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[quote=Anonymous]5 yo DS LOVES sports of all kinds but he has a few delays, is on the smaller side, and is not particularly good at them.  I have him enrolled in everything - gymnastics and swim on the regular before COVID.  T-ball last year and canceled this year.  Basketball camp.  Karate. Soccer.  DH does not practice or play with him much.  I do what I can (but I am not at all good at sports!) so I put him in a bunch of classes so that he could learn.  He likes the classes and no one makes fun of him - it is more during spontaneous play - like he's super slow on his scooter and other kids make fun of him.  Or he joins some kids playing soccer and they make fun of him.  He also has some language deficits that are just minor enough to make him sound funny to the other kids.

I don't have any expectation that my child is going to get an athletic scholarship.  I just want him to be able to enjoy playground activity with other kids and not be taunted to the point that he no longer enjoys the things that he organically does love to do.  I am totally fine with paying money for classes and exposing him to things to build his skills and helping him build confidence and find things he might be good at. After today's round of taunts playing soccer, I can also re-commit myself to getting out there with him to help him practice some things like basketball. His summer nanny is young and fit, and I can ask her to do more with him as well.  What else should I do?

Because of his language deficiency, we practice a lot of self-advocacy, but mostly for the classroom.  What are some self-advocacy things I can teach him if people say he cannot play or that he isn't good.  Today, his nanny yanked him from playing with other kids because they were being unkind to him.

TIA [/quote]

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