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When a child says "I want to quit," a parent experiences several things at once. The reluctance to let go of an investment. The hope that continuing might lead somewhere. The fear of having pushed too hard.
Before treating "I want to quit" as a failure of willpower, it's worth considering that children around this age routinely reassess what they're doing — and that reassessment is developmentally normal. And before the choice collapses into "make them continue" or "let them stop," it helps to look at what the research actually says about what extracurricular activities do and don't build.