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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Based on my child, I would wait a couple years. She made travel in 6th grade/WAGS. The next year she moved to CCL. You have to give up a lot of other activities, play dates, etc. to do travel and it can be hard for kids. [/quote]

I am pulling back with my kids next year too.  They are 9 and 11.

We used to have grass fields.  Things would get cancelled.  There was more off-season downtime.  These kids go year-round 3 days per week with little break.  Turf allows the show to go on no matter the weather.  [b]There is zero time to do other things.  If you have smart kids with a variety of interests you don't want them to give everything up and close doors to other things[/b].

Once the kids are older and can consciously commit--it's wiser.  There are a lot of soccer burnouts in this area. There is also a lot of coaching that does the opposite of building a player's skill and individuality.

Either find a less intense club for the early years or continue with rec and some training.[/quote]

I will offer a different perspective and would say for the most part it depends on the kids.  My kid loves to play, practice and compete in the games.  He has made some close friends on his team and I with some of the parents.  It offers the hour of exercise a day and also a social outlet.  I dont feel it takes anything away from our normal activities.  Depends on where we go to play we make a day of it.  Sometimes we have relatives or friends that live closer to the match location so sometimes we spend a night somewhere else which kids seem to enjoy. We still make it to church, family events and commitments. This year I asked my kid if he was sure he wanted to play...we could always go back to rec and he is still all in.  Plays on non practice days outside with friends and weekends and they always seem to want to play soccer.  I encourage other sports which he enjoys but not enough to want to commit to.  If the time comes he gets tired of it so be it.  We can move on to other activities.  Again my experience just sharing.

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^^^  Same Experience Here ^^^  Soccer doesn't take away from our family activities - we all love it.[/quote]

Another fellow traveler here.  I never played soccer growing up, and am not sure if I ever watched a soccer game before I met my future husband.  Twelve years into organizing most weekends around our kids' soccer schedule (and travelling the world to catch EPL and World Cup matches), I wouldn't change much about the journey.

I will say that I have been worried off and on through the years about the issue in the bolded language above, especially for our child whose intellectual abilities far exceed her soccer talent.   Prior to her senior year, when I started reading about the college application process and realizing all the standout extracurriculars a lot of ambitious kids have, I thought a lot about how she could have been entering and potentially winning science competitions or maybe even art prizes if she weren't devoting so much time playing for her middling club team.  In the end though, the college admissions worked out well, and her peers with the same stats and more impressive academic and artistic ECs didn't do any better. She's adamant that she would have been a less happy person and less able to handle the grind of a rigorous HS schedule if she didn't have soccer as her outlet.  She's looking forward to playing club soccer in college as a stress reliever and bonding activity. [/quote]

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