Would you let your children become cheerleaders?

[Ikari]

So would you let them? I think it is a great activity for building teamwork and athletic skill.

No, we focus on intellectual pursuit instead of vapid popularity contests.

 

[Winchester]

As long as they are not cheerleading for Trump or Hillary.

:lol:

 

[Nilly]

No, we focus on intellectual pursuit instead of vapid popularity contests.

Yep because the two are totally mutually exclusive.

 

[Ikari]

Yep because the two are totally mutually exclusive.

Typically

 

[Absentglare]

"Family is forever my son, i am proud you cast your own stone."

 

[Palliative]

Does the world need young women with Minnie Mouse bows?

 

[JumpinJack]

So would you let them? I think it is a great activity for building teamwork and athletic skill.

Sure. But it's not about building teamwork & athletic skill. It's about popularity, being confidant, and having a lot of dates, as well as getting an in with the IN crowd & the quarterback. Which has its perks. So why not.

It's also good at keeping physically fit, which benefits everyone throughout life.

 

[Aunt Spiker]

So would you let them? I think it is a great activity for building teamwork and athletic skill.

When they're little it's just innocent fun . . . but when they get older it's problematic. Not because of the dangers of the sport, but because of the ****ty, self-absorbed attitudes of the cheerleaders themselves. Quite a few of them are just rotten goods, attitudes so thick it turns their eyes brown.

So - no. If my daughter wants to be involved in an organized sport of some sort it'll have to be one that doesn't attract those types of issues. At present, she's all about softball.

 

[RetiredUSN]

Gymnastics is every bit as dangerous as being a cheerleader, and both activities have similar injury rates.