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If Mom is convinced that ballet lessons are a must, she shouldtake them.Although it may look odd to see a thirty-year old woman hang- ing onto a bar and flinging a slightly plump leg in the air, the sight is not as pathetic as seeing her seven-year old daughter grimly going through such motions just to please her mother, when she would prefer to be at home designing new doll clothes.Although some parents are never quite ready to accept this fact, the child is not one of our possessions. We don__ own him; we never will. We gave birth to his body; he may share some of our physical characteristics; but he does not inherit our desires.He__ a different person, a separate entity, with his own likes and dislikes.It__ a grave mistake to try to override a child__ power of choice in what he wants to be and do. Some parents do this in an attempt to live their lives through the child.
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If Mom is convinced that ballet lessons are a must, she shouldtake them.Although it may look odd to see a thirty-year old woman hang- ing onto a bar and flinging a slightly plump leg in the air, the sight is not as pathetic as seeing her seven-year old daughter grimly going through such motions just to please her mother, when she would prefer to be at home designing new doll clothes.Although some parents are never quite ready to accept this fact, the child is not one of our possessions. We don__ own him; we never will. We gave birth to his body; he may share some of our physical characteristics; but he does not inherit our desires.He__ a different person, a separate entity, with his own likes and dislikes.It__ a grave mistake to try to override a child__ power of choice in what he wants to be and do. Some parents do this in an attempt to live their lives through the child.

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