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Anonymous wrote:I have heard about alot of high-level kids who train before school. I am curious, is this set up by the school, club or privately by a few kids and families?

I had no idea until I set up an IG account for my kid. We are on the 2nd team and a few kids will do some stuff before ES (ES has a late start). But our top team (a few are very high level) kids put in some work before school and the parents post it to IG. It is mostly, in home fitness stuff and some ball mastery stuff in a living room, basement or workout room. And some of those kids are faster, better than the other kids; it is apparent in person. My kid watches cartoons and eats cereal...but yeah, some kids are being beaten into shape by the parent before school. Not sure of the consistency, but for ES, there is time to put in 20-30 min of work easily at home. And no, this is not something the clubs have anything to do with.

I really wonder how that's going to turn out in the long run if it's not being driven by the child... which it almost certainly isn't despite what some parents might say. I can't imagine it would occur to most ES age kids to do structured training/practice before school if a parent didn't put the idea in their head.

IMO if it isn't the kid insisting on doing the early morning workouts in addition to the usual practices after school, they probably aren't meant for college level or other elite level sports. They will stop doing it when someone isn't hovering over them to get it done. The drive has to come from within.

Aren't parents putting the idea of reading and other academic activities in kids heads?
Or we should let kids spearhead that on their own too, or they aren't meant for college or the workplace

Are you placing sports at the same level as academics?

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard about alot of high-level kids who train before school. I am curious, is this set up by the school, club or privately by a few kids and families?

I had no idea until I set up an IG account for my kid. We are on the 2nd team and a few kids will do some stuff before ES (ES has a late start). But our top team (a few are very high level) kids put in some work before school and the parents post it to IG. It is mostly, in home fitness stuff and some ball mastery stuff in a living room, basement or workout room. And some of those kids are faster, better than the other kids; it is apparent in person. My kid watches cartoons and eats cereal...but yeah, some kids are being beaten into shape by the parent before school. Not sure of the consistency, but for ES, there is time to put in 20-30 min of work easily at home. And no, this is not something the clubs have anything to do with.

While some parents let their kids eat sugary cereal while watching crap on TV before school so that they come to school expecting to be as stimulated but of course they’ll just be bored and disengaged.

Judgment can go both ways. You already have an insta account for your second team child in elementary school so you’re not really one to talk.

Half my kids ES class have IG accounts... it was for her friend group creep. Also, keep that car on the road, seems like you drove up onto the sidewalk just to run me over with that comment there! Nice one, hope your judgy rant makes you feel good about yourself!

I think your judgey posts make you feel good about your own parenting.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard about alot of high-level kids who train before school. I am curious, is this set up by the school, club or privately by a few kids and families?

I had no idea until I set up an IG account for my kid. We are on the 2nd team and a few kids will do some stuff before ES (ES has a late start). But our top team (a few are very high level) kids put in some work before school and the parents post it to IG. It is mostly, in home fitness stuff and some ball mastery stuff in a living room, basement or workout room. And some of those kids are faster, better than the other kids; it is apparent in person. My kid watches cartoons and eats cereal...but yeah, some kids are being beaten into shape by the parent before school. Not sure of the consistency, but for ES, there is time to put in 20-30 min of work easily at home. And no, this is not something the clubs have anything to do with.

I really wonder how that's going to turn out in the long run if it's not being driven by the child... which it almost certainly isn't despite what some parents might say. I can't imagine it would occur to most ES age kids to do structured training/practice before school if a parent didn't put the idea in their head.

IMO if it isn't the kid insisting on doing the early morning workouts in addition to the usual practices after school, they probably aren't meant for college level or other elite level sports. They will stop doing it when someone isn't hovering over them to get it done. The drive has to come from within.

Aren't parents putting the idea of reading and other academic activities in kids heads?
Or we should let kids spearhead that on their own too, or they aren't meant for college or the workplace

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard about alot of high-level kids who train before school. I am curious, is this set up by the school, club or privately by a few kids and families?

I had no idea until I set up an IG account for my kid. We are on the 2nd team and a few kids will do some stuff before ES (ES has a late start). But our top team (a few are very high level) kids put in some work before school and the parents post it to IG. It is mostly, in home fitness stuff and some ball mastery stuff in a living room, basement or workout room. And some of those kids are faster, better than the other kids; it is apparent in person. My kid watches cartoons and eats cereal...but yeah, some kids are being beaten into shape by the parent before school. Not sure of the consistency, but for ES, there is time to put in 20-30 min of work easily at home. And no, this is not something the clubs have anything to do with.

I really wonder how that's going to turn out in the long run if it's not being driven by the child... which it almost certainly isn't despite what some parents might say. I can't imagine it would occur to most ES age kids to do structured training/practice before school if a parent didn't put the idea in their head.

