We can't lose if everybody wins.During the Grassroots stages, up to U12, our children are growing at incredible and varying rates and on many fronts. We have to be mindful of their development and environment at home, school, playground and socially. Our children need a holistic approach and attitude from everybody who affects them. Sometimes, people in sport think they are exempt from this, as if they are in a different realm. They're wrong. Very wrong.
Something went off the rails at some point. We demote and discard a kid because they couldn't make a travel team at 8 years old . We accept the " Oct-Nov-Dec" baby theory and believe it as a fact of life and move on. Did anybody ever consider that the systems in place are what caused the late year baby hoopla? When a child is no longer
