My 5yo son is really into music. I have no idea why, because both my dh and me lack any talent, my dh is a good dancer and can sing but he does not really enjoy music.
He is always singing and dancing and when he was 3 he told us he wanted to be a professional contradancer when he grows up.
When he was three I enrolled him in his first dancing class because my cousins daughter went and he asked me to go there too. I thought it was an unusual choice of hobby for a boy but supported it. A year later I enrolled him in early music education (again because he asked me) and now he has asked me to enroll him in another children’s dancing class he heard of.
That would mean that he would spend three afternoons a week with music/dancing.
I wonder if this is a bit much and if he is missing our on things that would other boys his age do.
My boy is by the way much of a tomboy. He enjoys climbing, running and tussling with other boys. Enjoys it a bit too much. The kindergarten teacher has complained to me about him being to much of a tomboy.
So I first thought dancing was good for him, made him less of a tomboy... and it does. I saw him attend in a dance performance. Kindergarden teacher has complained a lot about him having trouble focusing. He was so focussed.
I just wonder if the hobby will make him happy in the long run and if there are not any other skills he should cultivate. I also wonder if other boys will make fun of him for it.
And actually I am not sure if he will grow up to have talent for dancing. There are several reasonably good dancers in booths my husbands family and mine but NO musician and no professional dancer... so what will he do if he one day discovers he has just no talent for dacing and spend so much time with the hobby.
Thanks for reading.