Thanks Mana, good to hear about gym. As you know it's so important and helpful for these kids to stick to something long term and feel they are progressing even when it's hard!
Re piano, I have to admit I'm a bit nervous about talking to the teacher - when I brought up the possibility she gave me a real hard time about DD being too young for that sort of pressure etc and that she intended to convince me to stay with group lessons. There were other parents around so I didn't want to go into it but I know she does tutor quite a few kids privately...
I need her to get that it isn't really about the piano it's about needing a challenge. At the moment DD has mastered her weekly stuff and by the time they get to the slowed down version in class she is just mucking about and losing interest. sigh.
