My DS 8 does Select soccer, baseball in the spring and fall. He is on the ski team in the winter and has been doing a flag football pod in Dec/Jan when Select soccer has a break from practice. We have an only so we can handle it.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids is asking to play 4+ sports a season.
Basketball, Lax, Flag football, Baseball and tennis. best advice in these situations? Kid is 8. How do we start narrowing down?

with that many it sounds like none of them are serious and all of them are rec teams that have very short seasons. as long as you are ok with all the driving and the small fees, what's the harm? as soon as he starts asking for pricy clubs and clinics is when you have to make him choose.

Agree

Limit the sports with no time limits. Baseball is a total time suck and will monopolize the entire weekend. Without baseball... you and your kid will have a lit more time!

Anonymous wrote:My kids is asking to play 4+ sports a season.
Basketball, Lax, Flag football, Baseball and tennis. best advice in these situations? Kid is 8. How do we start narrowing down?

with that many it sounds like none of them are serious and all of them are rec teams that have very short seasons. as long as you are ok with all the driving and the small fees, what's the harm? as soon as he starts asking for pricy clubs and clinics is when you have to make him choose.

My kid is 17 and until this past year, she did 5 sports. Cross country (varsity), crew (varsity), soccer (formerly travel, now rec), rec basketball and rec flag football. We finally dropped the flag football this year because we did fall crew in addition to fall XC and soccer and a 4th sport was too much. She's my only kid and that's a factor. I let her be the decision maker on what sports she does and at what level. In the past she's done dance, gymnastics, field hockey and track. (And at one point she was on 3 soccer teams at once. Insanity.)

You are allowed to decide how much your kid takes on. It can be a lot.

Anonymous wrote:Your kid won’t even play any of them in high school

So look at what the immediate value is, or short term value. Anything else (play at a higher level, the benefit of school sports for feeling connected, etc) is bonus.