Monday, August 1, 2016

My Daughter Doesn't Want To Take Dance This Year

For a few years now my daughter will say she doesn't want to take dance anymore, but I sign her up anyway and she does fine. She loves it, but for whatever reason she says this. She has been in the Nutcracker as an angel twice and has said she wants to be all of the characters that she can audition for. This year she did it again, not wanting to take dance so I looked around at other studios thinking maybe a change will be better. I was last minute, but able to get her into the classes we wanted. I showed her their website and told her about it and she seemed o.k. with it other than it being 2 days instead of just the one she's use to. Anyway dance starts today. I was getting her stuff ready yesterday and she said "I'm not taking dance". This went on all evening. I bribed her by going online to Claires and buying her a Beanie boo and a sleep mask....not long later she tells me again that she doesn't want to do it. None of her friends will be there, she said. I asked if she wanted me to try and get her back into her old class, she said no. It's so confusing for me. I know she enjoys dance and I just feel like if we stop now, she will miss out on do much that she's about to be able to do now that she's getting older.  But...I don't want her being upset and sad either. I did tell her that it's no different than doing the nutcracker. The first year she made it, no one else from her dance class that she knew were in there. Plus some of the girls from the nutcracker will be in this new class and she may know them. My plan is to talk with her dome more and hopefully take her up there to see the studio and meet the teacher (which I should have already done, but I didn't know she was feeling like this) and hopefully she will at least give it a try....and like it...I hope

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