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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 607339" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>If her mom wants to be in the pageant world so badly, why doesn't she enter grown up pageants? How does her mom react when she doesn't win? I won't say lose because I think all of those children are winners just for getting up there. I would have eaten my own hand off when I was a kid if my parents tried to push me into something like that.</p><p></p><p>One word of advice on the gymnastics. When daughter was monkey's age, they were pushing her for team gymnastics and competition ice skating. She refused competitive ice skating because "it's too cold!" but she wanted to do gymnastics. She was really good and for awhile H and I were, admittedly, caught up in the hoopla and the "what if" she's THE one! Then I looked at pictures of myself as a 12 year old and of H's sister at the same age and realized that if daughter wanted to be a gymnast past puberty, she'd have to develop an eating disorder. I was a C cup by 12 and so was sister in law. daughter wound up being a later bloomer than I was but she's still way too big on top to be a competitive gymnast and at 5'3", she's petite for real life but an Amazon for gymnastics. I'd let her do it for fun but I don't know that I'd push the team. I showed daughter the pics of sister in law and myself and told her that if she got the family body, she'd only be able to do gymnastics for fun and isn't that what it's all about? She's 21 now and still limber but she doesn't do gymnastics anymore.</p><p></p><p>I agree with MWM, it's all about vicarious thrills for the parents and not the child's best interests in many cases.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 607339, member: 3493"] If her mom wants to be in the pageant world so badly, why doesn't she enter grown up pageants? How does her mom react when she doesn't win? I won't say lose because I think all of those children are winners just for getting up there. I would have eaten my own hand off when I was a kid if my parents tried to push me into something like that. One word of advice on the gymnastics. When daughter was monkey's age, they were pushing her for team gymnastics and competition ice skating. She refused competitive ice skating because "it's too cold!" but she wanted to do gymnastics. She was really good and for awhile H and I were, admittedly, caught up in the hoopla and the "what if" she's THE one! Then I looked at pictures of myself as a 12 year old and of H's sister at the same age and realized that if daughter wanted to be a gymnast past puberty, she'd have to develop an eating disorder. I was a C cup by 12 and so was sister in law. daughter wound up being a later bloomer than I was but she's still way too big on top to be a competitive gymnast and at 5'3", she's petite for real life but an Amazon for gymnastics. I'd let her do it for fun but I don't know that I'd push the team. I showed daughter the pics of sister in law and myself and told her that if she got the family body, she'd only be able to do gymnastics for fun and isn't that what it's all about? She's 21 now and still limber but she doesn't do gymnastics anymore. I agree with MWM, it's all about vicarious thrills for the parents and not the child's best interests in many cases. [/QUOTE]
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