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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I took my first ballet class when I was 3 years old. I went on pointe at age 12. I continued to dance very seriously all the way through college.
Ballet wasn't something my parents forced on me. It was something I wanted to do, and if my parents had suggested I might try something else because I wasn't going to make it professionally as a dancer, I would have had one hell of a hissy fit.
Dancing definitely fucked with my body image. But it also taught me about repetition, perfection, self-confidence, discipline. If my daughter told me she wanted to dance, I'd be willing to drive her to dance classes as many days a week as she wanted to go.
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I was simply responding to AG; but I am glad that I was the catalyst for baltass to make his first point that a non-geek could understand. Sports are great. for girls team sports are best but all sports are great.
As to your dancing, it didn't take up your whole life, did it? My daughter had school friends when she was 6-10 that could never do anything outside school because one went to gymnastics and one went to the ice rink- almost every day, with meets on most weekends.
Balt is right that playing sports for hours is arguably better than playing video. A truism doesn't mean that losing your ability to hang and play as a kid didn't take something away.
