Although she's doing a pretty good job of being a pop star and all-around positive role-model, Britney Spears might be looking ahead to a far-off future when things aren't as peachy for her.

That's why Britney Spears has scored herself a quiet little job on the side. But what job could you really give someone who, just a few weeks ago, was deemed to be too mentally ill to dress or feed herself?

Why, a children's dance instructor, of course. Britney Spears is now a genuine dance instructor at the Millennium Dance Complex in Hollywood and is using her considerable dance experience to teach a group of 15 five-year-olds everything she knows. In fact, next week Britney Spears has even asked Madonna to stop by and jab her ancient tongue into each and every one of those adorable infant mouths. It's heartwarming.

If you're anything like us, you're struggling to come to terms with a world where Britney Spears doesn't do something newsworthily demented every single day. In fact, entire weeks have passed without Britney Spears collapsing in a sobbing heap in front of 250 paparazzos and a couple of news helicopters. It's weird, isn't it? Weird and confusing and wrong. Without Britney Spears to laugh at, we might even have to – gulp – examine our own failings as human beings.

But that's just something we'll have to get used to, because Britney Spears' father is doing such an admirable job at keeping his daughter under control that she hardly does anything crazy any more. Reason being that Britney Spears has put all the energy she used to waste on shaving her head and barricading herself in a bathroom semi-naked with her terrified baby son until she's forcefully taken to hospital into doing something constructive – teaching children to dance. 

That's nothing new – Britney Spears has already taught dance lessons to kids since her hospital visit – but now it's more official, because Britney Spears has become an actual dance instructor at Hollywood's Millennium Dance Complex. And what's more, being close to Britney Spears in an enclosed space isn't giving the children lifelong emotional wounds that they'll never be able to recover from, as People reports:

Britney Spears headed back into the dance studio Tuesday night to teach a class of 15 children. And her pint-sized pupils are singing her praises. "I like Britney," 5-year-old Elissa Bouganim, who has taken three classes with the pop star, tells PEOPLE. “Today, first we were dancing slow, and then faster and faster … Then we did the fish-move and lots of other fun things."

This is the perfect way for Britney Spears to get better again. The children are both a symbol of Britney's lost innocence and a reminder of her own semi-estranged children, while Britney Spears gets to feel useful and in control again by passing on knowledge of what she's best at. Hey, if Britney keeps this up then those kids are going to become the world's foremost exponents of pre-school underdressed whoreish dancing. There's literally nothing that can go wrong here.

That is, unless Britney attempts to recreate her most famous dance routine with the children and three of them wind up getting eaten by the giant python she brings to class. Then it might be a good idea for her to get back to the pop music thing.

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Britney Spears Earns Raves as a Dance Teacher – People 

Thanks to her Gravely Disabled classification, we know that Britney Spears was recently unable to feed or dress herself – but boy, can she ever dance!

Britney Spears' long road back to the straight and narrow inched further on Monday, as Britney became a dance instructor for the afternoon. Apparently Britney Spears taught a group of children aged between four and seven her famous dance moves as part of her rehabilitation.

It was a success, too – not only did Britney Spears receive a hug from each of the children at the end of the dance class, but they're also now highly proficient at dancing to True Blue by Madonna, Holiday by Madonna and the thousands of cackling witch voices screaming frighteningly inside Britney Spears' head.

Not much has been heard from Britney Spears over the last few days. Sure, we know that Britney's dad has sacked her manager, and that the Crips and Bloods are reenacting The Warriors on her front lawn, but that's all peripheral. Britney Spears has done nothing but recover from her recent stay in a mental hospital's padded room, and that's probably for the best.

After all, if you rush Britney Spears back into being Britney Spears again, she'll only end up wiping dogshit over her clothes or attacking vehicles with rainwear or falling down in a distressing sobbing heap. Baby steps are better for now.

But it's clear that Britney Spears is bouncing back, because on Monday she was allowed to look after some children. Given that she's not even allowed to look after her own children, it was certainly a risk. Even a fortnight ago, the only way that Britney Spears would ever be allowed to look after children is if they happened to have cruel parents keen on inflicting deep emotional scars so they'd never be bad again.

But now? Now Britney is all over dance instructing, which is ironic given that the last time she danced in public Britney Spears looked like a wounded deer trying to climb up a muddy bank in a rainstorm. People reports:

"The class was amazing," Robert Baker, director of the Millennium Dance Complex, tells PEOPLE. In addition to choreographed routines to vintage Madonna songs "True Blue" and "Material Girl" and "Holiday," Spears – wearing ripped fishnets, red boy-shorts and a blue top – also allowed her pupils to free-style dance. "She even played age-appropriate games in a circle, pretending to be a choo-choo train," Baker said. "Britney was just amazing with the kids and everyone ended up having a blast. At the end of the hour class, all the kids hugged Britney and she seemed very
happy."

In fact, Britney's dance class went so well that a larger class is planned for the near future. It really looks as if Britney Spears is focused on getting everything back in order again. It'll be hard work and it'll take a long time, but this is certainly encouraging.

Although if those kids all start falling out of nightclubs with no knickers on in a month or so, we absolutely retain the right to take all that back.

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Britney Spears Steps into Dance Class – As Teacher – People