Strategy Number 3
This weekend we were at an event which had high school students from all over the US and Mexico. Like most events we do, there was a dance. A dance at one of these events is the prefect storm for a teenage boy. You are in an environment where you have been meeting new people all weekend, everyone is there by choice, and you are never going to see most of these people again. For an insecure boy, life couldn’t get better. It is still a horrifying experience to ask someone to dance, but it is the best it can be.
With this context, this is a story that was told to me moments after it happened. One of the adults was trying to encourage one of their less graceful young me to go dance. He hymned and ha-ed for a moment and then said, “I am employing dance avoidance strategy number three: talk to a chaperone.”