Sometimes the work load/schedules do not allow.
Dr. Larson is clearly an exception! Awesome accomplishments in many areas!
One of the risks I have seen is some parents believing their kids are really into something when the kids are really just trying to please the parents. There is a thin line there.
I know of a few cases where the DD was really a standout but didn't stay in softball past the first couple years. One case not even half a season and another case where she just simply told her parents she wasn't playing. And that one was a shocker to the whole local softball community.
I found out later my DD fretted a whole year thinking she disappointed me but it didn't bother me a second. I was still involved with other kids playing.
I believe some get so tied up worrying about "success" that they don't realize what success is. Some turn it into a profession rather than an amateur sport.
To each his/her own, but be careful what you do to your player.
This is true. However, I am sure that if asked she would say that she is not exceptional. Exceptional accomplishments typically involve normal people. The kids who elect not to play or "wash out" in the first year usually do so not due to their inability, but rather by choice. Priorities change and they elect to take a different path, and there is nothing wrong with that. But let's keep it real, it is not because it was an impossible task.