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[quote=Anonymous]For my kid (7 DS) what has been worth it is baseball and soccer as far as organized leagues.  As of now the leagues are organized by school so he is with his buddies on a team. He loves both and wants to do both.  He asked me to sign him up.

Skiing. We ski as a family.  My husband and I absolutely love it so we basically "forced" him into lessons.  He is now good enough to ski the double black diamonds out West when we go.  We also go as a family to WV 7-8 weekends during the winter and there is a group of families in our neighborhood that also go out there so we have lots of fun. (Not every family goes all the weekends we do but there is usually a fun group) He is going to try out for one of the ski teams in WV this year.

Swimming lessons for fun and for safety.  He spent lots of time at the pool with friends this summer and it was great.  I signed him up for stroke lessons this fall, not to be on a team but to be proficient and comfortable enough for us to do other water stuff like SUP, water parks etc.

My son loves going to birthday parties.  He has a nice group of friends at school, so he is invited to many.  If we are around, I try to make it.  If we aren't, I don't sweat it.  I don't cancel plans for them but I will make and effort to take him, even if they are out in Rockville or Falls Church.(We live in DC)

My son isn't ready for music lessons yet.  He doesn't have the attention span for it.  It is on the radar. My husband plays guitar and would love for him to take up an instrument.

I think that the only thing that you "should" do is to make sure that your kid knows how to swim.  The rest of the stuff is all kid/family dependent.[/quote]

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