{"id":340,"date":"2013-02-25T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T13:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-05-16T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T22:03:43","slug":"mommying-is-like-dancing-and-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/mommying-is-like-dancing-and-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommying is like Dancing (and drugs)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many dancers face injury in their dancing lives and I was no exception.\u00a0 As a sophomore in high school I contracted tendonitis in my ankle, an overuse injury.\u00a0 It plagued me through the rest of my high school days and even through college.\u00a0 I remember whining to a non-dancing friend about how much it hurt to dance and how frustrated I was with everything and she asked why I didn\u2019t just quit.\u00a0 The answer was easy.<\/p>\n

\"dreamers<\/a>When most people start dancing, they\u2019re little.\u00a0 Dance is easy and fun and little girls dream of one day wearing those shiny pointe shoes, sparkly tutus and giant tiaras.\u00a0 As you get older and get better, it becomes more difficult and requires a lot more concentration, strength, endurance and perseverance but this is when you learn to fly and twirl and become something else entirely when you dance.\u00a0 When you get to an advanced level, that\u2019s when it starts pushing your body to the limits and injuries generally occur.\u00a0 But by that time, you\u2019ve developed a love,\u00a0passion, even obsession for dancing.<\/p>\n

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I explained to my friend that by the time you reach this point, even when you know maybe it\u2019s not good for you, you can\u2019t just stop.\u00a0 Your entire life becomes wrapped up in and around dance.\u00a0 Without dance you get jittery and restless, you lay awake at night thinking about it and daydream about when you\u2019re going to get your next class. \u00a0You obsess about every little detail of your body, technique and focus everything on the next time you’ll get the high that performing brings. \u00a0Dance becomes your everything. It\u2019s like a drug.<\/p>\n

Mommying is not much different.\u00a0 Most of us receive our children when they are these sweet, tiny, squishy beings who only require a unlimited love and nurturing.\u00a0 As our children grow into their toddler years, they begin to share their opinions and test our limits and parenting gets harder (and for many of us, we\u2019ve already committed to another squishy).\u00a0 As they grow even bigger, they start talking back, misbehaving and sometimes purposely trying to hurt our feelings (just to see what happens).\u00a0 But by that time, you\u2019ve developed a love, passion, even obsession for your children.\"h<\/a><\/p>\n

When parenting gets hard, you might dream about what it would be like to have some time without them but then a lot of times when you do, all you do is think about them and wonder if they\u2019re okay, obsessing over every moment of their routine while you\u2019re away.\u00a0 You can\u2019t get them out of your head and you count down the minutes until you\u2019re back with them, getting hugs and kisses.\u00a0 You plan your entire life around them and their needs.\u00a0 Your children become your everything.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a drug.<\/p>\n

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Many dancers face injury in their dancing lives and I was no exception.\u00a0 As a sophomore in high school I contracted tendonitis in my ankle, an overuse injury.\u00a0 It plagued me through the rest of my high school days and even through college.\u00a0 I remember whining to a non-dancing friend about how much it hurt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-ballerina-mama","category-mommy-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8296,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/8296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}