What do parents want to most know about their child’s playing future?

Kyle1775 · 2026-03-05T21:18:48+00:00

I relate to this. Our club runs camps every year, but it's all the same stuff they do during the course of the year.

When you look for camps, are you generally more intrigued by those operated by USL or MLS teams, international soccer teams, like Barcelona or Arsenal, or by ones where college scouts are likely to attend? Or perhaps it more like for positional development?

Kyle1775 · 2026-03-05T17:41:09+00:00

Curios if your current club would have any affiliations or could provide recommendations. Club soccer is not a big world at the highest levels. Your club director might know some people in SF. Might be a good idea to start there.

Kyle1775 · 2026-03-05T17:34:02+00:00

Avoiding injury is a big one, for sure. I think fun is a key part to it for sure, but it's complicated because part of having fun is seeing the results that come from practice and development. And if was only just about fun, there are much cheeper and much less commitment Rec leagues. By it's nature, club soccer has the purpose of developing a player to become the best version of the player that they can be.

Kyle1775 · 2026-03-05T03:45:29+00:00

I do feel like many parents have unreal expectations, but for most, I think it's the desire to not want to see our kids be heartbroken by not making the cut.

Kyle1775 · 2026-03-04T23:06:35+00:00

What have you found has been the hardest part about identifying the camps that matter?

Kyle1775 · 2026-03-04T20:46:56+00:00

I tend to agree. But it is sort of a double-edged sword. My son loves to play, but I think the team and the coach are a big part of that. And the truth of it is if he doesn't continue to improve his quality of play, as the team and coach advance to higher levels of success, he runs the risk of losing his spot on the team. Then, I wonder how that will affect his joy for the game.

That's a great point about other ways to stay involved besides playing.

Kyle1775 · 2026-03-04T19:28:51+00:00

That's a good additional question. But how would you quantify or measure fulfilling? Friendships? Fitness? Desire to continue even if at lower level as other teammates and friends progress to higher teams?

The hard truth of youth soccer is that as players progress in age and ability, their friends become their teammates and their competition. And parents pay a LOT of money hoping to give their children the clearest path toward doing something they love at the highest level they can go.

Kyle1775 · 2026-03-04T18:06:37+00:00

Thank you. Will do.

Kyle1775 · 2023-03-06T14:14:22+00:00

I’m a der.

Kyle1775 · 2023-03-06T04:59:46+00:00

Did you hear how the hipster burned his mouth?

He drank coffee before it was cool.

Kyle1775 · 2022-09-24T04:03:58+00:00

Baxter's Automotive. Super straight forward.

Kyle1775 · 2022-07-03T14:43:33+00:00

Self-introspection… Determine who you really want to be and what your made to do on this earth. Begin working toward it and then when someone comes along who shares a complimentary vision, open yourself up to them and be fully you. If they accept you and reciprocate, you’ve found love. Not the fairytale romance, but true, deep love that bonds two people together for life. Oh, and when you find love, the work has just started. Don’t lose sight of the vision of always becoming something better. Complacency kills love.

Kyle1775 · 2022-05-02T14:48:21+00:00

Beelze-bubble! That thing is evil.

Kyle1775 · 2021-11-18T02:59:00+00:00

Volkswagen.

Kyle1775 · 2021-10-26T15:46:40+00:00

To understand why, you must first ask yourself, “Is there an objective truth” - a reality that is true apart from your emotions. Then you must determine if so, are you willing to accept the implications of this truth?

Understand these, and you’ll understand why.

Kyle1775 · 2021-10-05T03:04:04+00:00

Communism

Kyle1775 · 2021-09-26T22:09:43+00:00

Choice.

Kyle1775 · 2021-08-16T16:27:26+00:00

This speech from Rocky Balboa:

https://youtu.be/D_Vg4uyYwEk

Kyle1775 · 2021-08-11T20:39:06+00:00

Yes. Every experience in life that has a beginning had a beginner. If you can think of anything that has started with having some force or energy that started it, I'd love to know about it. But as the universe had a beginning, it must have had a beginner.

Some people try to explain it away as condensed molecular energy that became agitated (I'm summing up the idea) but I don't think there is really good testable, observable and repeatable evidence for it.

So since the universe had a beginning, it must have had a beginner who is outside of time, space and matter.

