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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is the youngest in her grade, small for her age (<10th percentile), and a late bloomer re puberty so she doesn't really stand a chance.  She plays rec soccer and swims for fun.

She loved basketball as a sport, but the cutoff for the more competitive league is literally the day after her birthday, making her the absolute youngest and smallest.  At 11 yo, that makes her 50" tall playing against kids who are 5'9" or even taller.  She's roughly the same size as a tall third grader and the other players are adult sized.  It's just not fun.  When she first tried out a few years ago, her birthday being two days later and playing down a league would have made all the difference.  But the late puberty probably would have pushed her to drop it by now anyways.

Just for reference re young for her grade, she'll be 13 for the beginning of freshman year of highschool.  And her pediatrician expects her to start puberty as a 13-14 yo.  We're not a short family so she'll likely end up around 5'8" but not for a long while.[/quote]

Oh wow - NP and this is my daughter exactly. Exactly the same - she’s smallest, youngest in her class, will start HS at 13, and we hope to get her to swim and do some rec league stuff now (10, will be 10 at the start of 6th). Thank you for posting! I shouldn’t care but it is hard to take when other adults post repeatedly about ‘talent’ and ‘heart’ when their kids are far older, have hit puberty, and so forth. I just want DD to have fun and exercise, I’m not talking about competitive leagues or travel.  There is a ton of overweening parental pride in families of other girls regarding athletics and it can be tough to hear.[/quote]

Have you tried dance classes where the students are typically very thin and tiny, ballet anyway.  Or high energy classes like hip hop, jazz, African dance classes.  Cheerleading and gymnastics are perfect for petite girls.   Middle school and high school can only have a handful of players in basketball, soccer, etc.  Softball doesn’t really offer much in terms of exercise.  [/quote]

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