I would just sign the other kid up, maybe for both, and drop the less convenient one.

DCUM is definitely a place where we all have our acts together

This is the OP. Thanks to everyone who provided a helpful reply. And yes- first kid, first travel soccer experience and trying to do right by both kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sign your daughter up before classes fill. How will you explain it to her if she gets nothing because you were waiting on her brother's schedule?

I am with this poster. You're bound to have schedule conflicts with travel. Sign her up. Also be friends with other kids' parents so that you can manage carpool/ride share.

An adult is coming on DCUM to learn Parenting 101?

Eh...if you're new to the time commitment of travel anything and its your first kid, sometimes it can feel like everyone else 100% has their sh*t together. Was more of a reminder that youth activities is more of a village than they might realize.

Games are typically on Sundays but the time varies as does the location. There are also games on Saturdays on occasion—in our experience, maybe 2-3 weekends will have a random Saturday game plus a Sunday game.

There are also tournaments that take the entire weekend. There’s usually one in October over the holiday weekend, and another in December.

I say sign your DD up for her classes and then rent a car, take Uber, carpool or take public transportation to her classes if there’s a conflict with soccer. More families do this than you might think.

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Anonymous wrote:Sign your daughter up before classes fill. How will you explain it to her if she gets nothing because you were waiting on her brother's schedule?

I am with this poster. You're bound to have schedule conflicts with travel. Sign her up. Also be friends with other kids' parents so that you can manage carpool/ride share.

An adult is coming on DCUM to learn Parenting 101?

Schedules aren't posted for another week for NCSL. It's on their calendar on the website.

Anonymous wrote:Sign your daughter up before classes fill. How will you explain it to her if she gets nothing because you were waiting on her brother's schedule?

I am with this poster. You're bound to have schedule conflicts with travel. Sign her up. Also be friends with other kids' parents so that you can manage carpool/ride share.

Sign your daughter up before classes fill. How will you explain it to her if she gets nothing because you were waiting on her brother's schedule?

*playing in (not playing inside)

Do you know what league your team will be playing inside? Ncsl posts schedules mid August and games are Saturday and/or Sunday, any time of the day. Typically one game per weekend though sometimes there is one on Saturday and one on Sunday, and then one weekend where you don’t have a game at all.

I don't understand these posts about "when is XXX schedule coming out?". How we DCUM know? Isn't it easier if you reach out to coach / manager/ team admin to find out?

You are going to be waiting. Could be either day.

Anonymous wrote:We still do not have the DC Soccer schedule for the Fall. I understand it is because of permits. But my poor daughter's ballet/ gymnastics classes are filling up and with one car, we are trying not to commit to a schedule for her until we know his. That clearly is not going to work.

My son is U9 for DC Soccer. Any predictions as to when the games will be -- Saturday or Sunday? Mornings or afternoon?

Surely you jest and have absolutely nothing to do

We still do not have the DC Soccer schedule for the Fall. I understand it is because of permits. But my poor daughter's ballet/ gymnastics classes are filling up and with one car, we are trying not to commit to a schedule for her until we know his. That clearly is not going to work.

My son is U9 for DC Soccer. Any predictions as to when the games will be -- Saturday or Sunday? Mornings or afternoon?