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[quote=Anonymous]DD is in kindergarten. She plays soccer, basketball and tennis and seems to play them well.  In soccer, she typically scored 4 or 5 goals per game.  (No goalies!)  She's small, but could score 5 or 6 times in a basketball game. No problem stripping someone of the ball and dribbling it away. She just seems to understand the games better than other kids do at this age.  In both sports, she just steals the ball, dribbles it down the court and shoots.  She doesn't understand why nobody chases her and tries to get the ball back!  (When one basketball player did, DD was surprised once and anticipated it the next time.)

Is this just a case of having an aggressive, driven kid or is this what your athletic child looked like at this age?  DH is very excited that she's got some athletic abilities.  While I'm happy to have her running around enjoying team sports, I'm expecting everyone else to catch up pretty quickly once they realize how the games are played.  I'm also trying to manage DD's expectations -- she counted her goals from the fall soccer season and is fully expecting to score another 17 goals this spring; I don't want her to get discouraged if she doesn't manage to do that.

FWIW, I'm relatively athletic and DH has two left feet.  Our older son can hold his own in a few sports -- and watching his sister's focus playing soccer actually helped him improve game a good bit last fall.  
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