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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really depends on how much your kid loves the sport.

My kid is a baseball fanatic - it is his life’s great passion, and has been since he was about 4. Aided and abetted by a baseball loving dad who coached tball and played hours of catch. Still - with all that love - we still didn’t do travel until 12, and then it was a B level local travel team. Kid didn’t ask before then, and we didn’t offer. I would have had a hard time saying no if he had asked.

He is going to college next year and will play. Over all of this time he has never said he didn’t want to go to practice, never did more than grumble to himself about 5am tournament wake ups. He has driven this the whole time.

I’m glad we enabled his baseball playing - it’s what he loves, and makes him happy and gives him motivation to get up and out the door in the morning. He still lights up when he looks at the calendar at 7am and says “it’s a baseball day!”[/quote]

Thank you for the perspective. I like the idea of waiting until one's kid expresses the interest on their own.[/quote]

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