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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in an area that’s really sports focused and my child (7) has been playing in sports year round. He is consistently the absolute youngest on every team as he is a June birthday where it is uncommon to go on time. He’s fairly good (was the absolute youngest for 2 all star sports on the entire roster of 100 kids, had to be selected based on try out or times) BUT the issue is he’s getting down because he just doesn’t have an opportunity to shine playing against so many older (and athletic) kids that often lap him a year since so many kids stay back. When does this situation shake itself out? At what age do they start being assessed by their age or grouped by age and not grade? Little League is the same situation where he is one of the youngest but he’s not playing with kids mostly a year older because they are strict with birthdays. [/quote]

OP I could have written this myself. Thanks for posting- I need to read all the responses. I have a 7 yr old boy who loves sports. Problem is he turned 7 end of June and is playing with kids up to a year older. While he was still physically developing enough to catch, the other kids were already catcjing. Jist as he was thriving with dad pitch, the other kids started asking for kid pitch. Its been really stressful for me to feel like my kid wont have a chance at things when he just needs to be playing with kids who are on the same level developmentally as him.[/quote]

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