Originally Posted by seablue
Originally Posted by chris1234
Dd almost 3 seems to be this way too - ballet is her major thing, but also wants to be in the thick of things no matter what we are doing: cooking, legos, games (which she needs help with but still wants to play). I had to talk her down from 'needing' a violin around 18 months after seeing her cousins play - it took days to get her to stop mentioning it. I just figured no way was that going to work out at that age, but maybe at 4 or 5. I think of her as being about like a 4 or 5 year old; people comment the same or guess her age as around 4. She is big so that her behavior/vocab. doesn't stand out too much until someone asks her age.
Sings at the top of her lungs, starts with regular songs and just takes them to a new level with funny jokes and ridiculous lyrics.

She is extremely bossy. And, typical for her age, very possessive right now. We are having daily fights between ds8 and her now because she thinks she owns the world, so I'd love some advice on that!

I'm sorry, Chris: did you realize you were describing MY DD 26 mos? LOL! I think you must know her, especially the part about the funny, new lyrics and the violin (a guitar in our case, and we got her a toy one with strings). Your post is so spot-on it gives me goose flesh!


This is so funny to me b/c all of the above is my DD. I actually have footage of her playing daddy's guitars. Amazing stuff to say the least. The guitars are on their stands and she is standing strumming them up and down creating her own music and then proceeds to add song to the music. And she really wants a violin. Here lately we have seen more Cellos on the TV and she asks what it is but isn't interested. She wants a violin. I meet this one man who builds violins and he got the biggest kick out of her while we were in the store. She was so excited to be near the violins. But I could not imagine getting her one at 2 1/2 years. She will have to wait for a while on that one. In the mean time she has her toy guitar which she loves to play; a hand drum much like the African ones and an accordion which she walked around today playing twinkle twinkle little star and singing. She is completely infatuated with music.

And this infatuation involves her dance and movement. She loves her ballet. I am still debating if I should take her to see Cinderella: a ballet production this spring. We went to the nutcracker and that was a huge success.

And just to put my two cents in on the gymnastics and withholding stickers. I think my mouth dropped open on that one. My DD takes ballet, tap and gymnastics all in the same class. They as a class have only once not received a stamp or sticker b/c they were rowdy and not cooperating. I applauded the teacher for not giving them the stickers. So the next time they were reminded and they have not acted out since. But to withhold for one child such as described is cruel to say the least. This is not advanced classes but rather introduction to and should be a fun time for them. The whole point of this type of class is to bring joy and activity to them. See if it is something they would like and also to start establishing the ability to follow directions. It is not about being perfect. So annoyed when I read about teachers taking it to such an unnecessary level.