IMO if it isn't the kid insisting on doing the early morning workouts in addition to the usual practices after school, they probably aren't meant for college level or other elite level sports. They will stop doing it when someone isn't hovering over them to get it done. The drive has to come from within.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard about alot of high-level kids who train before school. I am curious, is this set up by the school, club or privately by a few kids and families?

I had no idea until I set up an IG account for my kid. We are on the 2nd team and a few kids will do some stuff before ES (ES has a late start). But our top team (a few are very high level) kids put in some work before school and the parents post it to IG. It is mostly, in home fitness stuff and some ball mastery stuff in a living room, basement or workout room. And some of those kids are faster, better than the other kids; it is apparent in person. My kid watches cartoons and eats cereal...but yeah, some kids are being beaten into shape by the parent before school. Not sure of the consistency, but for ES, there is time to put in 20-30 min of work easily at home. And no, this is not something the clubs have anything to do with.

While some parents let their kids eat sugary cereal while watching crap on TV before school so that they come to school expecting to be as stimulated but of course they’ll just be bored and disengaged.

Judgment can go both ways. You already have an insta account for your second team child in elementary school so you’re not really one to talk.

Half my kids ES class have IG accounts... it was for her friend group creep. Also, keep that car on the road, seems like you drove up onto the sidewalk just to run me over with that comment there! Nice one, hope your judgy rant makes you feel good about yourself!

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Anonymous wrote:An instagram account for a kid in ES? Yikes!

There are hundreds of thousands of them. Coaches do look at them and a lot of the clubs & coaches only post info to IG.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard about alot of high-level kids who train before school. I am curious, is this set up by the school, club or privately by a few kids and families?

I had no idea until I set up an IG account for my kid. We are on the 2nd team and a few kids will do some stuff before ES (ES has a late start). But our top team (a few are very high level) kids put in some work before school and the parents post it to IG. It is mostly, in home fitness stuff and some ball mastery stuff in a living room, basement or workout room. And some of those kids are faster, better than the other kids; it is apparent in person. My kid watches cartoons and eats cereal...but yeah, some kids are being beaten into shape by the parent before school. Not sure of the consistency, but for ES, there is time to put in 20-30 min of work easily at home. And no, this is not something the clubs have anything to do with.

While some parents let their kids eat sugary cereal while watching crap on TV before school so that they come to school expecting to be as stimulated but of course they’ll just be bored and disengaged.

Judgment can go both ways. You already have an insta account for your second team child in elementary school so you’re not really one to talk.

Half my kids ES class have IG accounts... it was for her friend group creep. Also, keep that car on the road, seems like you drove up onto the sidewalk just to run me over with that comment there! Nice one, hope your judgy rant makes you feel good about yourself!

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Anonymous wrote:An instagram account for a kid in ES? Yikes!

There are hundreds of thousands of them. Coaches do look at them and a lot of the clubs & coaches only post info to IG.

Anonymous wrote:An instagram account for a kid in ES? Yikes!

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard about alot of high-level kids who train before school. I am curious, is this set up by the school, club or privately by a few kids and families?

I had no idea until I set up an IG account for my kid. We are on the 2nd team and a few kids will do some stuff before ES (ES has a late start). But our top team (a few are very high level) kids put in some work before school and the parents post it to IG. It is mostly, in home fitness stuff and some ball mastery stuff in a living room, basement or workout room. And some of those kids are faster, better than the other kids; it is apparent in person. My kid watches cartoons and eats cereal...but yeah, some kids are being beaten into shape by the parent before school. Not sure of the consistency, but for ES, there is time to put in 20-30 min of work easily at home. And no, this is not something the clubs have anything to do with.

While some parents let their kids eat sugary cereal while watching crap on TV before school so that they come to school expecting to be as stimulated but of course they’ll just be bored and disengaged.

Judgment can go both ways. You already have an insta account for your second team child in elementary school so you’re not really one to talk.

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard about alot of high-level kids who train before school. I am curious, is this set up by the school, club or privately by a few kids and families?

I had no idea until I set up an IG account for my kid. We are on the 2nd team and a few kids will do some stuff before ES (ES has a late start). But our top team (a few are very high level) kids put in some work before school and the parents post it to IG. It is mostly, in home fitness stuff and some ball mastery stuff in a living room, basement or workout room. And some of those kids are faster, better than the other kids; it is apparent in person. My kid watches cartoons and eats cereal...but yeah, some kids are being beaten into shape by the parent before school. Not sure of the consistency, but for ES, there is time to put in 20-30 min of work easily at home. And no, this is not something the clubs have anything to do with.