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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We let mine stop doing organized sports in spring of fourth grade. He wasn't into it, he just wanted to be on a team with his friends with minimal commitment, but that's the age when they started shifting to more serious time commitments (club or travel instead of rec, 3-4 day sports instead of 2) and nobody wanted to reorganize the entire family's schedules to force him into that.

Instead, we bought some passes for a boulder gym and a ninja gym and focused more on getting outside for family bike rides last spring and fall. We've let all that lapse a bit this winter, so I am considering making him sign up for a running club in the spring with a friend - he doesn't like the sound of it but he likes being a good runner, and you don't get that sitting at home. Might conflict with a club he wants to do though.

The friends part is tough. Mine tends to gravitate to less sporty kids who are a little more nerdy- his interests too. 
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I think elementary school is just a rougher time for kids who aren’t super into sports because there aren’t a lot of other organized activities that they can do with kids in their community, that generate as much enthusiasm as sports. It seems like options really open up in middle school and high school for kids who are really into something that isn’t a sport.[/quote]

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