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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't let my DD quit a lot of things. She's wanted to quit ice skating for two years now.  She tells me every week she hates it. I tell her "Okay, tell me what you want to replace it with." Until she has an answer, ice skating it is. Two nights ago I told her I thought about her wanting to quit, and I'll let her quit when she finishes high school.

I'm going to roll that back to letting her quit after she ENTERS high school and picks fall and spring sports IF she has mastered Freestyle 5. THEN she can really quit. [/quote]

To the pp above:  why wouldn't you allow your DD to quit something she hates?  Two years is a pretty good commitment and I get not wanting her to be a quitter but, why make her do ice skating?  Maybe if you back off she would find something she likes.  Would you like to be forced to do an extracurricular activity just because someone else wants you to do it?[/quote]

Did you miss where I said that she's been told she can quit if she replaces skating with something else?  Because all she has to do is say "I want to take gymnastics/dance/soccer/Girls on the Run/karate/swimming" and I'll enroll her in that and she can stop skating.

BTW, she doesn't REALLY hate skating.  She just doesn't have as much fun since her skating buddy quit, plus now that she's in the higher freestyle classes it's harder, and she is not good at not feeling progress. [/quote]

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