While dancers may spend hours at the studio practicing on their skills, working on dances, and preparing for competitions, that doesn’t mean dance parents don’t have it hard as well. From turning into a chauffeur to helping out back stage, being a dance parent might as well be a full-time job. So we decided to provide some tips for all the dance parents out there to help both you and your dancer(s) have a great year.

Are you thinking of dancing professionally or in college? If you are, now is a good time for you to put together the pieces for your dance portfolio.

What is the one quality, the one behavior, that will make you a great leader? Alongside empathy and active listening, kindness is a practice that has the power to impact others throughout the world! But how can it be, you might ask, that this one quality—this one behavior—can have such a big influence outside yourself? It’s because of the ripple effect.