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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We quit soccer when our son couldn't play with his classmates. Great Falls Reston soccer would not allow DS to play with his classmates in first grade because he was born in 2012 and they were born in 2011. They were all 6 at the time, none of them were going to have a birthday during the season, and they were in the same first grade class. This was the rec teams not the pre-travel group. DS decided to add a second season of baseball because he really liked baseball and could play with his friends.

I get that there needs to be age brackets and the like but the cut offs at such a young age, without any opportunity for allowing some movement, is a bit ridiculous.

There are a number of sports that are available at an early age. Baseball and softball are available starting as early as 4 (blastball or t ball). Flag football starts early, heck I know kids playing Pee Wee tackle football at 6. Lacrosse and the like are all available.

I do think that kids drop out off sports that they are playing for fun and exercise when they start moving to 2 practices a week or 2 games a week and the time commitment starts to increase.

The pressure to play travel ball in a fair number of sports is crazy. As more kid leave for travel teams at an earlier age, there are fewer kids to play rec ball and rec ball becomes less fun.

We wanted DS to continue with soccer but the idea that he cannot play with his friends was a killer. [/quote]

If you'd signed him up anyway, within 2 weeks he'd be playing with his friends again.  Because at 6, that's about how long it takes to make friends, at most.

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