well Im not..but maybe like to think i am but i have girls so there is much dancing in our house..the boys get involved too!
Both my older girls dance at the same balletschool. One of them recently had a bit of an issue with going to a lesson which resulted in a nearly half hour stand off between said daughter and me about whether or not she would go into the class. Has to be said this was..outside, in the cold and there were 4 other kids slowly getting cheesed off. I tried every thing possible to convince her to go back in but she wouldn’t have it and in the end, to cut along and gory story short, I told her that we weren’t going to freeze waiting for her to decide what she wanted to do and that she had to come home with me, as she had missed most of the lesson anyway and then she would be going to apologise to her teacher at the next lesson.
At the next lesson, after my daughter had gone happily in. The ballet teacher grabbed my OH and told him that our daughter was very talented at ballet and had exactly the right kind of personality for it!!
er…excuse me? so the right personality for ballet is to be obstinate and stubborn? hmmmmm….really?
She obviously felt so strongly about it that she repeated it to me next time i dropped the girls off and also added ‘its important not to squash these strong characters!’
to which i responded… ‘yes i totally agree with you..but parenting those strong characters is no picnic!’
She gave me a wry smile…im thinking she may have, herself, fit into that category. 😉
I’m sure you get ’em in a tutu and the inner diva is released!
We are having all sorts of ballet dramas at the moment. I want to leave. I don’t want to leave. I hate ballet I love ballet. I want piano lessons instead. I want both…argh!!!
It bemuses me she doesn’t want to squash her sprirt…I happened upon a documentry about a girl sent off to russian ballet school age 5 – it was heartbreaking and if anything is going to squash your spirit a 9am – 9pm day of people shouting at you and telling you’re fat will. And your parents never phoning.
She’s not 8 by any chance is she?
xx
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I think we are all blessed with at least one of these ‘strong characters’! Good luck with yours and keep encouraging the ballet, it’s a good discipline 🙂
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