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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are all your kids? I'd just sign your kid up for Rec soccer. If she is better than her grade level, and she was born in the fall (Oct-Dec) see if she can play up a year. If by 3rd grade she's doing awesome still and is very interested, maybe look at other teams to join. But honestly, travel soccer in elementary school is mainly around just to make money off over eager Type A parents. You played 3 sports yourself, let your daughter explore some. Don't worry about being The Best At Soccer in the 1st grade.[/quote] OP - thank you! This is a very reasonable approach. DD wants to try basketball in the winter. But then another parent mentioned that she really should be playing winter soccer to improve her skills. I don't have the bandwidth to have her play 2 sports in one season. I have a 4 year old, 7 year old and 9 year old. They all play one sport per season, oldest two do tutoring, girl scouts, church classes and both elementary aged kids are in an academically rigorous catholic school. I don't know how much more time I have. DH and I both work full time with no nanny or family support. [/quote] For every parent who says "you have to do..." there are at least 10 parents who are not doing those things and there kids are thriving. Is your goal professional soccer for her? Or just to have fun and learn to play? Or somewhere in between? My kids play soccer, they love it. We do Rec only. They are 10 and 7 and have lots of fun. If they aren't life long soccer players, or don't even play on the high school team, that's FINE with me. There are lots of things to do! But travel teams make everyone think that paying thousands of dollars a year is the ONLY way for your kid to excel. Its' maybe one way. But some kids or families get so tired of it, they stop doing it. Save all of that for middle school, if your kid is super passionate. Then they can work year round to get better and see where they go. Being the best at age 9 is so silly.[/quote] I have kids in middle and high school so my perspective might be different. I have a middle school kid who loves basketball. He started late (upper elementary vs age 6) and had no skills training. Compared to the kids who have been playing travel and AAU and doing training for years, my kid is way behind. He spent much of elementary playing basketball with his friends after school, got MVP of his basketball rec team, played ok all stars, etc. My middle school child is mad at us for not putting him in training earlier. He is trying his best but it is difficult to catch up. Even kids who did do the training and played travel and AAU can get cut from high school teams. My other child plays tennis. That child has been playing tennis since preschool. If another kid dabbled in tennis playing once a week, it would be hard for that child to compete against my child who played for 10+ years almost daily. Even though my kid played a lot, compared to the more elite players in high school, it feels we didn’t train enough. This is a very competitive area and it isn’t the way it was for us when we were in high school where you can just make the high school team if you are athletic.[/quote]
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