Scheduling and other sports
I have an 8U boy who is just starting “travel” hockey. They practice for one hour twice a week Monday Tuesday, and have one jamboree a month. He also does stick handling once a week for 45 minutes and does skating lessons once a week for 30 minutes.
He was doing in-house rec hockey before this travel season and at the end of the 8U season the rec director moved him to 10u and they have practice Fridays and weekly games on Saturday.
He is also starting soccer but doesn’t really care for it… 1 practice a week with game on most Saturdays .
My question is,
should we have him just do travel with the stick handling and skating…
should we add in soccer so he can do a different sport…
should we add in rec hockey so he can get more time playing hockey which he truly enjoys.
Do we try to squeeze in travel, soccer, and rec hockey?
I have an older son who pretty much specialized in soccer from a young age and now it’s super hard to add in other sports because we’re in too deep with soccer.
I also don’t want to burn out my hockey kid, but don’t want him to feel like he’s specializing in hockey so young…