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[andrewducker]

Someone had a good time at Babyballet!
Original is here on instagram.

Comments

[channelpenguin]

So cool to see.

I really really wanted to do ballet as a child. I mean from 4 or 5 til about 9, then I tried gymnastics, then found martial arts.

I never did ballet as I wanted to do PROPER formal classical ballet training and our only local teacher refused to teach that to youngsters. Of course she was right, it's dreadful for your joints (for most people, over time), as is gymnastics. We used to get a lot of ex-gymnasts into karate when they got to about 16 and gave it up, but they rarely lasted 2 years before the accumulated injuries caught up with them.

I'm assuming Babyballet is the kind of safer option that the teacher of my youth favoured!:-)

[mountainkiss]

She is the second most beautiful child in the history of children.

[andrewducker]

Thank you! We've tried neglecting her but it doesn't seem to have any measurable effect.

[mountainkiss]

I think that strategy only works once the pumpkin and rats arrive.

[andrewducker]

In your honour I read her that story at 4:45 when she woke up from a nightmare.

[mountainkiss]

Did it help?

[andrewducker]

It didn't make things any worse, but it did take about 45 minutes for her to go back to sleep.

[mountainkiss]

What would have worked faster?

[andrewducker]

We talked about that this morning, and it turned out that because of the nightmare she was feeling scared and having her bedside light a bit brighter would possibly have helped. So we'll try that next time.