Why healthy dancer snacks are so important Our dancers work REALLY hard – dancing for hours on end and making sure they have healthy and nutritious dancer snacks is super important. As a dance teacher and fellow crazy dance mum, I’ve seen just about every…
Interview with Dr Lisa Ellis – the ideal dance parent. This week I was fortunate to chat with Australian dance educator Dr. Lisa Ellis, the creator of Dance Prescription, about what she considers to be the ideal dance parent. You definitely won’t want to miss…
Dance and the power of YET – helping your dancer succeed with a growth mindset Imagine if giving your dancer the edge and helping them to succeed was as simple as saying one small word! Changing the way your dancer feels about themselves and fast…
Dance mum disaster!!! We’ve been having a great conversation over on the Crazy Dance Mum Facebook page (come join us – it’s lots of fun) and some other groups on Facebook about our Dance Mum Disasters. From being miles from home with no music, costumes,…
Visualisation and Vision Boards Vision boards are not only an incredibly powerful tool to fast track dancer success though goal setting but are a super fun project too! What could be better!? Before we start to talk about vision boards, lets explore visualisation a little…
I was lucky enough to catch up with the incredibly inspirational Richard Elszy today and had the most energizing and motivational chat about the ideal dance parent. Richard’s mini-interview is part of the blog series, ‘Industry Tips for Dance Parents’. These interviews are designed as…
As dance parents, we are willing to do just about whatever it takes to help our dancer achieve their goals right? Problem is, many times we are limited in what we actually know about dancing, so it can make it hard to feel like we…
This week’s super hot tip for rocking your dance mum gig comes from Tina of Mississippi. Here she shows us a brilliant solution for storing all those leotards and crops. This over-the-door shoe storage solution stores a tonne of the most worn leos and provides…
There are so many things a crazy dance mum can get frustrated about. Why is my kid in the back row? Why wasn’t my dancer chosen for that troupe, why is that girl getting her pointe shoes and mine isn’t, why is that child competing…
There are so many great dance books for pre-teens and teens – so many inspiring stores. Check out these wonderful, inspirational stories, guaranteed to inspire any young dancer with big dreams. Check out the stories of Debbie Allen, Michaela de Prince, Maddie Ziegler and Misty…
