Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 20:06     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These responses surprise me- I didn’t totally leave until 10 or so . Age 5, no one left


They surprise me too in the opposite way. Are the people staying at practice the same people who still choose to stay as a drop-off birthday party at age 10?


I’m the PP and I dropped off at parties starting in K unless parent specified no drop off (like trampoline park etc they sometimes want parents to stay until 3rd or so). Maybe because my kids play rec sports only, so the teams have plenty of goofballs etc on them and I don’t want to leave some poor volunteer coach with a team of 10 seven year old soccer players who are rhnning around misbehaving for an hour? I do seem to see travel sport parents drop off much earlier. But those kids are more motivated and serious, and the coaches are paid and have assistants
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 19:37     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
Anonymous wrote:These responses surprise me- I didn’t totally leave until 10 or so . Age 5, no one left


They surprise me too in the opposite way. Are the people staying at practice the same people who still choose to stay as a drop-off birthday party at age 10?
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 19:22     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
At what age did you start loading the car up with baskets of clean laundry to fold while you watch a movie in the car in the parking lot of the evnt? I dreamed of doing this but never did.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 19:21     Subject: Re:What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
I stopped staying when they lasted more than an hour. It also depended on how long the drive was from home. It did not depend on the age of the kid.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 19:19     Subject: Re:What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
Anonymous wrote:Yeah no as a volunteer coach for soccer I am not playing this dumb game with you parents. Ive got my own life to get back to.
And its actually in our rules that you cant drop off and need to be present. Want to walk around the park- sure! Work in your car- great!

Need to take a quick trip to go pick up your other kid, let me know and I need a contact for you. Otherwise, get comfortable.

Does not apply to kids over the age of 9/10. But a 5 year old? GFY.


You sound unhinged. Not a great temperament to be volunteering with little kids. Maybe give it a rest and look into therapy or anger management?
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 19:16     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
Anonymous wrote:For reference my child is doing a sport this season. This is for 5-6 year olds. My child told me after the first practice that another kid, let’s call him Tim, said that his parents left during practice to go home.
This seemed so not okay to me so during the first game that week and subsequent practice, I looked out for Tim’s parents. Sure enough, Dad walked him up, stuck around for a minute or two, then left and came back towards the end of the game/practice.

I brought it up to the coach to see if they knew (my kids been playing with this group of kids for over a year now, so we’re friendly). Coach had no idea and said Tim’s parents did not tell him they were gonna do this.

Coach said he’d handle it.
Seems pretty insane to me to leave a 5 yo alone at practice/game for almost an hour, especially when you don’t know the coach or any other parents.


So you’re saying the Dad dropped him off on time and then… picked him up on time?! How scandalous!!
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 18:39     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
You’re a pig
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 18:08     Subject: Re:What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
2nd or 3rd grade?
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 18:02     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
Too young and also nuts to leave without informing the coach.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 18:01     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
I stopped staying for volunteer run sports programs in third grade. Professionally run programs have different setups and expectations, so I follow whatever is encouraged there.

My kid prefers that I not be there, so I err on that side at this point.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 17:50     Subject: Re:What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
Anonymous wrote:Never. I had a neighbor whose married son Larlo (who lived with her) was arrested for child porn distribution. He was a father of two young kids and his wife used to run a day care in their house. Larlo was an public school bus driver.

I was a volunteer social worker for SA victims. I have seen too many school kids who were raped. There was a school staff in my DD's HS who was sleeping with an underage minor. I knew kids who were turning tricks.

So, nope. Not happening. I didn't leave my kids with anyone but my parents and DH's sister.


Teen with a phone at a public place, I'm ok with but not before 13 or so and we are very careful in other situations.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 17:49     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
Anonymous wrote:7--my kid was swimming for RMSC. Parents were not allowed to watch practice.


depends on the site. You can stay in the building or outside. I stopped at maybe 13? No way 7. Too young.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 17:49     Subject: Re:What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
Never. I had a neighbor whose married son Larlo (who lived with her) was arrested for child porn distribution. He was a father of two young kids and his wife used to run a day care in their house. Larlo was an public school bus driver.

I was a volunteer social worker for SA victims. I have seen too many school kids who were raped. There was a school staff in my DD's HS who was sleeping with an underage minor. I knew kids who were turning tricks.

So, nope. Not happening. I didn't leave my kids with anyone but my parents and DH's sister.
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 17:45     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
These responses surprise me- I didn’t totally leave until 10 or so . Age 5, no one left
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2026 17:41     Subject: What age did you stop staying for kids practices?
Until my kid was about 11, I'd only leave if another parent "had" my kid. One one kid's team, parents were all very friendly with each other and would watch each others' kids so we could run to the grocery store, take a sibling to practice, whatever. But someone would have responsibiity other than the coaches.