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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One solo sport (tennis) and one creative (dance). She hasn’t expressed interest in organized sports or music yet. She does each once a week after school and comes home the other three days for free play [/quote]

Activities don’t have to be organized.   You can practice tennis together. Bike ride, playground the usual.

I tried a few things with my oldest but dance / ballet was all she wanted.

If you had a different activity every day that would be too much.   Jack of all trades, master of none.  Hopefully you’ll be able zero in on her favorite in a few years. [/quote]

You think kids should specialize… in 1st grade? I think it’s fine to try lots of different activities at that age. Heck, at any age. [/quote]

No.  I meant they should try what their parent think the child would be interested in   Sports, drama, gymnastics , music, dance, martial arts.

After a few years of trying various activities hopefully the child will be drawn to 1 or 2 activities and they can focus only on those.

My daughter’s friend’s mother, seemed to think her daughter could do it all.  She usually had two activities per day.   Singing lessons, drama lessons, gymnastics, cheerleading, ballet school and dance studio.  She was mediocre at them all.

She moved to Texas and wanted to be a cheerleader so bad but didn’t make it.    If she had focused everything she had on cheerleading exclusively I would bet she would have made it. [/quote]

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