Can I vent to you all

[disneydance]

Ok so as you probally all know i'm a dancer ive been for 5years and before that i was a cheerleader and a gymnast when i first started dance i was still in gymnastics and i was really good my mom hated me in it with the fear of one day me becoming elite as i had just got level 8 when i quit she never liked it since day one and was always trying to find excuses for me to quit one day she said something like so Katie you should take ballet if you want to make elite since ive heard that many of the elites have ballet experience and i said yeah true and so she signed me up for ballet after 2 years of doing ballet and gymnastics she very quickly got me away from gymnastics and got me on the competition team at my studio then i started taking many many more classes and that became my life lately ive noticed something was missing and i finnally found out what it was and it was gymnastics my mom trys to control my life and so i didnt ask her about it and the other night my mom started talking about her goal of me switching studios to where they compete more often which i had tried out for last year but didnt make it on the edge which is due to age. She was talking about how the owner of that studio keeps on talking to me about how she wants me in her studio for sure next year and how she has a guarenteed a spot saved for me since she thinks that she made a mistake rejecting me. The other day my mom found out that i'm going to try to quit dance next year and restart gymnastics and she started giving me a lecture on how i shouldnt and how great i am and how i'll just be frowing all this away. Then i tell my mom that when will you stop controling my life and let me do what i want? and she goes i do, not just this time i just want to rip my hair out she hates that i have great talent in gymnastics and i could be great thank for listening to me be pothetic vent that you probally have better things to do does any1 have any suggestions on what to tell my mom thanks Katie

 

[I'm a Divaaaaa]

You need to talk to your mother. You shouldn't have to do something you don't love. But I feel like you really do love dance otherwise you wouldn't be good at it. In any case, you really need to talk to your mother. Tell her to stop living your life.

 

[RaggedyAnnPrincess]

You need to talk to your mother. You shouldn't have to do something you don't love. But I feel like you really do love dance otherwise you wouldn't be good at it. In any case, you really need to talk to your mother. Tell her to stop living your life.

 

[DramaQueen]

you shouldn't be forced into doing something that you really don't like, but it sounds to me from other boards & stuff that you seem to like what you're doing, and you like being a dancer.


your mom's probably pushing you because she doesn't want you to regret dropping out. she may have made a mistake like that when she was younger and didn't have anyone to push her, so she dropped out and doesn't want you to make the same mistake.

i wish my mom would've pushed me and made me stick to one thing.
i did EVERYTHING when i was little, I went from one things to the other and quit whenever I got sick of it.
Ballet, Gymnastics, Swimming, Trampoline, Hip-Hop, Tae Kwon Do.
And my parents let me drop out whenever I got bored and wanted to move onto something else...
I was glad at the time that they let me drop out, but now I wish they would've encrouaged me to stick it out, because I could be great at one of the things by now!

 

[Tinkerrat]

ugh, my mom does the same thing
she tries to plan out my whole life for me
i tell i won't and she gets so mad
so i know what your going through
just follow your heart and whatever it is you love

 

[MrsSparrow..]

My parents have always been pushy, I'm also trying to give up a sport which I've been doing for many years and I am just going to sit my mum down and tell her. As long as you don't tell her in a angry or stroppy way, she should support your choice and encourage you.

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