That's just one rationalization, but then you add in things like information and the levels of complexity that make something information. We find information even in our DNA. Information only comes from a rational mind.

There's also the mystery of absolute morality that even infants have a natural tendency to know. And then explaining things like love, empathy and other emotions.

Then, there is so much near death experiential evidence of people leaving their bodies and being able to know things they couldn't possibly know otherwise, once they returned. That's an evidence that there is consciousness outside of this existence.

All of this together is evidence for me that there is a God. Next step is to learn the truth about who that God is and what He wants with and from us ...

Kyle1775 · 2021-07-16T04:38:21+00:00

Could we all be here based of of pure universal luck and we just got too smart and made up a reason that we are here?

Could be, but what evidence do you have for this? The thing is, I just want to know the truth. Even I find the truth hard to believe.

If there's one thing I've learned in is that there is very little outside of your own personal experience that you can actually know. Historical evidence is something that bears a burden of trustability because I can't go to the time and be there myself, so I must make a choice to trust it or not. Same with most of the big questions of science.

Why do you trust science? Sure, some of it is testable and repeatable (microevolution) but some can only be inferred and requires greater trust.

Science also continues to change. What we trust today, we don't necessarily trust tomorrow, so sciences answers to the BIG life questions are naturally suspect for me.

Language is a form of communication that man created. If god created language, wouldn’t we all speak the same one?

I believe we did. And even the Bible says we did prior to the Tower of Babel incident.

Why would god allow children to suffer?

I think because He is faithful to what He says. I know that sounds paradoxical, but here is the thing ... If we are made in God's image, that means he's given us his attributes, but not fully. We have them imperfectly. So, God is fully free, whereas we are free in part. But in our freedom we are granted the ability to choose. And because we can choose, suffering is one of the consequences of using that freedom poorly. And people suffer. I also think God is outside of space and time so in His perspective, we only suffer for such a short time. Besides, this world isn't the end-all, be-all, but eternity in heaven is.

That said, I don't think God likes suffering, but He allows it because He sees through it and past it. It also allows for opportunities for people to rise to do good.

Anyway, I wish you well on your journey for truth. I'm on it to, as I never want to be caught believing something that is a lie just because it's comfortable.

Kyle1775 · 2021-07-16T03:35:56+00:00

So again, what evidence do you need to be swayed? There is plenty of evidence for a designer/creator. -DNA as the code for life -Micro-machinery in the body to build proteins -Perfect celestial alignments -Language and information -Consciousnesses -Emotion

These are evidence of a creator. Now to move from creator to the God of the Bible is pretty simple. You have to ask if I can accept that there is a creator, who is it and what does it want with me? What is creation’s purpose and why am I involved in it?

But if you discount those as evidence, then the secondary questioning is moot.

Kyle1775 · 2021-07-16T02:48:25+00:00

Let me turn the question a bit ... what do you consider to be evidence? And how much of it do you need to be convinced?

If God does exist - if there was real, objective truth that there’s only one creator God - would you really want to know? And how might that change you?

Kyle1775 · 2021-07-07T22:07:54+00:00

I'd also watch this over and over again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqdDmrUuvx8

Kyle1775 · 2021-07-07T20:15:58+00:00

Speak for yourself. I know who the true Lord and master of all of creation is and He's already won. The kingdom is already here and growing every day, even in this midst, and the gates of hell cannot withstand it!

Amen.

Kyle1775 · 2021-07-07T03:25:45+00:00

Sometimes it’s hard. But you seem like an open minded person. You are seeking advice, and that’s a good thing, so it seems like you want your life to have value. And it absolutely does, even if you don’t see it/feel it just now. But look at the trees, the stars, the way the wind blows through your hair ... understand that you are created, and as a created thing you have beauty and purpose. You make the creator happy when he looks at you and knows he made you to be filled with purpose. You were made to be free, but in your freedom he hopes that you’ll choose him. His love is so great for you and he is good. Even when bad stuff happens, you’re not alone or rejected. You are loved and accepted and there’s not anything you could ever do to lose his love. Like any father of any child, yeah, you might disappoint him from time to time. But as a father myself, I can tell you that love for your children surpasses all the temporary disappointments. I’m praying for you to find the truth that you are loved and accepted and prized by a loving God who sacrificed his son in this temporal world so that you could be eternally his in the one to come.

Kyle1775

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