Anonymous wrote:My U12 boy mentioned the other day that he might not go back after this season (if the season even resumes) and mentioned trying rec basketball instead because rec is 'more fun'. He has been playing lots of basketball outside and the soccer balls have been gathering dust in the garage.

My U9 boy is THRILLED to not have practice or games and is not excited about the online training which will commence next week. In retrospect I should never have put him in travel - he is the youngest on the team and I am fairly certain the main driver for him wanting to play travel was the fact that his big brother plays. I was planning on pulling him out once the spring season ended anyway.

if your kids are so happy about not playing soccer... then maybe it wasn't for them anyway

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Anonymous wrote:If it were up to me, yes.

My boys are 6th & 8th grade U12/U15.

I hope the older one goes to HS next year and finds better things to do with his time.

I am most likely moving younger one to a less time intensive team whenever this starts back up.

Loving not driving all over the f-ing place.

You don't know how lucky you are. Trust me, there are worse things a high school kid can do with his time than play a sport.
#kindafeelingbadforyourkids

Whatever. I was a D1 soccer player, my kids are athletic. They are loving playing on their own right now.

This is us too. Son loves travel soccer and basketball too. But has put more time into hoops lately

But, they are also smart as hell and this isn't a 'career choice'. I let them choose if you haven't read the above...and my younger one is liking basketball more and more anyways.

They have had 5 days a week of this since they were very young.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m laughing that an unexpected outcome will be my kid becoming a better basketball player by the end of this because we have a hoop and there’s not much else to do.

Mine too! He was outside last night at 9pm shooting hoops for an hour. After already shooting hoops for an hour earlier.

Make him a kick wall. https://www.kickwalls.com/

Anonymous wrote:Lots of kids end up quitting even without corona. There’s a bit of a “once you’re on the train it’s hard to get off” effect, and you rarely have time to stop and ask yourself if it’s what you want to be doing, either as the kid who is playing or the parent who has committed to taking their kid all over the mid Atlantic for games, younger kids perhaps in tow. My eldest quit the whole thing in eighth grade, my youngest stopped in about fifth grade and it was a relief. By then (I have multiple kids) I understood better that it was a real trade-off and that we should encourage our kids to really think about what they enjoy and how they want to spend their time. One kid switched to baseball, another to tennis. We had said they needed to be doing a sport but it could be a recreational sport. My kids ended up having a much better sense of what makes them happy and when they need to change directions, and that spilled over into other areas, from moving friend groups to choosing summer jobs. I worried my oldest would regret dropping soccer and wish he had stuck with it and played high school soccer, but he chose a totally different fall sport and made some great friends and had a terrific time.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m laughing that an unexpected outcome will be my kid becoming a better basketball player by the end of this because we have a hoop and there’s not much else to do.

Mine too! He was outside last night at 9pm shooting hoops for an hour. After already shooting hoops for an hour earlier.