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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only required activity is violin, which she can quit when she's 16. I'm thinking of asking her to quit ballet, but she likes it best of all her activities. I'm wondering if ballet's bad for her body image, though, with the emphasis on thin-ness, instead of athletic-ness. She's quite good at tennis, though, so it would make more sense for her to stick with that. She loves theater, so does that as well. Most of her MS friends do at least this many activities and more. [/quote]

Ok, so you don't like how her friends act, talk, or focus on their appearance, but because they do so many activities that makes over-extending your kid ok?  I don't want to judge you, I know nothing about this situation really, but that just sounds like too much.  One of your concerns appears to be quality of schoolwork.  Like I said, if I were in that many activities as a young person, I wouldn't have done well in school either.  Heck, in high school all I did was volleyball in the fall and tennis in the spring and the 3 day a week volleyball practice + games hurt my grades!  And obviously, she's very in with her friends and since they focus on their appearance, she does too.  I dunno.[/quote]

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