My daughter is an artistic athlete (prefer not to say due to it being a small community), and her private lessons are 1.5-2 hours away once per week and last 1.5 hours. Private ballet is 1 hour away, and though weekly would be best, we typically go every other week. They are in opposite directions, and I don’t think she could handle those back to back anyway, Gymnastics (rec) is 25-30 minutes away for an hour each week. Ballet and gymnastics are to help with her main sport. We also take her to practice in local facilities, and she practices at home on certain skills. We live rurally, and what is local is just not very good. I homeschool, and we have three other children. Her lessons are during the day, and they cannot be moved. My other kids do things, too, not as intense— but it’s piled onto this. I have to be honest— never being home is affecting our homeschool routine, and I’m struggling. I have two kids who need more support with school, though she is a model student. I actually came down with shingles, which is triggered by stress. Her sport has no forum, but I know gymnastics parents might be able to relate. I don’t want to give up homeschooling, and she’s made it so far in her sport. I feel she needs more frequent ballet and to stick with gymnastics to learn a front walkover, but I just can’t do this anymore. If you struggled, what did you do? She’s done Outschool dance, but in person is better. Do you let something go? She hasn’t gotten her walkover in a year as it isn’t practiced enough, and I asked for tips if she could just work on it at home since she’s close, but some said not to do that. I wish everything was in one place, but it’s not. I wish you could just go one thing, but it seems so many things require lessons in other things. I need less. She is 8. WWYD
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