Thank you all! She dropped theater. Wasn’t LOVING it and it’s such a huge time commitment. She was trying it this year thanks to peer pressure. All her friends are theater kids. It’s helped relieve a bit of the pressure.
For some clarification, she recently stopped dancing competitively (still dances but only recreationally) so she went from 20-30 hours a week at the studio and living and breathing dance to 4 hours a week. Her newfound freedom had her joining all the things she missed out on. Last year she started to dip her toes into the EC world and having a social life outside dance but was still like Bambi on shaky legs. She’d been at the studio every waking moment since she was 8 years old . And this year she dove in headfirst to all the things she considered doing last year. She’s always had her sights set incredibly high so that part isn’t new, just this freedom to try it all that’s a bit new.
Thank goodness she’s settling into a routine. Dropping theater helped tremendously and she’s a million times better managing her time this year vs last year.
I think we’ll get through it. I did have to learn how to back off. She will get all of her things done without me, asking her what to do and what needs to be done. I was only stressing her out apparently