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We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way - 0 views

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shared by swimangel1313 on 26 Mar 07 - Cached
  • The child is clearly too young to make such a decision. Yet, in the skewed logic of elite athletics and dancing, she is not too young to pay the price for it.
  • , just like her mother and grandmother before her. She relishes playing the lead role of Clara in the Pacific Dance Theater's "Petite Nutcracker."
    • swimangel1313
      swimangel1313 on 30 Mar 07
       
      I love the Nutcracker
  • FREDRIKA KEEFER is an 8-year-old girl who likes to dance
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  • her mother filed suit because, as her mother puts it, she "did not have the right body type to be accepted" by the San Francisco Ballet School.
    • swimangel1313
      swimangel1313 on 30 Mar 07
       
      She is only eight-years-old! What girl has the same body now as they did when they were 8?!! No one
  • But for me, the more disturbing issue in this story isn't about weight but age.
    • swimangel1313
      swimangel1313 on 30 Mar 07
       
      I think it is both. It shows why girls that take part in ballet develop an eating disorder.
  • children at age 8 are already training for adult careers.
  • a psychologist to counsel the students, but at the moment there is not one on staff.
  • Keefer said she would drop her lawsuit if the school accepted her daughter. The San Francisco Ballet School offers the best training in the Bay Area
  • Does the San Francisco Ballet School have the right to give preference to leaner body types in selecting 300 students from this year's 1,400 applicants?
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How to Grow a Super-Athlete - New York Times - 0 views

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shared by swimangel1313 on 09 Mar 07 - Cached
  • start with the recent evening when my 4-year-old daughter, Zoe, appeared before me wielding a yellow baseball bat and an important announcement: batting tees were for babies. > From now on, she would hit real pitches, like the big kids.
  • Zoe, the youngest of four,
    • swimangel1313
      swimangel1313 on 09 Mar 07
       
      Since she is the youngest she is more likely going to try to keep up with her older siblings, thus she will advance more rapidly compared to those who are the oldest in their families.
  • is considered one of the finest all-around mini-athletes in the history of our house.
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  • I fully expected Zoe to take to hitting like she'd taken to everything else.But Zoe, it turned out, pretty much stunk.
  • I felt as if I were receiving a grimly polite report suggesting that Zoe, despite her athletic promise, had regrettably tested negative for hand-eye coordination.
  • As the saying goes, something had clicked.
    • swimangel1313
      swimangel1313 on 09 Mar 07
       
      Yea....its called practice. Some mothers always think their child is the best at everything and just will automatically pick up something so fast!
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