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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a timely post. I am struggling on what to do with my 8 year old.   He loves to swim but basically has to work 2x as hard as the other kids on our summer team just to keep up and even then it doesn't always happen.   So far has not caused an issue and the practices are great exercise.   Its definitely occurred to me that maybe we should encourage some other pursuits for some of the same reasons covered by PPs.  Or not, since maybe he is old enough to decide himself.

For those of you with older kids, at what age did the hard work pay off?  Did something click at some point or were your kids always really good?    [/quote]

I have two boys (13 & 10) who have been on our community swim team the past few summers.  Neither boy is the star of the team by any stretch of the imagination but they are both steadily improving - they get a little bit faster at every meet, form is getting better, confidence at competition is building, etc.   And they are both having fun at their morning swim practice.  In fact, this summer has been such a positive experience for them that they also both want to do (once a week) winter swim.  I consider that to be a pretty good pay off.

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