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Northshore October 2025
Kristen Perkins will never forget the overwhelming day she took her young son to a local youth soccer program for the first time. At only about three years old and surrounded by strangers, he quickly became overwhelmed. “He really had a lot of challenging behaviors in that first class,” Perkins remembers. “I could feel the eyes of all the parents and grandparents on the sidelines judging us, and all the kids didn’t really know what to do with it.” They ended up leaving early, and Perkins called her husband from the parking lot. They wanted their son to play and love sports just as much as they did, but this program clearly wasn
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