Parents Talk: When Should a Child Get Involved in Organized Sports?

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In the coming months, we will also be organizing a Parents Council that will help answer some of your questions and offer practical, real world solutions. The council will consist of experts (i.e. other parents) who can speak firsthand about everything from potty training to the best pediatricians to surviving driver’s education with a teenager.

We hope you’ll use Parents Talk as one of the many resources you can find for raising happy, healthy children.

Please take a moment to weigh in with your comments below.

This week's discussion topic:

In yesterday's on Waukee Patch, we featured a YMCA youth basketball clinic for children in preschool and kindergarten. A reader responded, "Basketball clinics for 4 and 5 year olds is crazy. What are you people thinking?"

So, what are you thinking? Is a basketball clinic, or any other organized sport, a good idea for preschool or kindergarten-aged children? Why or why not?