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[quote=Anonymous]There’s no one size fits all approach. What does he want to do? My son has a motor planning disorder. He was very clumsy and I was anxious about letting him play team sports. To my surprise, he enjoyed it greatly and put in a ton of work to improve. I didn’t think he’d be capable of much improvement but he was. He played soccer and baseball on rec teams. Later, he went all in on soccer and enjoyed many years of travel soccer (I never would have dreamed it!). I’m so glad that DH convinced me to let him try.  There were many kids with ADHD on his teams over the years. Some kids with ADHD can hyperfocus on activities of interest and it actually is a plus (my DD has ADHD). We were encouraged to try swim lessons when he was young but even with a private instructor with lots of experience with SN, he never made much progress except to reduce the risk he’d drown. So you just never know what kids will find challenging or excel at. I’d ask him what interests him and let him at least try. It’s one short rec season if he tries a team sport. [/quote]

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