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<\/a>\u201cWell, it\u2019s just such a train wreck. I just can\u2019t understand why these kids\u2019 moms take them to this school to get berated on a regular basis,\u201d I said. \u201cI would never do that to my daughter. If she wanted to quit, she could!\u201d<\/p>\nEasy to say, harder to do.<\/p>\n
When I was young, my mom put me in ballet. I loved to dance. It was all at once soothing and exhilarating. When I made it to toe shoes, nothing could stop me.<\/p>\n
OK, nothing except cost. I was given a choice between ballet and music lessons. Although I don\u2019t regret choosing band over dance \u2013 I would never have attended college on a dance scholarship \u2013 I always missed ballet. Someday, I vowed, my daughter would get the chance to dance.<\/p>\n
And so she did. When Quinn turned 4, we placed her in a great ballet school. As we walked into Discount Dance Supply on Baltimore Drive, I felt the same excitement I did as a kid. \u201cLook at these adorable leotards! And these tights! And look, Quinn, check out these tiny ballet shoes!\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking back on it, Quinn was really quite patient with her mother, who was already showing signs of Crazy Dance Mom Syndrome. She smiled, she attended weekly classes, and she even performed in the \u201cNutcracker\u201d last year.<\/p>\n
But a few weeks ago her patience ran out.<\/p>\n
One bright Thursday morning Quinn sat straight up in bed and asked me, \u201cDo we have ballet today?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, silly, it\u2019s Thursday. Ballet is on Saturday,\u201d I said, thinking she had been dreaming.<\/p>\n
\u201cNoooooo,\u201d she whined.<\/p>\n
Wait. What was this? Who was this? Was this mi<\/em> child?<\/p>\n \u201cQuinn, you had enough of a summer break. It\u2019s time to return to ballet.\u201d<\/p>\n She proceeded to make a weird \u201chuh-uh-huh-uh-huh\u201d sound, not unlike the sound she makes when it\u2019s time for flu shots.<\/p>\n Holy cow, I was gobsmacked. I realized then that my daughter didn\u2019t like dancing ballet.<\/p>\n \u201cHow long have you felt like this?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n \u201cUh, well, I liked it when I was young,\u201d said my 7-year-old. \u201cBut I guess it\u2019s been a few months now. Maybe since January. Are you upset?\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019m not gonna lie. This was hard for me to hear. Quickly my brain started to go through several scenarios: Do I force her to continue to dance, praying she eventually likes it? Do I let her quit and couch surf on Saturday mornings?<\/p>\n In the end I fell back on parental instinct. I gave her a hug and reassured her that she didn\u2019t need to dance ballet to make me happy. I also thanked her for sticking it out as long as she did.<\/p>\n So I was proud that I didn\u2019t succumb to the Crazy Dance Mom Syndrome and force Quinn to attend ballet class on Saturday mornings. While I may not have a future prima ballerina, I do have a happy child, which is a more important goal than realizing an old dream through my daughter, who is, thankfully, her own person.<\/p>\n \u2014Genevieve A. Suzuki is a La Mesa resident who practices family law. Visit her website at sdlawyersuzuki.com.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Genevieve A. Suzuki A couple of years ago one of my guiltiest pleasures was watching the Lifetime show \u201cDance Moms.\u201d That series had it all: talented kids, an egomaniacal teacher and, best of all, crazy moms. Every week I would watch the instructor manipulate and torment the young dancers while their mothers peered at […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":223730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Curing \u2018Crazy Dance Mom Syndrome\u2019","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}