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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We restricted our kids to one or two practices a week less than they want to go to until they reached 14. My then 10 year old wanted to practice 4-5 times a week, but he was restricted to 2-3 times due to his club soccer schedule. After fall and spring soccer, he was allowed to go 4-5 times a week the month before sc and lc age group champs, but he would have gone 6 times a week if he was allowed. Restricting practices kept our swimmers engaged and eager to go to practice. Every kid is different. Some kids will get burned out with 3 practices a week and some will practice twice a day if allowed.

Burnout doesn’t happen overnight. Keep an eye out for reluctance, making excuses, and an unhappy kid at the end of practice. you need to have club coaches who care about keeping young swimmers happy and focused on having fun and insist on real breaks between short and long course seasons.  Our coaches ask us to let them know if our kids do not want to come to practice and seem at risk for burning out. [/quote]

What club lets a kid start attending more practices for just a month? Were you paying for 4-5 days all year and just not using it? Most clubs don’t give that kind of flexibility because they don’t have the lane space. And aren’t SC age groups champs at a time when spring soccer is still in full swing? None of this makes sense for the DC area.[/quote]

Not in the DC area. Short course champs are in early march and long course champs are in July. Due to the long winter here, club fall soccer season ends by early november and then spring season starts again in mid March and ends in May. From nov-Feb, our team does indoor training, futsol, and an away tournament in December, and my kid was allowed to opt out for jan and Feb.

The younger swim groups have 5 practices offered a week, the middle group has 6, and the older groups have 8. Our dues are quarterly, which covers all the practices whether we use them or not. We happen to have enough pool space and coaches and it allows flexibility for kids with other commitments. One year, my kid had soccer M/W/F in the fall and then T/Th/F  in the spring and could still swim 2-3 times a week on the off days and days when soccer was cancelled due to field conditions.

What kind of club allows kids to come more often for a month? You answered it- clubs with lane space, which we have. Also, clubs that are more understanding and willing to accommodate kids who also participate in band, robotics, volleyball, hula dancing, whatever. [/quote]
DP - it’s all lane space.  No club can be “understanding” when they don’t have lane space to flex.[/quote]

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