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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's an issue at all to keep a 5 year old out of activities. My kids have never made lasting friendships from sports teams. They are friendly and play with others during the season, but we've never carried that relationship beyond the team. I don't think sports teams are good for making lasting friends in this area.

Regarding talent, you could sit out one year and be fine. But, yes, you will be behind other kids who play continuously. But, at that age, if he starts playing again next year, and he is truly somewhat talented, he'll pick it back up really easy. I think you have until about age 9 to try different sports before needing to stick with one if you intend to try and make high school teams.[/quote]

This may be true for rec sports but once your kid does travel, you'll see how close they become with those friends.   FWIW--my kid is on a competitive travel team in a sport they'd never tried till 3rd grade.   Sports are good but sitting out K year is fine.[/quote]

It will also ensure that your kid has no friends who aren’t travel sport friends which makes for a dull kid and locks them into that activity. It also ensures that the family builds their life around the kid and their activities which is oh so healthy. Oh and if you have another child they will have to: join the same sport (for efficiency sake), be dragged every weekend to their siblings activity or grow up with a family that is rarely together as a unit because of Larla’s travel team (especially if child #2 chooses a different path). [/quote]

You don't need to do travel (abd all the money and time it requires) to still enjoy and be good at a sport.

DD, now 11, has been playing rec league soccer since Kindergarten. She likes the standard weekday practice + local Sat game b/c it allows ger to still do other things. And so do I (especially since we have subsequent kids in tow).

I don't get the hype around or the presumption that your kid will play travel-level sport just b/c he's registered to play a rec league in kindergarten. [/quote]

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