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4 years old and hating ballet classes...help!!

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LuLu15 · 24/05/2008 12:18

My dd will be 4 next month. For the past 2 weeks I've taken her to a ballet class for pre-primary children on a Saturday morning and she either clings to me screaming or cries all the way through the class and today we had to leave early because she was obviously too distressed to carry on. I feel both cruel for 'making' her do something she doesn't want to do and disappointed that she won't give it a go at least. Do I carry on making her go and hope she gets over it or wait till she's older? I feel like I've let her down by not helping her get over this better

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Romy7 · 25/05/2008 12:47

fillyjonk - why not lessons? bit confused...
DS1 started dancing in the back of his big sister's ballet class when he was 2 1/2 and the teacher eventually just said 'let him join in if he wants to'... He's 6 1/2 now and each year I ask him if he still wants to do ballet and he does - although this time he asked if we could find a school with some more boys in, so we did...
DD1 started early as she had an angelina obsessive phase, and is now 8 and does ballet, tap, freestyle and modern - she's not going to do it for a living (she's going to be eighteen feet tall for a start) but she loves it and it gives her loads of confidence. DD2 (4) has just started, but we've had to find a group willing to take her (she has some sn) - she's been asking for lessons for a year and a half, so I'm not going to tell her she can't! (and, for op - she had two episodes of throwing a wobbly at the start of the lesson, but in between she was desperate to go, so we made a decision to try for 4 weeks, and if she didn't settle, then to sack it - she's fine now)...
but, in anwer to the first q - if it wasn't her idea to go anyway, and she really doesn't want to, then, um, why bother?

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