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Concern with dd age 15

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R33ose · 03/09/2024 16:59

I may be completely overeacting but if I'm honest I'm a little concerned about my daughter. I feel like she just needs to slow down as said I could be completely in the wrong here especially as all I hear are good things and praise coming from teachers and other parents.

She is non stop everyday I understand she is 15 now has her own life and would naturally spend less time with family but I just feel she lives a very intense life for a 15 year old girl I just hope she's OK and happy and it would just be nice if she can take the time to just slow down and maybe make the time once or twice a week to eat with the family or once a month just have a chill day me even.

She is literally busy 24/7 and also has some what I would say abnormal lifestyle habits weather good or bad I don't know. She wakes up very early has a bath and cup of tea but from then on it's just go go go, she has school 9-3 works 2 jobs, plays netball for a team, voluntarily helps out tutoring younger kids at school after school some days, goes to gym and running track with friends and plays tennis at a tennis club. She leaves in the morning and comes back at night around 10-11pm, including weekends she may stop in around dinnertime to grab something to eat or sometimes after school for 5 minutes to pack a gym bag or change or get her tennis equipment or whatever. When she gets home around 10pm she will either have a bath which is the only thing she will do in terms of relaxing or she will study do school for a few hours. She will also offer to do any house chores but it's 10pm I've done it all by then. One last thing her eating habits I find quite abnormal also for example she doesn't eat breakfast ever she will have a very light lunch and then a dinner but she doesn't like much and will never touch anything unhealthy when doing her dinner I have to always do hers separately as for example she won't eat chips or potatoes so i have to do her everything with rice all she really eats is meat and rice and vegetables or soup kr noodles she likes asian dishes with meat noodles veg and sauce. Since becoming a teenager I've literally never seen her eat a piece of cake, or chocolate or any kind of healthy snack.

Am I completely overeating and everything is fine I'm so proud of her of course I just hope everything is OK with her and can't help but worry about her

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