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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop worrying about the HS team.

If your kid is enthusiastic about the activity, you can afford it and the logistics aren't too difficult, it's the right choice. If he loses interest and wants to try something else, do that.[/quote]

My problem isn't him losing interest, it's that he wants to do everything. I also don't want him to do 2 sports a season, move to the next 2, and not have continuity. Like... if he plays soccer in the fall on a rec team. Shouldn't he do SOME kind of soccer to keep his skills developing before the following fall?

Or is it ok to just keep cycling through 2 sports per season and only play each once a year?  For example: Fall soccer and basketball, winter hockey and football, spring tennis and baseball, summer swimming and golf, repeat same or similar following year... until when? I just feel like at some point he needs to choose and work on skills. And also the social aspect of continuing on the team with the same kids.[/quote]

My 1st grader is like yours - loves all the things while doing them and wants to do ALL THE THINGS.  We rotate through like you do, not just sports but activities overall.  There's one I keep him in in an ongoing basis because I think its particularly good for him and then cycle through others.  I'd of course let him drop the one if he wanted.  From what i've heard, HS teams are so competitive to get on these days, I don't think its worth eliminating variety and exploration now for off chance he'd make a HS team some day (and i'm not sure i'd want to even do the intensity now needed to make a hs team)  In the last 2 years he's done

Soccer
Tennis
Swimming
Ninja
Pottery
Lego robotics
iceskating
baseball [/quote]

Can you say the one activity you keep constant?

Yes sounds like our kids are similar and I’m having to balance letting him do what he wants vs knowing when to rein it in or encourage him to focus. If it were go to him he would be doing a different activity or two every day, 7 days a week.

It seems like people are mostly saying let him do what he wants and how much he wants until he says it’s too much or he’s not interested. I’m just worried that will never happen because he is a go-until-you-drop busy bee like his dad. [/quote]

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