Ballet

Kate started dancing just a few days after she started walking. She has always loved ballet, but in the past few weeks she's gone from wanting to be a ballet teacher when she grows up to wanting to quit. In her mind, she's mastered ballet and is ready to move on to something else. The dirty truth is that her peers have told her ballet is little-girlish. Ballet has come easily for her. She's in a class with girls a year older than her & she's still one of the best dancers in the group. When the rest of the class is off cue she's right on because she listens to the music. Okay, I hold a mother's bias, but it's influenced by her teachers compliments & efforts to pull me aside to praise Kate. She was in the local Nutcracker performance last week. I told her we won't be starting something new yet, but she's still ready to quit.