Both of my boys started in Kindergarten and 1st grade. We approached it week to week, I asked if they wanted to sign up for a tournament before I actually signed them up. When they said they were done for the year - they were done. They still continued practicing they had just had enough of the tournaments!

Advice from a Mom by observations made for the past 7 years of wrestling for parents:

Do not drop your six year old off at practice - stay at practice until you are sure that they are mature enough to handle practice - the coaches are not there to babysit your kid - they are there to coach and they can't do that when they are chasing a six year old down the hall!

Be at matside to hug your kid - win or lose - after the match. I have seen way too often very young kids being yelled at by their parents for losing - we have all seen this! It's bad enough to see the older kids getting yelled at but seeing a little kid crying is too much!

Lastly, remember that they are very young and the focus is to get them to high school wrestling - if you burn them out and make wrestling no fun at 6 then they will turn to basketball!