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[quote=Anonymous]How old is she? When I was young I got chunky around 9 years old. My parents did not force sports or activity and to this day say that I refused and I resent it. Parents are supposed to facilitate experiences for their kids who don't know better. We make our son play an instrument and "do an activity" which in his case is always a sport, but telling your daughter it's important to be active and she has to choose something is important. Just make sure you model this and do it, too. It could be a new sport each season, ping pong, or scheduled walks with you 5x/week around a middle school track. Just get it ingrained that people need to move. I wish my parents had done this - I did not learn to college but my body image was forever tainted and I developed an eating disorder because I didn't have a healthy way to control my weight. [/quote]
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