We’ve been attending Music Together classes for about two years now. It’s a terrific program, and I definitely recommend it for the under-5 set. After two years, though, Poppy has gotten so much more … oh, let’s call it outgoing.* She’s gotten much more outgoing than the other kids, so we’ve decided that she’s ready for a new activity.

We’ve talked at length about dance classes — because I’d like her to be far more coordinated than her mother — and she’s expressed an interest in trying gymnastics again. She’s also said she wants to do tae kwon do. (That one stems from taking a music class in a tae kwon do studio.) I’d like to just say, “Let’s try them all! Then we’ll see which one she likes best.” But then I’d have to pay for them all, and that’s not an option (particularly since Petey is still going to be doing Music Together). Oh, and I’d have to leave the house more than once a week. And then there’s also the possibility that she’d love all of them and I’d have to crush her spirit. Which we’d rather avoid.

So we need to pick one, is what I’m saying.

Did you take any outside-of-school lessons growing up? Did you love them? Should I try to make my girl a ballerina or a fighting machine?**

*She starts the songs, hands out the instruments and basically takes over. She’s also a good year older than most of the kids there, because the kids her age are now in preschool and thus aren’t going to music classes during the day.
**I know tae kwon do isn’t all about fighting. (I think.) But “fighting machine” is just kind of fun, isn’t it?