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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you and she have excuses for her performance?

Didn’t start sport young enough.... leaps out.

She is who she is.[/quote]

I think that part is just self recrimination from her..."Why didn't you make me stick with piano/softball" kind of talk.  She's noticing now that the kids who started something younger and stuck with it are the ones doing really well now.

It's true that I didn't pressure her to stick with anything as a kid, and that is on me.  I wouldn't let her take an instrument in 4th grade in school for various reasons (mostly because she had been taking piano lessons, but absolutely refused to practice and made such a stink about hating to practice) and now I regret that.

I regret not making her stick to things when she was younger, but she really didn't like to do a lot of sports.  She actively resisted so I figured why push her that much?

Now she is older, and interested in sports on her own, which is great.

I appreciate everyone's very thoughtful and kind comments.  She's definitely a "well rounded" kid and I'm not worried about her success in the future, just trying to steer her well through this time of negativity and feeling down about herself.
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