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[quote=Anonymous]I did ALLLL of the things when I was little but around age 10 dropped down to only those activities that I was interested in competitively.

I think a lot of it was because my mom was a SAHM until I was 4ish and she was just trying to fill the time. So I had swim lessons, soccer, tee ball, gymnastics. My mom played tennis so she taught me to play and then put me in tennis camp every summer, and private lessons during middle school (which I wanted to do). My elementary school offered language and music lessons so I took those as well.

This makes us sound wealthy but we weren’t. Genuinely middle class, not DCUM middle class. My parents scrimped so we could do activities. Most of them were the Y or the city rec center. My mom worked at my school part-time so we could attend at a discount.

They definitely weren’t a waste even if it was just entertainment value. I have fond memories of all of them. Physical activity is good for little kids and I’m still very active to this day. I have enough baseline knowledge of some of these things to help my kids learn them too.

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