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How important is sport (outside of school) for a 6-7 year old?

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SSShakeTheChi · 27/04/2007 08:57

I came to the conclusion yesterday that sport, at least the forms we've tried, isn't dd's thing. I wrote a couple of letters yesterday cancelling the contracts for KungFu and ballet and I told her she needn't go riding anymore since she doesn't like it. She isn't any good at any of those things TBH, she really struggles to coordinate and I think she's getting frustrated at not being able to do it. She went to swimming lessons for 2.5 years which did pay off eventually but it took her forever to learn and she hated it, however I noticed on holiday that she's very confident now (she can't do crawl, backstroke or anything though, just basic breast-stroke).

So do I just forget about sport for now or is it important that she's doing some sport outside of the bit of running about the hall they do at school (about half an hour 3x week as far as I can work out)?

Looking back I was riding at that age but that was it and it wasn't particularly sportly, just sitting on a horse that plodded calmly about.

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motherinferior · 27/04/2007 13:18

My six year old does an after school dance club - which she loves - and a weekly swimming lesson.

I'm afraid the very word 'sport' makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck (much like the word 'family' or (shudder) 'feminine') so I'm buggered if I'm going to try tennis or suchlike but she does, also, walk for around an hour to school four days a week, and about 25 minutes to school and then back on Fridays.

NKF · 27/04/2007 13:19

Sorry, didn't realise you were in a big city without parks. Can see how groups would become more important.

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