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Date Posted: 05:46:06 10/27/09 Tue
Author: mom of a DS
Subject: How exciting, I just found this board!! I have daughters that dance and now my son (age 4) dances too and loves it. Any suggestions to help him continue to enjoy it with...

..with all these girls around? He loves it so far because its fun to do it at home with his big sisters. Just wondered if anyone else had similar situations...

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[> Welcome! It's been slow here lately so hopefully with new enthusiasm like yours we will get some conversation rolling again. -- -, 06:56:48 10/27/09 Tue [1]


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[> Just found this board today, too!! -- Mom of a son and a daughter, 09:08:06 10/27/09 Tue [1]


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[> It sometimes gets a little quiet around here but all questions are answered without drama. It gets busier nearer major competitions and we all look out for each other. -- welcome, 10:30:52 10/27/09 Tue [1]


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[> Take your son the the oireachtas and make a point of watching the older boys dance - that always inspired my son when he was little! -- he's 13 with no signs of giving it up!, 04:17:42 10/28/09 Wed [1]


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[> Welcome to the board - as he gets older the girls will be a plus and -- ecr mom to a ds & dd, 05:52:33 10/28/09 Wed [1]

I had one of our girls mom's tell me when ds was 10 or 11 that he'll make a good boyfriend one day. I was surprised but here he was sitting in the pool talking to girls and having no awkwardness cuz he'd grown up with them. He's great friends with a lot of them now, has great friends from other schools who he competes against and all cuz he's grown up talking to girls as friends. He does roll his eyes when drama is going on but he takes that in stride too. Good luck & enjoy the time with your dancers, I find that I have a great relationship with my kidlets cuz we spend so much time together travelling to feises. Enjoy & welcome


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[> Here is the secret to keeping a boy dancing--help him find other boy dancers to hang around with at the feis. This spells fun for the boy. (When much older they want to be with the girls -lol-but when young, rumbling, tumbling with the other lads). -- it works!, 02:54:28 11/02/09 Mon [1]


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[> I agree with "it works" above! Bring him alone, find him some other boys he enjoys at the feis or wherever, keep him exposed to other boys dancing (see inside) -- we need more boys, 05:12:33 11/02/09 Mon [1]

my oldest is 16 and has been dancing for 12 + years - he has moved up the ranks and loves dancing. My younger DS is 4 years younger and danced for 1-1/2 years then quit, but now he is doing a ceili (we needed another boy for a mixed ceili and he was the right age). He is friendly with the other boy that is his age, and now he is considering trying solos again - he has been able to see over the years the fun that his siblings have with dancing and he loves the travel and the friends.


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[> [> that would be "bring him along" -- cannot type today, 05:13:13 11/02/09 Mon [1]


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[> Thanks for all the replies! Will try some of them out. there are a few older boys at the school that he loves to watch. :-) -- OP, 13:08:28 11/10/09 Tue [1]


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