Comments on Mom-101: Dance of My Sugarplum Fairy

It is a very nice and good post. Keep up the good ...

2009-10-26T05:36:46.962-04:00

It is a very nice and good post. Keep up the good work.

Every time I watch my daughter at dance class I fe...

2009-10-01T02:32:16.584-04:00

Every time I watch my daughter at dance class I feel like the smile of unbridled joy on her face makes it worth every penny of that expensive year-end recital costume! It's priceless.

This made me smile. (BTW, the teachers at "my" ba...

2009-09-29T12:51:40.203-04:00

This made me smile.

(BTW, the teachers at "my" ballet school are all Miss or Mr. Lastname.)

I can't wait to put Peanut in ballet! She's so tal...

2009-09-29T00:43:58.900-04:00

I can't wait to put Peanut in ballet! She's so tall and thin (okay, she's 6 months old, whatever) and I just KNOW she'll be a natural! And also? SO CUTE.

What a beautiful photo. I must say though that af...

2009-09-28T20:36:26.474-04:00

What a beautiful photo. I must say though that after years of dancing myself, I'm glad I have boys. (Who seem more interested in baseball than ballet shoes. At least for now...)

Day-care experience for me in southern New England...

2009-09-28T17:36:48.825-04:00

Day-care experience for me in southern New England has been Miss First Name as well. It took some getting used to at first, but I think it is easier on the kids than remembering last names.

My little girl just turned 4 and has just started to show interest in dance. I see something like this in her future, and I can't wait! So sweet.

That's the most artistic photo you've ever posted....

2009-09-28T17:27:51.831-04:00

That's the most artistic photo you've ever posted. You should enlarge and print for posterity. Or at least for the colicky adolescent years.

Also? My friends just informed us that Miss {First Name} is the way they've decided to coach their children to address their adult friends. The mom is from the south. They have nominated my name as their fave example so far (Miss

I can't believe I'm the only dork who knows Miss P...

2009-09-28T15:38:19.262-04:00

I can't believe I'm the only dork who knows Miss Patty was the name of the dance teacher on Gilmore Girls.

Love this post...makes me even more excited for Gr...

2009-09-28T15:32:26.538-04:00

Love this post...makes me even more excited for Grace's first class on Wednesday! Oh, our kids call all their female authority figures "Miss"/"Ms."...for them, it stemmed from daycare centers and they have naturally started calling their babysitters that, too. And we have been teaching them to call the neighbors by Mr./Mrs. and the first name, since, well, it seems to be

I love the photo. These are the kind of posts tha...

2009-09-28T13:51:36.328-04:00

I love the photo.

These are the kind of posts that make me wonder what I'm missing by not having a daughter. Not that my sons can't take dance, but that you have memories of doing something as a little girl that you're now watching your own little girl enjoy.

Enjoy watching her enjoyment!

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2009-09-28T10:42:54.895-04:00

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None of the adults I know want to be addressed as ...

2009-09-28T09:27:03.732-04:00

None of the adults I know want to be addressed as Ms/Mr Last Name. So we stick with Ms/Mr First Name. Or Auntie/Uncle First Name for very close friends.

Very sad I will probably not get to experience the first ballet class with my little boy. Hopefully soccer or t-ball will elicit the same sort of smiles!

I live on Long Island and my kids frequently use M...

2009-09-28T08:24:19.412-04:00

I live on Long Island and my kids frequently use Miss _______. Teachers are always Mr., Mrs., or Miss. A lot of times, we use a case by case basis. There are a couple teachers at school who are unmarried AND have super long, hard-to-spell, and impossible to pronounce ethnic names.....so they've decided to be called "Miss D" or whatever their initial might be. By my kids friends,

Nope Nil Zed, so far all authority figures have be...

2009-09-28T07:50:36.498-04:00

Nope Nil Zed, so far all authority figures have been first names here in NY, with the occasional Mrs. _____.

Guess we're just rude? Or friendly? Probably both.

I thought Miss (firstname) was pretty universal fo...

2009-09-28T02:37:46.355-04:00

I thought Miss (firstname) was pretty universal for pre-school teachers of any sort (except the male sort, I guess.) and after-school teachers too. Basically, any non-parent in charge of a herd of kids who isn't 'Coach' or an actual teacher, is Miss/Mr (firstname).

But then, I grew up in the south, I have no idea what it's gonna be like here in California.

Very sweet. I'm sure Thalia will be as wonderful ...

2009-09-28T01:10:57.399-04:00

Very sweet. I'm sure Thalia will be as wonderful a dancer as her mommy.

In her ballet class here, Rowan's class has been working on Sleeping Beauty. My modern daughter has been learning how to smile when she sees her Prince, how to sleep "forever" daintily, and how to wake up when the Prince kisses her and be whisked off to be married.

I've been

I'm so glad - and slightly jealous - that Thalia's...

2009-09-27T23:50:48.198-04:00

I'm so glad - and slightly jealous - that Thalia's first class went so well. I was sure my four-year-old was going to love ballet but instead went into sensory overload - cold floor, loud music, bright lights, all those mirrors and the first activity involved kids hanging on to each others shoulders. She flipped at her second class and refused to go back in.

Your post

Oh, the ballarina dream. Love it. Here's my niece...

2009-09-27T23:15:17.102-04:00

Oh, the ballarina dream. Love it.

Here's my niece, passed out in a chair at a coffee shop after her ballet class. I love this picture.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=544657&id=1272501158

And all of the ballet classes I've seen have been "Miss First Name", oddly enough. And I live in California. ???

That photo is just beautiful. I'm so glad she enj...

2009-09-27T21:21:14.500-04:00

That photo is just beautiful. I'm so glad she enjoyed her first lesson; Tacy's ballet lessons usually involved bribery.

I'm with you on the missfirstname...really, let's ...

2009-09-27T21:02:32.515-04:00

I'm with you on the missfirstname...really, let's just do first names or Miss/Ms/Mrs whomever. But I realize this is a losing battle, as it creeps up from the South.

I don't like being called it, either.

Nothing better than four year old ballet class!

2009-09-27T18:59:00.391-04:00

Nothing better than four year old ballet class!

My 3yo just started her first classes and they cal...

2009-09-27T18:41:07.272-04:00

My 3yo just started her first classes and they call the teacher Miss Mandy... and we're up in Canada :) I just assumed it was a dance thing...

She loves the dancing and twirling and bouncing.... I think as long as she likes it, I will keep supporting it...

We live in Ohio, but observe the southern traditio...

2009-09-27T18:02:38.449-04:00

We live in Ohio, but observe the southern tradition of "Miss or Mr. First Name". For really close friends, we use "Aunt" and "Uncle". I'm just not comfortable with my child calling an adult by their first name. It's too familiar and casual to me. I always called adults by their titles and last names and that can get a little sticky too. I'm 44 and

Us Southerners do the Ms Firstname all the time. ...

2009-09-27T17:10:04.844-04:00

Us Southerners do the Ms Firstname all the time. I like it.

I remember my first ballet teacher, too. If memory...

2009-09-27T17:02:48.886-04:00

I remember my first ballet teacher, too. If memory serves, she was Miss Last Name though. I was four, and I called my lessons "kal-lay". I was very serious about it. I kept it up for TEN years. The tutus, the music, the smiles. Those were great years. Take lots of videos!