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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a high level young kid go from travel to rec last year.  The biggest thing is level of play.  If your kid won’t get frustrated by kids that have no idea what is going on, then it is okay.  The coaches are so much more supportive, never yell, all around way better than the big club coaches.
We also asked to play up a year.
Soccer also isn’t kids primary sport so it makes it way easier with schedule conflicts to be in rec.[/quote]

While DS prefers soccer over everything else, it’s not his only sport. Flexibility and lower stress when missing practices and games is my biggest driver in wanting to go back to rec. 
regarding letting my child decide, that is not an option. He has decision-making paralysis, and he cannot make decisions like this. I have to ultimately weigh the pros and cons and make this decision for him. While my husband definitely has a say, I do all the transportation and scheduling so it’s ultimately my decision. 
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Yeah that is definitely why your husband doesn't mind staying with travel :) Something that always helps me is to go back to the basics of what I really value/my goals as a parent. For me personally when it comes to physical activity it is structured more around: raising kids who are able to find a variety of physical activities that they enjoy, hopefully that get them outside as much as possible. Have fond memories of playing with teammates, make friends. Move their body. It is also really important to me though that they have enough down time, that we're still able to have family dinners on enough of a regularly occurring basis, that we can do family weekends away to mountain bike and ski. Clearly travel doesn't align super well with a lot of that so I'm bias. I can totally see how another parent's goals/values would look really different and align well with travel. But the point is to think about what your goals are as a parent long term, it helps with the decision. Kind of pulls you out to the 5000 foot view. [/quote]

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