Watch the performance below.
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Video credit: Rumble
Growing up, kids tend to revolve everything around their mom. Hungry? Mom needs to prepare the food. Sleepy? Mom needs to read a bedtime story. Not feeling well? Mom needs to stay by the bed. It’s only natural to feel this close bond with the person who carried you for nine months and risked her own life bringing you into the world.
But then comes school and with it, friends (at least, that’s the ideal scenario). And with friends come other ideas and other ways of looking at things. Once that happens, it’s important to look cool in front of your friends because it’s part of that desire to be accepted into a peer group.
Slowly, those goodbye kisses just before boarding the school bus started to look “uncool” and sometimes it even gets to the point that the kid doesn’t want to be seen with his mom when in front of friends.
It’s part of growing up and finding one’s own identity but it doesn’t mean that the mom has to like it.
Given that background, you tend to ask yourself, “When was the last time I did something cool with my mom?”
A high school talent show in Charlotte, North Carolina, just demonstrated that one never really is too old to do something cool with one’s mom.
Ginny Jenkins is the guidance counselor for Myers Park High School. The school was hosting a talent show called “History of Dance” and she wanted to participate along with her son Scott.
She said, “I thought it would be fun to do a little dance. I conned my son, who also likes to dance as much as I do, to do it with me. If you asked most of our friends, you know, we’re the dancing, goofy ones in the family for sure.”
But from the clip, which has garnered more than 18 million views on Facebook alone, it’s clear that Scott wasn’t moving like he was conned. In fact, he was enjoying himself!
And props to Ginny, too, that despite not being able to do the more energetic movements was still able to keep pace with her son. It was a heartwarming sight and a unique way to have some mother-and-son bonding.
If you’re fortunate enough to still have your mom with you, do something cool with her. And it doesn’t have to involve dancing!
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