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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is in early elementary. He is the epitome of a joiner. He prefers club/travel sports to rec because of the structure. Right now, he is playing basketball, soccer, lacrosse and swimming. For awhile, we tried to limit one sport per season. But now swim, soccer, and lacrosse are year round. We thought DS would get sick of a sport or get cut from a team. Some nights he has back to back practices. Most of the sports practice 2-3x a week. How did you balance competing interests and overlapping sports? How do you deal with sports that require year round participation, like travel soccer? We have two other children and our DD is starting to do soccer and gymnastics year round and just joined summer swim team, which has an easy schedule of Sunday practices. But it's a lot. And it is too much even with carpools. When did sports go from being seasonal to year round for first and fourth graders?[/quote]

It is what you make it or otherwise indulge them in.

I would pick one of the soccer, swim or lacrosse to be primary and go back to seasonal/rec for the others... in the DMV swim lends itself better to year around and lacrosse and soccer have decent opportunities for seasonal play so that's what I might try to steer them to but ultimately it would be up to them - pick one for focus and we'll do seasonal on the others.  At some point school homework will pick up and your current pace probably won't be sustainable.[/quote]

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