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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That seems wild to me. I also have kids (aged 7-14) who like keeping busy, but even my oldest is not so structured. They like to ride bikes, go hiking, go fishing, play outside, read, have friends over, play board games, etc. They all do one low key sport (between 1-3 days a week) and the older ones also do 1-2 after-school clubs. I do keep them busy with camps in summer because we work FT and they prefer camps over a nanny and hanging out by the pool.

I make them all take piano for 2 years and learn how to swim (they just need to learn front crawl) and even those requirements are like pulling teeth. The kids resist so much! [/quote]

Not every kid resists. We have one (10) and she asks to do everything and we have to set boundaries on her. [/quote]

I think it's one thing if a kid has lots of hobbies (and 10 is a great age to have capacity to try and do a lot of things - you don't have as many school demands yet, are old enough to really develop skills, and you don't need the same amount of free play and early bedtimes any longer) - but a lot of the activities listed on here are almost certainly parent-directed (such as the violin, piano, tennis, Kumon combos). [/quote]

NP. I have an 11 year old pianist who doesn't play piano at a super intense level (not, for example, practicing an hour a day), but she would HATE if I told her she had to stop for whatever reason. At least half the playing she does do is when she's walking by the piano while theoretically on the way to do something else and she plunks down and starts playing a current piece. She genuinely enjoys it.

Sure we got her started on it, and bought the piano in the first place. But from a pretty early age she was the one directing her playing. I can't remember the last time I reminded her to practice.[/quote]

I also have one who loves her instrument and practices all the time - her bff also enjoys playing piano at a high level - but I think it's the uniform combination of activities, not just piano in and of itself, that seems unlikely to be child driven. [/quote]

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