If you redshirted your kids, do they get bored in grade level sports?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone play down like that? Most families we know are trying to have their kids play up, even in rec, in every sport.

My kid has a birthday right on the line so isn’t redshirted but is often the oldest in the grade. For some rec sports, I automatically get the option to pick the current grade or the next older grade. We have done both and no, no boredom. We pick solely on friends and carpools. It’s not that serious in rec or house and no one is going to stand out that much. They would be on club or travel.

[Anonymous]

Seems like this is a yesteryear issue back when kids started their sports careers at school, playing grade level sports. These days, where kids are practically professionals by the time they enter 5th grade because of club sports (which appear to be birth year based), this should be a non-issue. Soccer travel groups by birth years, swim groups by birth day (age up on day of), same w basketball. Where are people still encountering this issue where it actually matters? This is what I like about sports these days - your kid may have a beard in the 6th grade because you decided to hold him back 3 years (“gift of time”) but he can’t play sports with kids 3 years younger.

[Anonymous]

Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids startinderg kingarten.

I think that this is a far more accurate statement. My child was born mid-September but he was also premature and should have been born at the end of October. We opted to wait. His preschool felt he still had trouble regulating his emotions and was not ready. We spoke to his pediatrician who said it was better to go by his actual due date and not his birthday. We met with the kindergarten teacher and she told us to wait as well.

He is doing great in school, it has nothing to do with sports. He is not bored. I never thought I was redshirting him.

Now recently his friend who is a year younger and born in September (same class) mom (first grade teacher) has been consistently saying oh - you redshirted him, he is so old, etc. Her child struggles in school, has an IEP, and reads well below grade level. I have never been in a situation where a parent seems to be attacking me for the choices that I made. To say my child was redshirted is disingenuous. He entered school when he was required to (before he turned 6 at the September 30 cut off). But to have a parent constantly say that in groups and social outings is so strange.

Why do parents care so much about what another family decides to do and the choices that were made?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school

Well the pandemic f’d high school sports recruiting up. There is the transfer portal now, and you have 7 year seniors now playing in college and that’s no exaggeration.

College coaches are less likely to take a kid that that hasn’t proved himself at the college level over a kid that has. I have had several coaches tell me they aren’t looking at high school seniors, who haven’t already been on the radar by the time they were juniors. Even public school kids are doing it. It’s gotten to the point that competition isn’t even fair at the high school level, if you don’t “redshirt”.

This has been going on for years, just less talked about. Now everyone knows to do it and 80% of the serious athletes are doing it. Atleast in basketball and all the best players are doing it. I’m hearing the same thing is going on in Lacrosse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school

I agree with this statement (or both) but the OP said something about younger grades which to me says Kindergarten redshirting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school

I agree with this statement (or both) but the OP said something about younger grades which to me says Kindergarten redshirting.

Right.

OP is talking about first and second graders.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school

I agree with this statement (or both) but the OP said something about younger grades which to me says Kindergarten redshirting.

Right.

OP is talking about first and second graders.

Idk, because I see alot of coaches who want their kid to be an athlete doing it early so they don’t need to worry about doing it later.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school

I agree with this statement (or both) but the OP said something about younger grades which to me says Kindergarten redshirting.

Right.

OP is talking about first and second graders.

Idk, because I see alot of coaches who want their kid to be an athlete doing it early so they don’t need to worry about doing it later.

I will even throw an example out there. The guy who runs Slam City. His kids are double reclasses/redshirts and they ar now in 4th grade.

[Anonymous]

What did you expect? You red shirt the kid so he is more mature and then you wonder if he might feel too mature around his classmates?

Honestly, I hate red shirting. It makes kids who were born in March and April (perfectly legitimate months to be on grade) feel as though they are young and immature. Then parents of those March and April kids start to red shirt. It's a horrible cycle.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school

I agree with this statement (or both) but the OP said something about younger grades which to me says Kindergarten redshirting.

Right.

OP is talking about first and second graders.

Idk, because I see alot of coaches who want their kid to be an athlete doing it early so they don’t need to worry about doing it later.

I will even throw an example out there. The guy who runs Slam City. His kids are double reclasses/redshirts and they ar now in 4th grade.

AAU limits how old you can be and still play in a given grade category.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school

I agree with this statement (or both) but the OP said something about younger grades which to me says Kindergarten redshirting.

Right.

OP is talking about first and second graders.

Idk, because I see alot of coaches who want their kid to be an athlete doing it early so they don’t need to worry about doing it later.

It's not just coaches. It's parents who have dreams that their kids will be more athletic than they were so they redshirt. They may say it's because the kid isn't academically ready but, from the cases (several to 20) that I know of throughout my children's youth, that wasn't the case. These parents wanted their kids to be bigger and more mature for sports. That's all.

So OP, you got what you asked for, no?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids starting kindergarten.

The kind of redshirting that you describe occurs prior to kindergarten. Athletic redshirting occurs closer to high school

I agree with this statement (or both) but the OP said something about younger grades which to me says Kindergarten redshirting.

Right.

OP is talking about first and second graders.

Idk, because I see alot of coaches who want their kid to be an athlete doing it early so they don’t need to worry about doing it later.

It's not just coaches. It's parents who have dreams that their kids will be more athletic than they were so they redshirt. They may say it's because the kid isn't academically ready but, from the cases (several to 20) that I know of throughout my children's youth, that wasn't the case. These parents wanted their kids to be bigger and more mature for sports. That's all.

So OP, you got what you asked for, no?

that says something about the people you're associating with then. I know several, none of of whom did it for athletics. As others have pointed out, doing it for sports is ridiculous since for the more important club activities, it is birth year that matters not grade.