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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD grew weary when the Club coach said that you don’t belong on this team if your goal isn’t to play in college. This was 8th grade.

She no longer plays.[/quote]

Burnout how?[/quote]

She was weary. That’s the only way to explain it. She knew she did NOT want to play in college. Weary isn’t something you want to see in a 13-14 year old, so we left that club and tried a smaller, more fun club. That was a good way to end her soccer journey - making it fun again, and guess what, she’s really blossoming in other activities she never would have the time for if still on the soccer crazy train.

Other signs I’ve seen in other kids: no time to get homework done, no time to spend with friends outside of soccer, no time for family vacations or holidays, fake injuries, real overuse injuries.

DD had a teammate tell her she was hoping to tear her acl so she could quit.[/quote]

A lot of what's being said here is about spoiled kids lacking drive and discipline.
Along with snowplow and helicopter parenting

Not sports burnout

Many of these kids aren't even putting that much time and effort into training. They spend more time on phones and computers [/quote]

Clearly you don’t have a kid playing high level Club soccer. The training regimens are intense.[/quote]

I think some parents wouldn't mind if their kids to quit/found new hobbies. All the endless driving to practices and across states for matches while sometimes working remotely from their cars/outside practice fields isn't necessarily the best life. They get burnt-out, too.[/quote]

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