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[quote=Anonymous]The only thing I “make” them learn to do is swimming for safety reasons since we spend summers at the local pool and vacation at the beach.

Other than that they do what they want and I try to expose them to different things.  The way I get them to try different things is that we will play things a bit around the house at home. If they seem to like doing it, I might say - do you want to try a soccer team?  Or even Larlo and Larla are doing basketball, are you interested in trying with them?  My kids usually say yes and they each usually do one sport a season.

My kids are 9, 7, and 4 right now.  My 9 y/o is not a great athlete just in terms of his body type generally if that makes sense. He has tried soccer, TKD, running club, swimming, basketball, baseball and even archery at summer camp. He’s decent at swimming and baseball and will probably stick with those recreationally for the next few years for fun and probably won’t be “good” enough to do any sport in HS (of course I suppose anything is possible).  I will say this kid of mine has a lot of grit so part of the reason he’s decent at swimming is because he wanted to be legal in breast and fly and just didn’t get discouraged and kept working and working at it. I could also see him becoming a baseball youth umpire when he ages out of LL.

Re: music, I’m not sure I’m doing anything right! I offer piano lessons annually bc I think it is a good intro instrument. So far no one has taken me up on the offer and I haven’t forced it!  I did tell my oldest last year that it’s important to get a well rounded education, learn new things, and to try different things to see if you like it.  So, I said I want you to try some kind of music in ES - I don’t care whether you want to try band, orchestra or chorus but I want you to try something in ES bc it’s a nice opportunity you have to in school to try it. He tried strings in 4th grade and doesn’t like to practice much and I don’t really force it but it seems to have gone well and he’s enjoying it. Basically the entire 4th grade did strings so that helped.

I actually ran track in college and did XC/track and band in HS. 
In my experience it’s a pain to try to get kids to go anything they don’t want to do and it’s not worth it IMO.

Lol idk why I started writing a treatise here but now I don’t have time to finish about DCs 2 and 3. Lol. [/quote]

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