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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there any travel programs for 5-year-olds? My kid's rec team just isn't cutting it, and we don't have travel yet at that age.[/quote]

You shouldn't have travel at that age :roll: .[/quote]

This thread will have a lot of newbies to soccer and travel soccer. So no reason to be snarky. [/quote]

I was assuming this was satire.[/quote]

I wasn't because it is indicative of this area that starts formal education and workbooks in Kumon and Kahn learning centers at age 3 so they can be 'bored' in Kindergarten and really not learn to love 'learning', i.e., so parents can brag they are reading before everyone else even though long-term studies show workbooks and worksheets that merely teach rote memorization have the opposite effect these parents think they will have and these kids get outpaced by 3rd/4th grade kids who started in a play-based approach whose brains expand more organically.

It's the same with these parents that think if they push more and more soccer structure to their children at the earliest possible ages their kids will end up far ahead of all of their neighbor's kids.  No--same concept--they kill the love of the sport and it's about them not their kids. Kids that started more organically and had lots of free pick-up play to be creative and just have fun---not in a clinic at preschool ages--also avoid burnout and develop into more creative players.

Parents in these high-income, high-achieving areas think they are doing/paying the best for their children and all you see is overuse injuries by 13/14 and kids dropping out of the sport.  It is always to try and one-up 'all of the competition'.   It really is a pissing match between parents.[/quote]

European soccer schools don't begin until age 6 at the earliest and limit sessions to 2 days per week in the early years.  They still only have 3 sessions and a game in the pre-teen/teen age groups.  They also have a much longer trajectory in mind for their players.  They don't stop and drop out as early as players in the US.  Kids that truly love the sport will gravitate towards playing and practicing on their free nights--granted it hasn't been forced down their throat.[/quote]

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