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[quote=Anonymous]It all depends on what you want to get out of signing up for classes. At this age, kids can 1) learn a skill, 2) be kept active, busy, and out of the house, 3) socialize with kids and adults outside of school and home, 4) develop a sense of risk taking, accomplishment, and pride in learning something new and getting better with practice.

I signed up my oldest kid for drama classes at age 4 because he had a speech delay and he benefited from extra socialization and practicing speaking. I signed up my younger one for many gym classes because he needed to be out of the house and expending energy. Neither are interested in drama or gymnastics today, but that wasn’t my intention.

They took swim lessons to learn a skill and now both kids swim competitively. They took classes in other activities - chess, robotics, mountain biking, skiing, rock climbing, sailing, various instruments, and some stuck and others didn’t. But the nice thing is that they are open to trying new things. My 14 year old is an excellent skier and now trying snowboarding for fun. My 10 year old is taking up viola and trumpet (lord help us). Decide what you want out of the classes and don’t sign up just to sign up. And I guess it is ok to push a little bit, but I wouldn’t have forced my kids if they were adamantly against something from the start. We never had to push our kids into taking classes or lessons, with the exception of our native language. [/quote]

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