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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like both of you are living through your daughter...you are just as much with your prefered sport as mom is with her prefered sport.

Since most schools don't have 6th grade cheerleading, is it safe to assume that this is competitive cheerleading through a cheer gym?

If so, you are very poorly informed on several fronts:

1) Competitive cheerleading is one of the most athletic sports available to girls. It requires as much if not more stamina and athleticism as competitive level soccer. Those cheerleaders are tough and the programs are challenging and rigorous. Your daughter will need to be much more than a pretty face to do competitive cheer. She will also need to be an athlete.

2) Competitive cheerleaders are NOT "performing for the boys". Period. They are performing for judges and competing against other teams. They are performing for their parents in the stands. And they are performing for themselves.

3) Competitive cheerleading is not a "popularity contest." It is simply not. The skill level required for the more advanced squads requires athleticism, not popularity. The high school squads are the same way.

4) If you raise a mean girl you will get a mean girl, whether she does cheer, soccer, swim, dance, lacrosse or theater.  If you raise your daughter to be kind and compassionate, cheer will not turn her into some nightmare girl.  At my high school, the jock girls were the biggest bullies to other girls. The cheerleaders were very nice and smart too.

If your daughter is interested in cheer, let her try it. Even if this means dropping soccer. You will probably be surprised at how much you actually enjoy being a cheer parent.[/quote]

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