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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm someone who would never do club/travel with my kids so I can't say for sure. But, I think it's for a status symbol or college resume building. Maybe parents are trying to live through their kids.[/quote]

Wrong. I used to say I would never do travel/club. My oldest was on the good side of average as an athlete. But then my younger one naturally excelled and took sports seriously from an early age. In second grade, most kids, as another poster said, are literally there for the snacks. Or because their parents make them do sports. They don't care about the game or learning or winning or anything. When you have a kid who does care--a lot--this gets super frustrating for them. We waited until 5th grade because I had been really against it, but had we not moved to travel in 5th for her primary sport, she would have quit entirely. She was miserable in her sport in 4th grade. She is now in 8th grade and for the first time we are talking about whether she wants to play in college. That was never the goal for us. [b]I would still say 2nd grade is early, but especially if those kids are second or third kids in their family, I can see how families would go in that direction.[/b] [/quote]

This is definitely a factor.

We have friends whose kids all do the same sport. The youngest has grown up playing with older siblings, so is REALLY skilled compared to most same-age peers.[/quote]

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