Reply to Individual sport/Team sport/Musial instrument for boy & girl

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Individual sport/Team sport/Musial instrument for boy & girl"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Swimming for individual. Year-round. Builds good overall physique for both boys and girls. Opportunity for high school team, even if you aren't fantastic. Life-guarding is a great summer job in high school and college. As an adult it's low impact and a long term fitness option.

Soccer or basketball for team sport. Cheap equipment, long term easy to just get a couple of friends together to play or join a pickup game. I had my kids do rec soccer in fall and spring and rec basketball in the winter. Kids (& dad) gave up basketball in winter and switched to futsal.

Start piano early (4 or 5 when their hands are big enough). Stick with it as long as they have interest. Being able to read the complex music and perform complex chording and rhythms is wonderful brain development and will lay a musical foundation that if they stop they can still come back as an adult to learn. My kids all stopped in middle school as other activities took priority. No harm in trying an instrument in elementary. My kids enjoyed their various instruments and picked up playing easily with the piano background. Unfortunately, one went to a small high school that had almost no band, and it conflicted with classes, so my oldest dropped playing then. My two younger kids went to a middle school with a terrible band teacher and they stopped playing in middle school. The piano still stick with them though - they will still occasionally play and pick out popular songs for their own entertainment.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics