Ballerina Issues

Marcie is at dance camp this week, and it's the 4th week of her evening classes on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. She has been loving it! The dance studio is also having registration for fall classes. I asked her if she would like to take an additional ballet class (she will be taking a ballet/tap combination class already) and she said no, that she would rather take an extra tap class. I asked her why, and she said because "ballet hurts my feet." I couldn't quite figure out how ballet would hurt her feet, so I asked, "where do your feet hurt?" She pointed to her heels and her big toe, and then it occured to me that her ballet shoes were too small! Bless her heart! I mentioned it to her dance teacher and she said that Marcie has not complained at all in class. Poor thing was suffering in silence! I corrected that problem today!