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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree - particularly in this area. I put my daughter on the swim team in the neighborhood at the advanced age of 8. Totally turned her off. Kids who had been swimming since the age of 3 were yelling at her not to linger on the wall and turn quickly, Didn't want her on the relay team because she was too "slow" and on and on. These kids had been put on the team since very young ages. Yuck. Too competitive.[/quote] Yeah, this is my big concern. I like the idea of participating in team sports -- something I never had an opportunity to do as a kid because my mother didn't think girls should do sports. But I think that the younger elementary years should really be for playing, hanging out, developing that independence and basic social skills that come from unstructured play, etc. But I feel like if I don't get my kid doing sports now, they won't be able to do sports at all.[/quote]
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