The importance of the arts to teach us to process is imperative in this world of instant gratification. In the arts we have to get gritty and dirty and go through the process. We can not merely say I want to be a dancer and in the push of a button we become one. We have to start with the basics and train our bodies and our minds. We have to do a million pliés before we move on to the harder moves, because if we do not do the work we do not get the results. It teaches us cause and effect.  As we accomplish something new we get to feel pride in that accomplishment helping us develop a higher sense of self worth.  Self worth that comes from knowing you have personally accomplished something with your own mind and body.  This self worth is not contingent on how many likes we got on our Facebook picture or how many followers we have, it is self appraised thereby allowing us to to truly feel pride in our selves.  When we enroll  our children in dance and other arts activities we are  investing in their entire being. We are giving them a creative outlet in a world where children live through the androids in their games. We are allowing them a chance to develop a true sense of self. We are  teaching them the value of hard work. Most proud moms and dads enroll their children in dance at an early age because it's cute to watch them in their little tutus prancing and twirling around the room as small tots. They are in fact investing in so much more...
As their child begins the process from a tiny tot learning to stretch his or her feet and learning to sit tall like a giraffe and fly like butterfly they are on the path to greatness.