By learning that they can do many different things they will not get the attitude that they are locked into one thing in their life and that is their role. They will learn that they can do a multiple of things, and that there are different ways to do different jobs. Eitzen and Sage said that when children are playing on their own again they have less rules, and fewer specialized roles. Everybody will play everywhere to be like all the stars they look up to. Moving up in Divisions You don't have to be a genius to know that some kids are a lot better than others in sports.
Some young athletes are even better than everyone their age.
As a group, we are against the move-up of players more than one age group. We feel that if one child dominates his age group it will neither be fun for him nor will it be fun for the people playing against him. Thus, he should be able to move up a level. On the other hand though, we are fully against any player moving up more than one age level. We think they will then be playing with other children who hold a different social and cognitive level than that child and it would not be a healthy environment.