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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah we see this in all the sports/activities that our kids do, the earliest is soccer.

In basketball we started to see the split in levels at about fourth grade and it gets wider every year.

Almost every activity my kids do, their coaches keep pressuring us for a full year commitment and some act like it should be the primary focus in their activities.  And at my kids age/level it's hard to find clubs/programs that will just let them join for just one season in the year.

I just talked to my kids about it the other day.  ie I don't want them to be hyperfocused on something right now, want them to try out different things and be able to be decent at them, but at the same time let them think about what their goals are and we'd be okay if they didn't become some superstar in a particular sport.  And that if it is something they want to do, they'll have to accept the fact that they'll be competing with people that focus on it yearround.  Sp do they want to make that commitment to the activity?  At middle school I'm more willing to let them specialize and that was always partially the plan.  But so far haven't dropped any activities yet but probably need to start looking at some to drop.  Part of the reason why we talked about it was because they had fun in an activity that I was expecting them to drop to make room to focus on the other activities more or at least free up their schedule some.[/quote]

OP here, great points.  my kids dont do soccer but I agree with the 4th grade split for basketball.  its such a young age in the scheme of things.

the other issue i've found is that my oldest(11), basically lost 2 early years of sports when everything in this area was locked down.  That was some prime time to explore and see what interested him.

im worried about burnout.  this was the 1sst year my son did basketball year round and by July he was burnt out and now the coach want a year commitment starting in September.  We declined it so he can do football and LAX and hopefully find the joy in basketball again

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