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[quote=Anonymous]There is a balancing act. Learning to do something well takes time, effort and lots of practice. No one sits down at a piano for the first time and plays Bach. In 7 or 8 years you may start to see some signs. Same, with sports and many, many other topics. So - your role as a parent is to help guide your kids. What you can do is learn about options for your kids to participate in activities like a sport, and know what your kid is capable of doing. If your daughter is going to be 6 feet tall then help her use that to focus on activities/sports where that height is an advantage and not a disadvantage. Basketball and not gymnastics. No kid is automatically good at anything. Practice. But practice is hard and often not fun. Learning to appreciate the effort you put into improving a little bit over time is a skill too. [/quote]
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