Parents often complain that because of muscle pains after training sessions, children can be reluctant to go to classes or even want to give up training altogether. Muscle pains are a problem, but they can be reduced. I’d advise you to do massage and special exercises to get the muscles back into shape after a training session (after stretching or straightening the back). You can also take salt baths (using sea salt) for 15 minutes each time. And another thing: it’s very important not to miss the training session the day after heavy exercises, because that will help overcome the muscle pains by fighting fire with fire. You need to explain all this to your child and tell her that there’s always a lot of hard work, stress and exhaustion behind any beautiful performance, whether in sport, dance or ballet, and I think the issue of whether to force her to train or not will then just disappear.