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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Sports is his weakness due to his low muscle tone. Swimming is not his only exercise, and he also does summer kayaking, spring/fall soccer, spring/fall/winter basketball and full year indoor rock climbing. He is the type that enjoys taking lessons in group and he never practices for a second outside of his lesson time. He just takes any sports for fun. All of his free time are screentime, boardgame, chess or reading. His academic is all As on report card, and he also never spends a minute to study. His life is just playing and having fun. I feel like working hard is so tough to him, and I worry what he will become because he does not like to take challenges or working hard. [/quote]

At 10 he needs to learn how to practice something and work on something and that just for fun is great but it takes work to succeed and see results. It can be sports, music, schoolwork etc. Working hard and figuring stuff out is tough for all kids and they need to be cajoled and convinced and shown that it has results and hope that eventually they build self motivation. My kid is NOT a great swimmer by any means. Last year at 8 was her first year on the real summer team. She worked hard every practice, in the cold water with awesome 16-17 year old coaches who really cheered her on. She dropped 20 seconds through the season off her freestyle (now 5th to last instead of last in her age). And every meet she was in she did a little better than the time before and got a huge cheers from the coaches. It was an amazing boost and to show her that she can do something if she works at it. She will be one of the slowest kids this year in 9-10s and she knows it but is super excited to be on the team again. [/quote]

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