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[quote=Anonymous]Your kids interests may change by high school.  Most kids do.  Many kids playing soccer since 5 are done/burned out by high school.  Only about 10-20% of the kids that started playing with my son are still playing now at 14.

I have 2 relatives that quit soccer at the start of high school recently and received track scholarships.  Others received academic Scholarships.

School always trumps sports in our house.  My boys have always gotten straight As, but if they started to not have time to get school work done—soccer would be cut back.

You are thinking way too much about this at your kids young ages.  Parents fixated on college soccer are the ones that lose focus and end up driving the love of sport out of their kids.

You take it season by season and always let them be in charge of what they want to do.  The end of every year, my kids decide where they want to play.  If they want to keep at it, etc.  along the way, if I saw them starting to get weary of too much too soon, I changed environments and I steered clear of the overly invested/obsessed parents.

Just let them have fun.[/quote]

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