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[quote=Anonymous]There are a few different things in OP's thread: daughter isn't healthy, daughter is self-conscious, daughter feels like she's not good at sports, daughter isn't doing enough sports (maybe activities in general) with peers. Can OP spend some time thinking about this and which are the things that are really important to their family?

For me, that would be the healthy aspect and that can be solved by simply increasing family activity level, encouraging daughter to try new kinds of exercise, even walking with an iPod, and finding a way to be healthy that she enjoys. It may be that for OP what matters most to their family is the social part, because OP mentioned wanting her to do a sport with her peers. OP may worry that daughter is missing out on important social experiences or that she's not making friends because she's not on a team sport. If this is what is important, then you could do what PPs recommend, where you try to pick a sport each season and/or find a coach for an activity to improve her base skills.

I'd try to really start with identifying what you value as a family and work backwards from there.[/quote]

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