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[quote=Anonymous]Ah, I get it now.   He’s not refusing soccer, he’s just refusing school soccer.  I don’t think it’s appropriate for you to do anything about this (except for nagging/persuading).  I’m a Tiger Mom Lite who has forced a lot of things on my kids when they were young, but at this age you have to back off, or you’re actually going to lose your ability to influence your kid because they will find you unreasonable.  Now, if he refused all extracurriculars, he’d have to get a job and start paying for certain things himself (or volunteer to help others if he couldn’t get a job, and I would pay him).  He has to make appropriate efforts at school or lose privileges.  But you shouldn’t force a particular activity at this age, no matter how right you are.  And my kid has refused plenty of things that i somehow got him to do anyway (but didn’t force), and he loved them as I knew he would, so I know exactly how you feel about him making a stupid choice, but you have to let him do that.[/quote]

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