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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the main point is no matter what age or level if your on a team your making a commitment to your teammates and coaches. teach your kids to fulfill them.. if they don't like don't put them on the team again. if its just for fun take your kid to the park and play with them. but if your on a team you owe it to the team to not only show up but give your best effort. not saying you have to be the best but you should demand your child give his best. if not everyone suffers. team sports is about learning and competing at whatever level. hence the word sport. take your kids out to play for just fun it requires no commitment to others [/quote]

I think that you are missing the point that the sense of "team" at 8 years old is overstated and not necessary. You need a "team" to train how to play the sport but each kid is there for their own fundamental skill building not for team success or camaraderie. Psychologically most kids at that age are all in the developmental stage of "me and my ball" and the concept of "team" has very little meaning to the child. If you simply understand that at these ages all the kids need are a cohort of players where they can share the experience of learning the skills necessary to play as team later on. The only commitment a parent should have is to their kid and not a set of other kids. Other than making sure there are enough kids to play a game and run a proper training session the group of kids are secondary.

You are placing cognitive/developmental attributes on children based on adult sensibilities. I stated earlier that I do not remember my elementary age teams. I remember the experience, but I do not associate the concept of team until my middle school years. In a couple of weeks your team will have no recollection of Timmy missing practices and just playing games. And it would be good if you forgot about it sooner than a couple of years. [/quote]

But a 7 or 8 year old kid who attends every practice and tries might quit at the end of the season over being benched so the kid who never came to practice can play

Given that a kid can make a tremendous jump in baseball once size, maturity and hand eye coordination catches up, writing off that kid who might not be that good as a 1st or 2nd grader in favor of the early bloomer who might drop rec little league for soccer or who might not be a standout by 5th or 8th when growth spurts make a big difference in ability is a bad policy for coaches, teams and programs.[/quote]

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