{"id":441,"date":"2014-02-03T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2014-02-03-bye-bye-ballet\/"},"modified":"2014-02-03T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:02:04","slug":"2014-02-03-bye-bye-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/03\/2014-02-03-bye-bye-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye bye, Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like all good mothers, I enrolled our daughter in ballet recently. She was so excited! Dance slippers, tutus, a dance class (no, wait: &#8220;ballet class, not dance class!&#8221;) with a teacher.<br \/>\nSo what went wrong?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The teacher didn&#8217;t do enough to bring our quiet child into the classroom. She was always at back of the line or the outside the circle<\/li>\n<li>In the first class, someone knocked her over<\/li>\n<li>In the second class, someone knocked her over and fell on her.<\/li>\n<li>She listened so carefully to the teacher, but the teacher didn&#8217;t give clear transitions &#8211; so our girl was left standing with her arms in the air, wondering what was happening<\/li>\n<li>There was a lot more &#8220;princess&#8221; &#8220;tiara&#8221; and &#8220;holding up your pretty skirt and walking carefully&#8221; stuff than I was lead to expect. Very gendered and felt overly restrictive for a 3 year old<\/li>\n<li>She only looked happy in the class when she was running around in circles, which the teacher discouraged<\/li>\n<li>We could see her joy of life and her confidence diminishing with every moment in the class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I took her to an open gym class on Friday, and she had a great time running around. Then yesterday, I had the conversation with her that I&#8217;d been dreading:<br \/>\n&#8220;So you had ballet class and that was fun.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And we went to gymnastics, and you liked that too.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;So dada &amp; I were thinking of taking you out of ballet and finding a way for you to have more gymnastics classes. What do you think?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yay!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like all good mothers, I enrolled our daughter in ballet recently. She was so excited! Dance slippers, tutus, a dance class (no, wait: &#8220;ballet class, not dance class!&#8221;) with a teacher. So what went wrong? The teacher didn&#8217;t do enough to bring our quiet child into the classroom. She was always at back of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}