• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    My six-year-old dances when they hear a song they like. They’re aware of money but not concerned about it since they don’t have any bills; they only care about it for occasionally buying a toy for themself. No one is paying them to dance.

    I love seeing them dance and don’t hesitate at all to tell them so. There’s such unbridled joy in it. Skill isn’t even a concern - they’re just moving the way their body wants to in response to the music and I think that’s beautiful.

    One of my favorite parts of the whole thing is that sometimes they’ll ask me to turn off a song so that they can stop dancing, like it’s an involuntary thing.