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That is great. But you missed my point. You ARE complaining about being stressed out. You are a young kid. You should be enjoying your young years, not being stressed out. Somethings gotta give. Like I asked, baseball should be done with soon?? Then you can relax a bit I hope.
Baseball is usually a spring/summer sport--
so I would think it is barely starting? I know it hasn't started here yet.
My son's school is also 7 hours long, and back in the dark ages when I was in school it was even longer (8-4). Atheletics here do tend to demand huge amounts of time--my older son's school had practices 5 days per week: starting an hour after school (the school would not let them start earlier--they wanted students to be ble to conference or get tutoring with their teachers as needed) until as late as 9pm (sometimes out earlier). They were not allowed to work on homework during practice, even when they were not out in the field playing. They were expected to stand (no sitting) and watch. Except in rare cases, the top players were the only ones who actually were out in the field very often. This was freshman varsity (open to anyone who wanted to sign up). Both the junior and varsity teams practiced ALL their players most of the time--being on hte sidelines was merely an opportunity to rest and recuperate before going back out. Needless to say my son lasted about 6 weeks. His school started at 7 (zero hour), he wasn't home until 8 or 9 and then several hours worth of homework.
My younger son has no interest in atheletics, and after seeing the strain it put on our older son did not push it past recreational sports when he was younger.
As has been said, kids need time to be kids. There is value is simply resting and "vegging out."
The practices are starting in a couple weeks.
