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Hey, you guys are listening to the Tudor Dixon podcast.

I'm Tudor Dixon, and as you know, if you've been listening, you know I have four daughters.

So I've been to plenty of children's dance recitals.

And you probably have also been to a dance recital or a competition at some point.

But has it ever felt a little

off to you? Because I actually have had this experience where we've seen mostly it's like

the middle school and the high school students that are performing a dance that seems, well,

not, for lack of a better term, over-sexualized. And I thought, like, maybe I'm imagining this,

but I remember at the time my girls,

so I was sitting there with my husband,

and he looked at the dances that were being performed on the stage,

and he goes, I feel uncomfortable.

Like, I feel like I shouldn't be here.

And that was a moment where

dance class had always felt like a place where it was like mom and daughters. And then

it's, I realized in that moment, it should not be a place where when the girls are dancing in

front of the dads, it's uncomfortable. So I thought maybe I was alone in this, but I recently

heard about a woman who is kind of fighting that fight of over sexualizing our kids, and I thought

it was so important for you to hear. So I want to bring Mary Bodden in to join us today.

She's not only a dance educator, but she's an outspoken advocate for kids.

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