Elly94

Thank you so much everyone for the words of wisdom and book ideas, I was getting a bit worried when I kept seeing 'been dancing since 2/3' on dancers biographies and thinking I wasn't doing enough at this early stage to give her a chance of following her dream (if it continues to be). I will definitely keep enjoying the hours of being made to sit and watch her perform and her shouting at me for putting the nutcracker music on and not swan lake! @SpideyDad oh huge congratulations to your DD and classmates, they were absolutely incredible, I've never known my DD sit so still for so long without averting her gaze in absolute awe! They have well and truly inspired her, and I imagine so for a lifetime

My recently turned 3-year-old started ballet in November and is OBSESSED. Everything is ballet, even a walk to the park includes multiple stops at anything that remotely looks like a barre 😆. So without being that parent what can I do to help nurture this love? She has already declared she WILL be a 'white swan on stage when I'm a bigger ballerina' after we went to see ENB my first ballet: Swan Lake a few weeks ago and is adamant that ballet is her work (obviously taking this all with a pinch of salt). Yesterday after one of her many ballet shows she told me that she really really needs a barre at home, is this something that anyone would suggest? She also constantly asks me to be her teacher but other than 3 arm positions and plie (which I picked up at an ROH family day) I know nothing so have resorted to YouTube, is there a series or anything like that which is good for little ones? Then ballet schools, what are just some names I can through into the mix with her? We've been past the RBS multiple times and she wants that to be her school when she's big (mostly because of the spiral walkway to the ROH) but don't want her to just obsess over this knowing how hard a dream that would be to ever fulfil. I am completely at a loss with how to nurture this love, there is literally no dancing bone in my body and I still have no idea where she even discovered ballet to declare at 2 3/4 that she wanted to learn it!