Committed children (for want of a better description)

I think it's a bit different in the uk. Certainly here with dance, it's really common to see girls sitting in the foyer at competitions with their school books spread out, knowing they've got an hour or two before their next performance. It's kind of accepted that if you have the discipline to be competing, then you are also pretty disciplined with everything else - schoolwork included. It kind of permeates your life.

Dd1 had to stop swimming as training clashes with dance. So now she dances for 9 mos a year, and then swims for two months in the summer. We know she's not going to race now, but it's a neat way round it. And keeps her strokes up in case she does up and quit dance. (not on the horizon, but she knows she won't dance professionally, so wants to keep her options open).

She's also working for some pathfinder award, and just finishing a mentorship project, with a list of stuff she still wants to do (climbing this summer, apparently).

Hmm. I have a DD who has a huge desire to perform and committs sufficient time to her activities that others comment and question it and I review it a lot. But her school are happy, her Gp is happy and she is managing it all so I am wondering a bit why I even question it.

She does 6 hours gym, 6 hours swimming, five hours of dance and theatre on top of her school schedule which also includes netball and swimming before school. She is 9

It is a push on a couple of nights - on a Tuesday she finishes school at 3.45 then goes to gym until 6.00. I pick her up, feed her in the car and she swims from 6.30 until 8.30.

I figure it will calm down when she picks her sport. At the moment I could cut down the hours if I stopped her doing one of them. But she is so bloody happy and the one she would chose to give up would be swimming, which of course is the one I am most keen for her to do as it helps her asthma in a way nothing else does.
I don't know. I am just watching really. She will be an idle teenager soon enough I expect. Not much of a strategy really

My son is mad on singing and playing his guitar.