Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding me? I grew up in NoVA and played D1 soccer 1988-1992 and we were always up early on Sundays. In fact, we gave up going to church for Sunday soccer games. WAGS was huge and we traveled every holiday weekend and summer for tournaments, regionals, etc.

This area has been a soccer hotbed for decades.

8am and rain for kids is no big deal and not crazy.

Field space is limited games start at 8am and go all day.

Anonymous wrote:This has become the dumbest thread in this forum and that says a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:If my kids sleep in past 8:30, they are ill. This is abnormal.

I guess all of my kids were abnormal because they went to bed @8pm on Saturday didn't wake up until 10am on Sunday morning when they were between 7 and 12 years old. One is currently playing soccer at UCLA and the other one is currently playing for Penn State.

I thought the recommendation is at least 11 hours of sleep each night for kids between five and ten years old, no? Kids should sleep in on both Saturday and Sunday to make up for lost time on weekdays, right?

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Anonymous wrote:No matter how late my 7 year old goes to bed, she always wakes up at 7:30am.

Children's Pediatricians recommend that a 7 years old child needs at least 11 hours of rest every day. That's not healthy at all, unless your child go bed @7:30pm.

Anonymous wrote:Unlike in Fairfax County where the oldest kids go to school first, in Loudoun the youngest ones do. My 11 year old is up at 6:15-6:30 everyday. And she does not go to bed before 9. Let's not lame soccer for something the school system does too.... 11 hours is a bit unrealistic for any working family who isn't eating dinner at 5 PM....

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Anonymous wrote:I live in the Mclean Franklin Sherman Elementary School neighborhood. This morning on my normal walk from my house to the Starbuck for coffee, I already see lot parents with young kids, age 7 to 10 from what I can tell, are already at the grass field right next to the school for morning soccer in the rain at 8am in the morning. I can only imagine that there will be more kids at 9 and 10am. I played D1 soccer at Ohio State University from 1990 to 1994 and I don't recall being up that early on Sunday when I was 10 years old.

Not sure why kids have to be up so early in the morning for soccer.

What time do these kids normally go to school?

Anonymous wrote:I live in the Mclean Franklin Sherman Elementary School neighborhood. This morning on my normal walk from my house to the Starbuck for coffee, I already see lot parents with young kids, age 7 to 10 from what I can tell, are already at the grass field right next to the school for morning soccer in the rain at 8am in the morning. I can only imagine that there will be more kids at 9 and 10am. I played D1 soccer at Ohio State University from 1990 to 1994 and I don't recall being up that early on Sunday when I was 10 years old.

Not sure why kids have to be up so early in the morning for soccer.

Anonymous wrote:No matter how late my 7 year old goes to bed, she always wakes up at 7:30am.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my kids sleep in past 8:30, they are ill. This is abnormal.

I guess all of my kids were abnormal because they went to bed @8pm on Saturday didn't wake up until 10am on Sunday morning when they were between 7 and 12 years old. One is currently playing soccer at UCLA and the other one is currently playing for Penn State.

I thought the recommendation is at least 11 hours of sleep each night for kids between five and ten years old, no? Kids should sleep in on both Saturday and Sunday to make up for lost time on weekdays, right?

Anonymous wrote:If my kids sleep in past 8:30, they are ill. This is abnormal.