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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]5'10 isn't bad.

I've stood next to some people who played ball (baseball, football and basketball) in college and professionally.  And I think their profiles on their team websites all add three to four inches to their height.

At fourth grade, I'd still let him explore and just change sports season by season.  Or you can try committing to one primary yearround sport and add another more lowkey next to it, although I usually see families struggle with juggling the two.  You'd have to choose which one to prioritize.

I've seen the advantages that kids have that specialize early and focus on a sport yearround.  So can't say it's necessarily a bad thing.

But I've also seen kids who only play a sport one season per year and do better then the kids who play yearround.

Eventually, let your child know that they'll need to pick because it's not realistic to be able to do well playing multiple sports at the same time and hard on cost and finances.

For my own kids, [b]there have been sports I've ruled out due to culture/schedule and cost[/b]even though my kids expressed interest in them.[/quote]

Which ones, what does this mean[/quote]

I think there are some sports that I call niche sports that have a higher cost of entry and ends up excluding a good amount of people due to the cost.

This is all just personal point of view, so take it for what it's worth but examples are:

The previous poster mentioned "lacrosse bro"  I know more people are playing it now but when I was growing up boys lacrosse was associated with frat boy culture.  The kids that played it in high school liked to go to frat parties on the weekends and couldn't wait to join a frat when they went to college.  In the Fresh Prince reboot, Carlton was on the lacrosse team.  So that's what I mean in the culture of the sport.

Then for hockey, you have the equipment costs and since we don't have many rinks in our area, limiting flexibility on locations and schedule.

Then there are other smaller sports that my kids expressed interest in that are like $3000 for the fall to spring season and you have travel out of the area for tournaments (not just two or three hours but actually up and down the east coast for tournaments).  That's pretty much a no for me too.[/quote]

you so cheap[/quote]

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