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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three soccer practices a week will not kill you or give you lifelong health issues. [/quote]

You have not looked at some of the concussion studies have you? Soccer is one of the high risk sports. Not to mention the problems that come from the knee and ankle injuries that players are having due to playing too much at an early age. Every sport has its risk. Soccer has a higher incidence of concussion related injuries and injuries that can leave a young person with early arthritis and the like from over training. It might be different then an eating disorder, but they are also serious.

Parents with kids in travel soccer need to be looking for programs where the coaches are worried about the kids well fare, teaching proper heading techniques, and doing their best to reduce the likelihood of injuries. That is harder then one would think because the travel teams Coaches make their money by coaching winning teams and the Coaches, and parents, take it very seriously.

The reality is that any sport that is played with any degree of seriousness is a massive time commitment for parent and child and can easily lead to a variety of health injuries that the parents need to be keeping an eye out for. And the earlier we push kids into a year round sport, and ballet is very much a sport with all of the physical demands, the more likely it is the kids are going to have life long health impacts from said sport.

I think that it is crazy that kids under high school are allowed to head a ball in soccer, the necks cannot handle the weight and force safely which increases the likelihood of concussion, kids are allowed to check in hockey, or play tackle football before high school. Those are all high risk activities for bodies that are not ready for them. I also think that it is crazy that body types and issues are being pushed on 8 year olds in ballet. [/quote]

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