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Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by josephwegner »

larrys wrote: post #26

"she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal." This is going to sound harsh. So, essentially even though you have an available resource (FIRST) since your daughter would rather take gymnastics you are then going to push off this responsibility to a complete str…

Teaching your kids to stop playing sports in favor of pursuing their career is a terrible lesson. There is a lot more to life than your job - our culture fights that notion, but it's true.

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by heartbreak »

voicereasonish wrote: post #30

> she's in love with it > I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. Why would you try and talk her out of something she's in love with? If she "knows some python", is she in love with it? Is she actively learning more on the web?

Because 16 hours a week of gymnastics costs quite a bit of money, and if she does meets then it probably costs a fortune. So money, money would be why a parent might try to edge a daughter out of gymnastics.

Or the injuries. They suck too.

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by heartbreak »

larrys wrote: post #26

"she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal." This is going to sound harsh. So, essentially even though you have an available resource (FIRST) since your daughter would rather take gymnastics you are then going to push off this responsibility to a complete str…

Both of my sisters received NCAA scholarships for gymnastics. So it can lead to a free education, where her daughter might choose to study something STEM.

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Post by sigstoat »

tinco wrote: post #29
larrys wrote: post #26

"she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal." This is going to sound harsh. So, essentially even though you have an available resource (FIRST) since your daughter would rather take gymnastics you are then going to push off this responsibility to a complete str…

Teaching your kid that work and obligations of life are more important than pursuing the things that make you happy leads to...

well, probably healthier relationships with other people, for starters. blowing off your obligations to do whatever makes you happy is probably going to upset a lot of other folks.

there's certainly a balance to be had, and it isn't fully in favor of short term happiness, either.

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by KimberlyGrommes »

Can you give a little more information about what you're really hoping your daughter will see and get out of the experience? What type of engineer are you looking for? I'm a software engineer in SD with a 12 year old daughter of my own.

Re: Any female engineers in San Diego interested in showing my daughter their work?

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Post by larrys »

heartbreak wrote: post #33
larrys wrote: post #26

"she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal." This is going to sound harsh. So, essentially even though you have an available resource (FIRST) since your daughter would rather take gymnastics you are then going to push off this responsibility to a complete str…

Both of my sisters received NCAA scholarships for gymnastics. So it can lead to a free education, where her daughter might choose to study something STEM.

"so it can lead"

Care to discuss the probability of that happening?

I know someone who got an NCAA (or similar) scholarship for swimming. The rest of the team didn't.

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