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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't do something that you personally hate just for the kid's sake.  They will sense your resentment and it is unsustainable for the long term.
We were out the door every Saturday morning for Suzuki violin while our neighbors ran off to soccer.  I loved the music and listening to my kids play music and I loved the diverse group of parents who had kids doing music.  Former college athletes who were competitive about little kids sports?  Not so much.  These were not people I would have befriended under other circumstances nor were they the people I could picture surrounding myself with as a community as I raised my children.  Think about what you truly enjoyed most when you were young -- I loved scouts and loved volunteering with scouts as an adult.  My kids joke that I loved Girl Scouts more than they did!  It might be true!  We all loved swim team.  We loved youth orchestra.  But don't drag yourself through something just because everyone else is doing it.  Find something that nourishes your soul and brings you into contact with activities and people that you love.  [/quote]

But make sure to let your kids do things even when their preferences might diverge from yours. What if one of your kids really loves soccer? Will you allow that child to play on a team even if the other parents aren't the types  with whom you'd like to surround yourself?

My kids have all been very different from each other and from my spouse and me. Very rarely have our kids' interests overlapped with ours. We have had the opportunity to learn about all kinds of new activities because our kids have become involved and I think all our lives have been better because we have been open to a wide variety of new experiences.

Our kids aren't always carbon copies of ourselves and sometimes want to strike off in very different directions than we would choose. We can't shut down our kids' interests because they don't align with our own but instead we can help them and support them and learn together as a family about new things. 
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