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[quote=Anonymous]I am short and puny, DH is bulky but only 5'10", so I assume DS will not be tall. 4th grade DS is always 50% height and 35% weight, high energy and fairly athletic. Loves going after the ball and running into the fray. Baseball is the only sport he hasn't wanted to keep, since it's "too boring." He wants to do EVERYTHING, but I feel like it's time to begun cutting back. How do we know which to keep when he wants to keep them all? Even if we drop football and hockey, he still wants to keep swimming, basketball, soccer, and wants to add lacrosse. I think golf and tennis seem like good adds for lifetime skill/playability and because he can practice on his own time as he gets older. The usual advice seems to be keep everything until you can't, but I don't know how much longer I want to deal with conflicting practice and game schedules, etc.

Over the course of the year he usually does these (either team or clinic):
flag football, ice hockey, swimming, basketball, soccer -- thinking to drop football and hockey bc they will be more dangerous as he gets older and the other boys get bigger.

Alternatives:
? tennis - seems like a great lifelong sport, esp for shorter boy, but he seems more into team sports
? lacrosse - really wants me to sign him up this coming fall, but seems just as dangerous as hockey?
? golf  - likes hitting the ball but has never played on a team 
? other sports?

I guess I have other parents scaring me because they are saying you need several years of experience in a sport NOW, otherwise they will not be able to every play it. But you can't do that for every single sport that he could possibly be interested in. So we have to choose and hedge our bets. I still feel like this is such a weird thing to have to decide now, before puberty and growth spurts.[/quote]

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