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My teenager is crying

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  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    When I was a teenager I had this same problem with dance classes, auditions, and performances. My moms solution was giving me a big white-board calendar and writing a number on every Sunday for how many hours I was allotted for dance for the week. It was up to me to schedule them and make sure nothing over lapped, and as long as I stayed under the # she gave me I didn't get in trouble. For every hour I went over I had to do an hour of chores on the weekend. The first time I had 6 hours of chores to do I made sure I never went over that much again.

    I'm curious as to how you might have balanced dance with performances? I've found younger kids go to a dancing school.. when they get older they take what they've learned into their expanded world.. say high school musicals...and try to do it all.
  • yellowlemoned
    yellowlemoned Posts: 335 Member
    I never did anything dance related in school, or much of anything extra curricular, everything I did was outside of school. Performances weren't a weekly occurrence for me, and when I did have them they were only 1-2 days long until I joined a national academy. Once that happened we had to re-evaluate my hours I was allotted to cover the required classes and performances and my part time job teaching ballet.
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