"Separation Season"
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Anonymous
Nothing like sitting on couch for 2 months looking at screens then getting injured in September trying to go 100% in week 1 |
Anonymous
| Techne app, two weeks of soccer camp. Stating active generally. |
Anonymous
Why do you think a kid not doing formal soccer training is sitting on the couch doing nothing for 2 months? How sad that your child's default is tiktok on the couch if you don't sign him up for paid soccer. |
Anonymous
Because they’re telling on themselves. I bet the parent is a tyrant and the kid is lazy. |
Anonymous
| My kid is a little younger than who OP is probably asking about, but they have been playing in one of the top leagues for their age. My kid has done some camps and trainings at the places that get mentioned here, including some things that are “invite only”. I do not appreciate their marketing tactic of making kids and parents feel like they’re falling behind if they don’t sign up for X Y and Z all summer. It’s preying on people’s worries and seems to be very effective among DMV parents. I was oblivious to all this until about a year ago when my kid started to show some promise. Now if I stay during one of the trainings I feel stressed out just listening to the parents talking. They are so damn intense and for what? None of our kids have hit puberty yet. I don’t know if I am cut out for this. I was a D1 athlete with parents who paid little attention to what I was doing other than driving me there. I wish we could go back to that being the norm. |
Anonymous
Amazing speculative hypothesis |
Anonymous
Lazy kids usually imitate lazy parents. |
Anonymous
Nice bromide. Would be great if it was true. Call me back when you have 2 or more kids and their similar genetics, and same home environment create wildly different kids. |
Anonymous
3v3 or 5v5 are like $40 a player for a day of Competitive football. How is that a money grab? |
Anonymous
Because that parent has spent over $5k worth of personal “free time” organizing pickups for their kid so they want to shame you for not being them and taking advantage of cheap, organized pickup that may come with a medal. All of my kids play. Only one likes to “separate” during the summer. My kids that don’t train get passed by others who do. They really don’t give a $#!+. My kid that does train during the summer, passes others and separates. I really don’t care either way. |
Anonymous
I agree with both of you since in my household one kid takes after the lazy parent and the other takes after the driven self motivated parent. |
Anonymous
All 3 of our kids are different personalities. None are lazy or lack self motivated drive. They don't know different based on household lifestyle since birth Same way lion cubs learn to hunt |
Anonymous
| Nothing more embarrassing than the “building in silence” IG posts. The hype machine needs a tune up… |
Anonymous
| Building in silence? |
Anonymous
Shhhhh! Things are being built. |