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[quote=Anonymous]Lots of kids end up quitting even without corona. There’s a bit of a “once you’re on the train it’s hard to get off” effect, and you rarely have time to stop and ask yourself if it’s what you want to be doing, either as the kid who is playing or the parent who has committed to taking their kid all over the mid Atlantic for games, younger kids perhaps in tow. My eldest quit the whole thing in eighth grade, my youngest stopped in about fifth grade and it was a relief. By then (I have multiple kids) I understood better that it was a real trade-off and that we should encourage our kids to really think about what they enjoy and how they want to spend their time. One kid switched to baseball, another to tennis. We had said they needed to be doing a sport but it could be a recreational sport. My kids ended up having a much better sense of what makes them happy and when they need to change directions, and that spilled over into other areas, from moving friend groups to choosing summer jobs. I worried my oldest would regret dropping soccer and wish he had stuck with it and played high school soccer, but he chose a totally different fall sport and made some great friends and had a terrific time. [/quote]

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