03/07/2026
This 🥹 🫶🏼
Sometimes there is nothing that gives us more pleasure than when children that find achieving movements a challenging longer journey than others, because it highlights so many brilliant other skills they demonstrate along the way 🤩 which makes them amazing! Never giving up! 💪🏼 and when they do finally achieve it, knowing the hard work, physically and mentally they have put it, is beautiful feeling for them and us.
Phoebe you are a star in so many ways, and seeing you help look and organise some of the children in your group is just 💗
Thank you for being a wonderful member of Rise 💚
I’m posting this photo of Phoebe in her acro costume, partly as a reminder to all the dance parents to order your Rise show photos, but mostly so she can look back on this one day and feel proud of herself.
She’s been dancing with Rise since she was 3 years old and has loved every minute of it. But over the last couple of months, she’s really struggled with mastering a cartwheel. We’ve practised at home, watched YouTube videos, copied techniques… but it just wasn’t clicking. It started to knock her confidence, and she wasn’t her usual bouncy, excited self before dance.
Then, I’m sure with the encouragement of her fantastic teacher, she started focusing more on helping the younger girls in her class. Some of them couldn’t do cartwheels either, and she told me she wanted to show them that you can still enjoy something, even if you’re not the best at it.
Wow. What a life lesson for a 6-year-old to understand!
We’re still practising those cartwheels, and maybe one day she’ll get it… and maybe she won’t. But seeing her be okay with that, while still loving dance and looking forward to performing, makes me incredibly proud. She’s so excited for the dance show that she asks every single morning, “Is it today?”
It’s made me wonder… what have I stopped doing that I loved, simply because I wasn’t very good at it?
I might have to set myself a new goal to - be more Phoebe. ❤️
