Anonymous
Post 01/08/2024 15:01     Subject: Why do parents sign their sons and daughters up for different activities?
Anonymous wrote:Because different kids have different interests.

Anonymous wrote:
Pretty basic. Why is this a question?


Because some parents here have literally said they wouldn't sign their sons up for certain sports, regardless of the child's interests. For example:

Anonymous wrote:

I would never sign my son up for dance, gymnastics, or cheer.

On the flip side, I would never sign my daughter up for tackle football or baseball.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2024 08:09     Subject: Why do parents sign their sons and daughters up for different activities?
My daughters are in ballet and my son would like to be there too, but there's not a single boy in the whole studio. He's in K, so I think he's too young to know what he really wants. He goes to a rough school and he'd be picked on for ballet. It's an afterschool program that runs daily and I think it would be hard on him to make friends in the aftercare part too. He's thrilled with his martial arts, which my daughters absolutely refused to go to even though I tried. I showed them that there were other girls in the class.

But mostly, you can't sign kids up for the same thing. Sports are typically same sex.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2024 08:08     Subject: Why do parents sign their sons and daughters up for different activities?
Anonymous wrote:Because different kids have different interests.



Pretty basic. Why is this a question?
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2024 08:08     Subject: Why do parents sign their sons and daughters up for different activities?
Anonymous wrote:Maybe the girls don’t want to play baseball and football.


This.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2024 07:58     Subject: Why do parents sign their sons and daughters up for different activities?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:We make our kids do one sport in the arts (ballet) and one cardio sport (squash). We have 3 boys and 1 girl. Two of my boys are dancing the Nutcracker right now. We don’t allow full contact sports or anything with too much anger (tennis).


Tennis has much anger? My kids play tennis and I never saw anger…


Same. Some parents have meltdowns, but they only embarrass themselves and don’t seem to involve others


I have 3 kids who play tennis. The kid who is the best tennis player can get very upset with matches. Have you never watched a tennis match on tv? Players can get frustrated and angry.

It doesn’t matter if it is chess, tennis, science Olympiad, soccer, anything - kids can get upset.


But it only involves themselves. Sure, a kid will sometimes cry or band a racquet, big deal. I’ve never seen a kid get have an angry altercation on court with their opponent at kids tournaments