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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take a look at your high school football, basketball and baseball games. The OVERWHELMING majority of these kids play varsity in multiple sports. [/quote]

This must be a small and remote private school. [b]The unfortunate reality in most communities is that single-sport specialization occurs by middle school. [/b]Which is awful. Even professional NBA and MLB coaches are lamenting the early specialization of today's athletes. People who play multiple sports tend to be better overall athletes and more resilient to repetitive-use injuries. I think the best approach is to simply pretend it's still 1984 and change sports with the seasons and ignore the pressure to specialize early.  [/quote]

And yet the talented multi sport athletes will continue to make the high school teams over the less talented kids who were forced to “specialize” at the age of 7.

I agree with your final point.  Just because everybody else is doing something one way doesn’t mean it’s the best way.

That being said, OP is going the other way.  Her 7 year old isn’t an athlete by any stretch of the definition- he’s a little kid.  Maybe she should consider cutting back to let him play with toys or take a nap or something.[/quote]

Sort of... Our high school has about 400 people per class in a wealthy suburb, and I know of only one boy who is a 3-sport varsity athlete and will play one of those sports in college.  Of those sports, lacrosse is the most competitive in our school and all but the 1 kid I mentioned specialized pretty early and played a lot of club lax. I know of several kids who do two sports, but their second sport is a no-cut sport like cross country, track, or football.   I know of a few girls who play a combination of lax, soccer, basketball, and volleyball.[/quote]

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