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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is saying kids should not play 2 sports.

What they are saying is that signing up for 2 sports when you know you will be missing all practices and just popping in for games now and then, is utterly unfair to everyone else on the team, even if that team is just rec.

The debate is coming in response to to the poster who said they had one travel soccer kid on their rec team who attended zero practices and missed a ton of games.

At that point, there is no point in bothering to play on that rec team. The parents need to quit being selfish and commit to what they can commit to instead of signing up for everything just so they can brag about how many sports their kid plays.[/quote]

Says the parent of the non-athletic kid.  Not everyone is cut out for sports.[/quote]

Many of the stars at 7 or 8 (really in elementary) are not necessarily the stars in older elementary, middle school or high school. Some are, but not all or even many (when you are talking about 7 and 8 year olds).

A lot of being a star at that young age is being physically bigger than the other kids. A lot is having parents who will say yes/drive/pay for everything. A lot of it might be peers who are just slow starters.

One of our neighbor kids was a daisy picker when he was little, a day dreamer when he was 6 to 7, and the kid just playing because his friends were doing it in 3rd.

In 4th, he grew a bit and everything clicked. He started hitting almost every at bat and made the all star team that year, a level above all the kids his age who were the top player at 5 to 9 years old.  Fifth he improved even more. If he keeps going that way, the 8 year old bench warmer might end up being one of the high school players.[/quote]

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