Too many girls....

This was the reaction to the ice show by Kiddo. "More girls," he'd sigh as a bevy of beauties began skating. "Why are there so many girls?"

Here we go.

"There's a boy soloist, he's pretty good," I pointed him out. He was good, great spins! "There's a group of boys."

But sadly, out of a two hour show, there was: One boy soloist. Two boys together. A groupd of ten or so boys, and one uncomfortable looking boy in a group of girls. That's thirteen boys maybe. Fifteen tops.

Kiddo perked up everytime a boy took to the ice, and applauded only the boys. He wants a guy as his private coach, and I said I'd see what I could do.

I emailed DH that night, expressing Kiddo's sadness over the lack of boys, and DH agreed. There is nothing to encourage boys to skate, other than "so the girls can do pairs." Even on the internets, every article bemoaning the lack of males spends half the page saying that girls NEED the boys to do pairs. Kiddo doesn't want to do pairs, and he's said that from day one. Doubtless, he's six. He may well change his mind as he begins to see girls as less of an annoyance and more as nice legs. But for now, there's nothing out there telling him to skate for himself. Nothing but me and dad.

We went to get skates sharpened, and I got him his own skate bag. (Not a Zuca bag, I refuse.) It's black. My other choices were; teal, pink, pink zebra stripe, glitter blue, glitter silver, hot pink and leopard print teal. I got him blade guards. They are black. My other choices were; glitter rainbow, pink, glitter pink, purple, purple glitter, light up rainbow (HA!) and pearlized teal. Did we pick up any skatewear? Not a chance. The walls were all dresses, fitted tees, leggings with hot pink and teal stripes, and sweatshirts emblazoned "SK8TRGURL."

You see my dilemma?

I need a male coach, and I need one now. I need Kiddo to see that not only can boys skate, but boys can tear up the ice in ways girls can't. That he doesn't have to do pairs. Girls can be all pink and glitter, boys can SKATE. In January, had anyone told me that Kiddo would take a crushing fall and GET UP to KEEP SKATING, I would never have believed it. Kiddo quit everything at the drop of a hat, but not this. I don't want him to lose this.

He doesn't want to be in the winter show, but maybe I can get him to work backstage. *Sigh* I jsut go one day at a time.