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In response to "Your 7-yr old now: Quitting activity" article

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 Recently our 7 years old HG had to take an entire week off of school as he had persistent fever (which eventually turned out to be flu type B. Fortunately other kids didn't seem to catch it), then the subsequent week he started throwing a tantrum upon waking up for the school in the morning. Also he started resisting often on going to after school lessons that he had never missed. He now takes naps often after he comes back home, which I can recall the last time he did in the past. While we have no idea what's going on, I reviewed how he's been with the extracurricular activities so far. I figured that he's been too busy, and he might have realized that by himself, so we're dropping some activities particularly the ones he has been struggling. Although he keeps showing interests in trying new activities and in excelling everything (both of which are great), now I'm ok to put a pause on responding to him saying "Can you sign me up to this?" see how he&