very well put by smokeycabin,

Its not so strange that the majority of the people than want to have a 6&U state are the very same parents that fall into that category of wanting to push their kids too hard. I know it can be hard to step outside of your own life and see what you are doing but it is something that everyone needs to learn. To a parent in this situation their though process is something like "well im doing this for the good of my child, and the more he wrestles now and the more I push him now, the better he will be in the future" Also these parents think that they know what their kid wants to do and they will either force them to do it or make them feel guilty for not doing it. Im sure I'll get plenty of critisim for this remark but I think many of the other coaches in this forum know about what im talking about, cuase they have seen parents in thier own club do it as I have seen parents in mine. This issue hits me very hard personally becuase I have a little nephew who going to turn 5 right before next season starts and I wanted to start him last year despite the reservations I have always had against kids starting so young. But I know I will be focusing all my coaching on him next year and it scares me that I might push him too hard and not realise it. Unless I feel he could really place wrestling with the 8&U's there is no way im letting him wrestle at state. Whereas the popular opinion amoung 6&U parents is that it would be more fun for their kids to go to state and get waxed than compete in their own division at state.