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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8...3rd grade is too young to give up on him being able to bond with other boys through sports.

I know multiple boys (my boys are in all boys school) that became competent in a sport or two by 8th grade.

Get some friends together and play flag football. Play pickup basketball. Compete in low level sports.

Basketball is good because all of his friends will be cut in 9th grade and they can learn to just play for fun. My son plays in a fun Bb league in high school, he was cut in 6th grade (ouch) but he can easily play a pickup game because he learned to just play for fun.

He continued to go to camps and found out he is good at long jump, who knew. Now he wants to do track.
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3rd grade is the age where really unathletic boys realize they are not good at team sports. Keeping him involved in team sports is the worst thing for him if he is an "always picked last" kind of kid.  Not everyone needs team sports and plenty of boys can have wonderful, fulfilled lives full of fitness and team camraderie without ever being a part of team sports.

Your post sounds like someone whose perspective is of a sporty family where everyone is at least competent in team sports. OPs son is not that kid. Tewm sports do not sound healthy for him. Individual fitness based activities sound like the way to go with teamwork coming from otuer non sport activities.[/quote]

No. My perspective is from a mom of a kid who would rather code on his computer but was still challenged to do things that make him feel uncomfortable and he is now able to face adversity and hang with friends.

Also, he is dyslexic and smart kids are way more cruel when you read aloud incorrectly than kids on the Bb court when you airball.

I am not saying to put him on a tackle football team, I am saying play flag football in your back yard, go to the park and shoot hoops.

The idea that smart bookish kids are automatically nice and athletic kids are automatically mean is just plain wrong.

Keep at it, learn to deal, find the right fit.

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