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dragonwriter on March 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Little League wants all your information

> Age is very important for leveling kids appropriately and keeping them safe

Size/strength and emotional maturity might be, age is at best a very loose proxy for those which fails quite often.

novok on March 1, 2021 | [–]

Doing psychology assesment batteries to rate children's emotion maturity per year is way too much money and work vs just age and normal judgement.

Tempest1981 on March 1, 2021 | [–]

They have tryouts, to get into the more advanced leagues. Maybe they need the opposite, to prevent skilled kids from staying in the beginners leagues.

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