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NW Missouri | It starts in 3rd grade here. Our town is ate up with football (when I was in high school we had 45 kids on the sidelines but still played 8-man because it would be harder to dominate and win state if we switched to 11-man).
I'm not anti sports at all, but I am anti knocking heads together at 8 years old. We told our son he couldn't play until Jr high, and so did the parents of some of his good friends. Then those parents all folded, leaving our son as the only one in his friend group that wasn't allowed to play. He's about to finish 6th grade now and is pretty sure we have ruined him athletically, socially, mentally, financially, etc. Luckily, I am his parent not his friend, and I am not going to let his whining change my mind. He can start knocking heads together next year - that's plenty soon enough.
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Youth tackle football
