As soon as toddlers learn to “toddle,” they are ready to move to music and groove to iPods.

Small children don’t care if their moves are “cool.” Small children don’t care of they look sweet or silly as they dance to the sounds they’re hearing. They just dance.

When do we start being self-conscious? We do we lose our innocence? Sometime in elementary school? I suspect it’s just about the time the PE curriculum declares that it is time to teach dancing to fifth or sixth graders. Whether it is learning to square dance or folk dance or fox trot, what was so natural and carefree at two becomes exquisitely embarrassing at twelve.

I for one never moved beyond the sixth grade stumbles. [This is where you tell your own childhood dancing stories. In my personal case, as a kid growing up in the ho…