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[quote=Anonymous]Your kid is involved in the wrong sport, and you, as a parent, are not doing your job.

Kids have talents/abilities/interests, and a big part of a parent’s job is to help kids identify what those are, and work to develop them.  Take some obvious examples; if you had a daughter who was going to be six feet tall, then your approach in youth sports would be to focus on sports where her height is an advantage.   Sure, maybe she loves gymnastics as a 7 year old, but that’s not going to work well at 17.  Maybe your kid is not fast enough compared to other kids.  Get her focused on other sports where foot speed is less important.

My daughter played high level youth soccer from 9-18 and then 4 years of college.  Over the years she had a number of soccer teammates who shifted to other sports and excelled.  1 ran x-country for a Big10 school.  2 swam for SEC schools.  1 skied for a  Colorado school, 1 played lacrosse for a Big10 school.  Her best friend over the years (and still a good friend now) played off and on with her on teams.  She was a very good athlete but too slow for high level soccer teams.  She stuck with it and played small college, but would be the first to say that she should have been a softball player.  Her average speed would have been no big deal in softball.

Realistically assess your daughter’s athletic abilities and where she will likely be after her growth spurts.  Then get her involved now in sports where she can try things out.

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