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[quote=Anonymous]This is OP. I, too, insisted on activities when he was younger and he did them - soccer, band, debate in middle school. Ninth grade he did not make the Hs soccer team, fine he moved to a rec team vs other kids who didn’t make the team threw themselves into club to hopefully make the team as 10th graders. He also did band but wasn’t interested in debate in HS, nor any other club, but he was doing band, taking instrument lessons and playing rec soccer. As others have encouraged me above, we let him be him. Pandemic hit and instrument and band went remote, which made it not fun and he dropped it. His soccer team didn’t play for the whole pandemic 2020-21 school year, although it started up again last fall and he rejoined and that is now his one activity. Lots of kids pivoted to a variety of online clubs, kept up with instruments and sports, etc all of last year but my kid kind of just shut down and stayed in his own shell (he’s fine, just kind of went to ground as he us an introvert anyway). So now as a junior he is extremely reluctant to get involved with any new club- we urged him last fall but honestly he was doing his beat to readjust to being in person in school with heavy junior year workload. These are not excuses, I know many many kids kept up with their activities, but I am explaining why it isn’t as simple as “he should have been involved in activities when he was younger.”[/quote]

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