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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tennis and horse riding are both lifelong sports/activities.  Maybe view it as an investment in his long-term interests.  In other words, you are paying money now to help him to develop skills/cultivate a passion that will benefit him as an adult.  I would keep paying (so long as you can reasonably afford it) under this mindset.[/quote]

This.  I was a similar kind of kid and my main extracurricular interest was piano.  But I absolutely hated having to memorize music and do recitals (I wouldn't have minded if I didn't need to memorize it).  So around middle school this was enough of an issue for me that I wanted to quit.  Instead, my teacher was fine with continuing to work with me without the recitals and I continued to happily take lessons and play a lot on my own until I finished high school.  Through singing along with my own playing, I became interested in singing with a group and then joined a school choir and eventually college choir and church and community groups.  I'm glad my parents were willing to pay for lessons that "weren't going anywhere" i.e. was no video of my recital to post online or award certificate to hang on the wall and I wasn't going to be a professional musician.  Music became a life-long interest (I'm in my 40s and still sing in choirs) and a huge part of my college years because I was able to engage with it the way I wanted.[/quote]

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