Fuzipop Lets Children Party in NYC Nightclubs

New York City, the dance nightlife capital of the world, has a new club for an up & coming party demographic: 12 year old children.

CNN Money ran a story earlier this week about a new company called Fuzipop that puts together dance parties for children at major nightclubs around Manhattan.

"Held once a month for children ages 6-12 and their parents, the three-hour dance parties typically cost $20 for a parent and child to get in, and $60 for a family of four. A 9-year-old child DJs the events (it's not clear whether he or she was trained at Brooklyn's baby DJ school), and professional dancers help keep kids entertained. The kids get down with glow sticks and guzzle juice boxes — seriously."

"The tables usually reserved for VIPs ordering pricey bottle service were littered with champagne glasses and juice boxes. The bartender, who's used to serving a liquored-up, over-21 crowd on Saturday nights, was surprised by how much the parents were imbibing. The most popular drink that afternoon was vodka."

Here's a video of the party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsGUC92pI1c

The idea behind the events may be to get children into music, but we have a feeling these parties are more for their parents. One mother at the April 2014 Fuzipop event told CNN Money that Fuzipop lets parents "live vicariously through our kids, and we can all blow off steam together."

In our San Rafael ACT Patch article last week we discussed about how as a community we need to think about how child-centric events are being turned into adult events with the role modeling going unnoticed by adults and certainly noticed by our young. The same reasoning applies here where adult-centric events are being turned into child events. Together we must model healthy living. 

For the full story: http://www.businessinsider.com/fuzipop-lets-children-party-in-nyc-2014-4

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