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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow!  The crazy swim parents didn't take long.

So please tell referees at your kids' kindergarten basketball games that travelling, double dribbles, 3 seconds etc, must be called.  Play with 10 ft hoops on full sized courts...play soccer on full fields, full rosters, with regular goals and the offsides rule.  The swim folks have explained it....  ALL RULES MUST BE STRICTLY ADHERED TO BY 6yr OLDS OR THEY"LL NEVER LEARN.  Please tell your kid's teachers this as well.  Little Timmy misspelled a word on a test in 1st grade.....well, if we don't give him an F, he'll never learn.

Way to grow your sport....or is keeping it small the point?

If you'd been able to make a team in another sport, you'd have understood the officiating analogy.  But hey, at least you had swimming.  [/quote]

Just like 5 year olds have a shorter basket, they swim a shorter distance. But just like 5 year olds are expected to dribble the ball and not just grab it and run with it, kids are expected to swim the stroke they're signed up. If they can only swim freestyle, that's cool. And there, the only thing that's going to get the kid DQed is making forward movement on a lane line, or standing up and walking.

If you're not comfortable with your kid trying to follow the rules of his sport, then don't sign him up for basketball. Just go shoot baskets for fun. Don't sign him up for swim. Just go play at the pool.[/quote]

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