beginner pole, I can tell you there's literally nothing inappropriate I can think of that would warrant a response like OPs. And as for practicing, there have been plenty of times I've street poled (using a sign pole on the street) or as this mother did, a sliding pole on a childs playground. Like I said, it's a really fun sport so why not mess around with your three year old? There's not many moves you can actually achieve in such a confined space anyway.
abNormal62 23
Could've been worse the fathers of the five-year-old boys could've been teaching their sons where to best tuck the dollar bills....
Stillo 25
This is wrong on so many levels! D:
laden_swallow09 34
Three levels of sun-bleached plastic gerbil maze.
gintwinsmoore 20
I'm "not" loving it!!!!
ChloeMeyers_Xo 16
Why does this not even surprise me to the slightest?