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Let’s Stop Acting Like It’s Too Late For a 12-Year-Old to Start Playing a New Sport - TODAY.com

·Oct 1, 2026

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These days, it can feel as though kids have to pick “their sport” by kindergarten. Travel teams, competition dance classes and specialized activity programs can be intense, exhausting and all-consuming. What about the tween who starts middle school and wants to try something new? Is it worth encouraging a kid to branch out to a new sport ... in high school? Or is it simply too late? Atlanta mom Beth Rosenbleeth was surprised when her tween sons decided to try playing a sport this fall: her fifth grader joined his school’s football team and her 7th grader joined a rec baseball team. “When you are a parent raising a child, I think there’s a lot of pressure to feel like you’re supposed to put your child in sports,” Rosenbleeth, best known for her popular Instagram account called Days With Grey, tells TODAY.com. “We definitely dabbled (in sports), but this was the first time that they both approached it on their own, saying, ‘I want to join this.’”The desire seems to have been born from the boys watching their friends play.

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