This Easter weekend was a whirlwind of parties and when you have 7 nieces and nephews a birthday is just around the corner. Uncle Chris chose the gifts and he decided that the Bella Dancerella Pop Star Studio DVD would be perfect for the oldest niece (6), Jillian. Too bad Christopher didn’t read the Amazon feedback for this product because Uncle Christopher was disappointed that there weren’t more detailed dancing instructions- just like Christi Morents of Effingham, IL whose daughter became ‘frustrated’ and started to cry. Or what about Kelly Solovey of Hershey, PA whose daughter broke the headset trying to get it over her head. Just how big is her her daughters head? I’m wondering what they expected for 20 bucks…

There were tears with my niece but it wasn’t because she was frustrated by the instructions. Sure that’s what she said, but Uncle David knew it was because she didn’t want to share the plastic mat of stardom with her 3 younger sisters. She claimed it was ‘too hard’ and that she was ’shy’. I grabbed her by the shoulders and looked her directly in the eye and told her LIFE was hard and that only losers are ‘too shy’. I then made a deal with her. I would have her sisters sit and watch her dance then, and only then they could dance on the edge of the mat of stardom as her back-up dancers, myself included. We danced for 45 minutes.

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