Ep 75: Inside EMC: We're on the Same Team: Rethinking Studio and Parent Communication

Robin and Santina tackle a topic that's been landing in Robin's DSO Collective Instagram DMs all season: dance parents venting about how they or their kids have been treated at their studios.

Instead of picking a side, they make the case that studio owners, teachers, and parents are on the same team, and walk through where communication tends to break down, usually when a hard car ride home turns into an 11pm email.

Robin lays out how a parent's role in advocating for their dancer should shift by age, from speaking for a preschooler entirely on their own, to sitting alongside an elementary schooler, to stepping back and coaching a middle schooler to speak up, to letting a high schooler handle it directly.

The conversation closes with Robin introducing a short guide she and her DSO Collective partners built for studio owners, paired with a companion booklet that gives parents language for the moments that catch them off guard, like a rough performance, a hard car ride home, or a disappointing audition result.

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