When my sister in law and I first searched for a fun activity for the kids to do while we we’re in San Francisco, we happened upon “Baby Loves Disco” http://babylovesdisco.com. One Saturday a month in cities all over the U.S., the preschooler crowd can groove to the seventies. Right on!
What it is: a once a month dance party aimed at the preschool/kindergarten set. Baby Loves Disco takes place on Saturday afternoons (after nap time and before dinner). It makes its way all across the country: with a concentration on both dance party loving coasts and a sizeable number of dance parties around the Chicago area. For $15 a head (free if your tike isn’t walking yet) you can enjoy an afternoon of beats from the seventies. They provide the music, lights, bubble machine fun and a dance floor. A couple of break out areas included a hoola hoop and face paint area in the balcony of the club. A separate area looked like ‘chill out time” with books and tents to crash in. The otherwise adult club serves healthy snacks (cheese, fruit, veggie finger food) and there are pyramids of juice boxes on the actual bar counter. (We found an actual bartender to make us apple martinis while we watched the kiddies getting down).
Eventually when Madonna’s Holiday came on, I hit the dance floor with the kids too. The greatest thing is finding out interests and abilities you didn’t know your kids had. Diego loved the colored lights and seemed to work the room. Checking out the DJs, the snack table, the cute girls. This had a disturbing genetic DNA moment when I realized that my son definitely inherited his father’s club kid in Hollywood attitude. He took to the place like he was born to be there. My daughter Paloma had a sort of half time beat going , did splits and lots of Vogue looking moves (where did she get that?).
Best of all, after an afternoon of dancing, kids were up for crashing hard after a quick dinner in the hotel. They’re still snoring as I write this. Thanks Baby Loves Disco! Now if I can only find a Baby Loves Goth I’ll be set.
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You can't beat dancing with your kids, a great excuse for guys to hit the floor without the assistance of a cocktail. For all the bad press it gets, the seventies had some great music, though I think Madonna was more eighties, but no matter. Thanks for the hot tip, we'll try to check it out if and when we're near a big city.
Disco has never been my favorite music, but your article makes me want to turn it on and rock out with the little ones. I can imagine the smiles and giggles that would result! Thanks for the creative idea!
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is off the hook. it sounds too good to be true. seriously. i can imagine the four year olds breakin on cardboard to some super sweet off the wall tracks, converse up in the air.
can you imagine ten, twenty years from now, the nineties dances with kid n play, vanilla ice, and all that badness?
still sign me up. i'm never one to walk away from a dance floor.
cracking me up over your wee club kid. he was just watching "the scene." so cool to see their big personalities forming in those little bodies.
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