Anyone do 3 year olds soccer?

AnnetteWalker

We were at a community thing this weekend and the boys and girls club had a booth. They had some flyers with their programs one for for Mother Goose Soccer.

It is a soccer "team" for 3 year olds and them teams for 4 and 5 year olds.

It is pretty cheap $65 and they practice once a week and have games in the Summer on Sat monrings.

Has anyone done something like this with their 3 year olds?

I am not sure DS had the focus to not tackle other kids.

 

Seattle_JiLLn

I think 3 year olds are too young to actually have "games".... Ben has done Little Kickers since he was maybe 2 1/2 though.  It's more like soccer skills, and now at 4-5 they do little scrimmages at the end of the class... He loves it.  But we did a sports sampler thing last summer at the Community Center where they did a few weeks of baseball, then basketball, then soccer, and when they tried to do "games", it was a disaster.  

WatchPot

we tried it, it was a disaster.  W cried through almost every week and I was so stressed out I pulled him out of it.  Yep, I'm that mom that lets her kids quit.

We'll try again when he's 4. 

AnnetteWalker

Here is what is says about it.

 

Mother Goose Soccer: is an instructional indoor soccer league for ages 3-5 years old.  The purpose of this league is to be fun for kids and their parents. The kids use a NERF type soccer ball and aim towards portable nets inside our gymnasium.  Registration starts in late April and goes through June.

cmcmillan

We did fall soccer last year, so M was 3 1/2.  They do it all on one day, which seems easier for that age. It was an hour on Saturdays; 30 min practice, 30 min "game" word used vary lightly.  It was fun, very comical. M was the kid picking the ball up and running away, because he didnt want the other team to kick "his" ball.

My good friends Y did it on 2 different days; wednesdays 1/2 hr practice, saturday 1/2 hr game. She hated it, said it was too much getting ready, driving, for such a short period of time.

Seattle_JiLLn

Maybe call and talk to them more about the game part? Or see if you can go observe a class?

MelodyFerg

We have an "indoor" soccer league like that in our town and everyone I know that did it said it was chaos.  So we did a program called kidz love soccer instead and LOVED it.  C was 3 last summer when we did it.  It was one day a week for about 40 minutes.  Just skill building.  It was perfect!