Parents feeling exhausted after an audition?

OldinJersey
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:45:30 +0000

Over soon? ha. Starts all over again. MY dd1 is back doing the grad school rounds. Actually she’s done 100% of this on her own, all I’ve gotten were a text message and a phone call after audition one and two.
I went with her to all but Curtis and U. MD. The one thing she felt was important to her at that time was that having a parent there helped her avoid dealing with the other kids til after she played. For her she needed total focus. One fun part is I got to meet some of her summer camp buddies, with parents, and one stayed in my house for the NY auditions since his family couldn’t afford to come too.
So she’s dealing with this while DD2 is waiting for acceptances to college. They seem ok. I’m shot, exausted and fretting and I didn’t even go on the auditions.
For the parent of a junior, I can’t say enough about doing a summer program if possible - Kinhaven is her favorite-and finding a way to have a private lesson or two with teachers. It lessens the anxiety of suddenly seeing these top teachers for the first time.