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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am clearly in the tiny minority

Whatever the age cutoff next year, my kid just shows up and plays in their current or new age group/team

I believe its called life changes. Something that they'll have to deal with in life going forward [/quote]

Yeah.  I get what you are saying.  What age is your kid?   Because I think that makes a pretty big difference in how this is dealt with and the emotions that go along with it.   I am now going through this twice.  The first time around was when everything was switched from previous SY type cutoffs to birthyear.  That was when my DS was playing U10.  He had a great team and we were looking forward to things, but suddenly when the teams changed to BY, my son was only one of 3 kids left on the team.  All the other kids were moving "up" from what they thought was U11 to U12.  There was a ton of scrambling to find them places.  It was really a pretty big disruption because he had a pretty good group of kids and parents.  While we obviously had no choice to move age groups, we weren't thrilled about it.   That's my selfish opinion.

At the time, my DD was playing U-Little rec so it didn't matter for her, but now she is playing U17 ECNL.  She's not going to be impacted at all because she's an early January B-Day and is in a good spot on her current team.  But, there are plenty of players that will be impacted and it will be interested to see how things fall out.  The grin it and bear it makes sense, but sometimes is just tough to do.   Good Luck to all!  
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If it changes, it changes and there's nothing you can do about it

Tell the kids the truth and deal with the reality. Regardless of age.

If you get a new job or new house you'll easily tell the kid about those life changes [/quote]

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