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[quote=Anonymous]A couple of things.  We have the same problem, except my kids are boys.  I am impressed with your daughter's activities.  Playing violin is an amazing skill.  So, maybe activities is not the issue, but lack of physical exercise.  As more of an arts person as opposed to athletic, I have always been a little bugged by the message that arts is a less worthy activity.  Not sure if you're sending this message, but just sharing.

As far as volunteer activity, the only way we got my son in was either through contacts (he volunteers at a nursing home because of people who work there and serves food at a homeless shelter because his godmother takes him when she goes).  It's tough to get an in for 12 year olds.

My oldest also bikes with family.  We do it weekly so that we can spend family time doing healthy activity.  We also walk everywhere - school (a mile), the pool (1.5 miles), all neighborhood parties and play dates, local church festivals (up to 2 miles), etc.  Everyone in my house knows that you have to be leaving the neighborhood and/or traveling major roads without sidewalks before we'll get the car out.

With regard to sports, He and I spent four years researching and discussing options and then gave him an ultimatum - either pick something by seventh grade or I'll pick for you.  I also told him my pick was cross country because it was the least threatening sport I could think of for him.  I explained why I choose it.  Not surprisingly, he didn't pick so i enrolled him.  Guidance counselors and PE tea hers were really helpful to me in making this work.  Once he was successful at cross country, I was able to get him into tennis.  It worked for me.  One advantage for us is that my son was not resistant to physical activity, only to doing it outside of the family.

Good luck.  I wish my parents had taught me to appreciate physical activity.[/quote]

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