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[quote=Anonymous]I honestly don't really know what it means to "burn out". I guess it means to just get tired of something, right? So I agree with one of the previous posters that a kid can get tired of something at any given moment. What I do see in my kids and their friends is that kids rarely tire of things that they are good at.  Things are more fun when you have success. So with soccer, it's a tricky situation.  If they don't play enough, will they lack the skill to find that success and want to keep going or will they train too much and just not find the joy or even the time to do it. All I know if that my son started playing organized soccer at U5 and still trains religiously.  Most of his friends train just as hard or harder. Most of his friends are at the DCU/MLS Next/ECNL level. I don't see any "burn out" in sight for him.  My other kid could care less about competing and floats around from rec to rec sport and has "quit" some sports.  He certainly didn't burn out from any of them. He just didn't want to do it anymore.  So for me, I don't listen to people who say kids will burn out from playing to much soccer because they can quit just as easiliy from not playing enough. I don't even listen to the "over use injury" stuff because I still have yet to hear anything tangible about what muscles or whatever soccer players over use compared to a "multi sport" athlete. Basketball, track, lacrosse, volleyball, dodgeball, ultimate frisbee, the ground is lava, tag,...they all run and jump just like soccer players. sometime knees start hurting regardless of what you do. If the kid wants to grind, let him grind. If he doesn't support him too.[/quote]

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