What’s the most extreme thing you’ve done to support your kid in their sport?

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Anonymous wrote:Bought a horse.

But isn’t a pet too?

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Paid off a highly connected sports recruiter and passed DC off as a top-ranked ambidextrous quadriplegic fencer

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Organizing family vacations around sports schedules. Arranging for DC to come home early from a school trip for a meet.

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DD at 5 really wanted to do hockey. I knew it was a phase. I froze my butt off for a year for skating lessons, hockey skating lessons, learning to play hockey lessons. Not to mention driving all the way to Ashburn when we live in Fairfax. Only for DD to be like yeah I'm good just when she was starting to show progress.

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Waking up at 4 am and driving to practice

Only vacationing in Aug

Spending 2 hrs everyday at practice

$$$

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Limiting all vacations and trips to August, because my kid doesn't want to miss.

Swimmer! 🤪

[Anonymous]

Hello, fellow swim parents.

- Planning our August travel possibilities now

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Spending over $100,000 a year on training and tournaments.

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Anonymous wrote:Relocated my son’s elbow in the middle of a wrestling match and sent him back in to finish the match.

wow

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I’m about to call mine transgender and have him compete against girls in track and field. Who will know his real “gender identity” when it’s unverifiable and based purely on his say so?

I’m a soon to be divorced single mom and I’m done playing fair when scholarships are on the line. My boy is very fast and has gone to states, but he’s just outside medal contention with the boys. He’s going to freaking dust the girls.

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Spend time is not extreme.

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Does this count? DS10 needed to pass a swim test to enjoy his week long day camp. He had to sit out one summer and was upset to miss the fun (camp required basic swim/treading water, water safety).

I got off season, one on one lessons at a swim school but the only time was during the school day. I picked him up early every Wednesday for over a month - I think I told the school he had a standing appointment.

DS an older teen now and loves the water - he’s never gonna be a competitive swimmer but at least he’s safe and can swim.

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Sold our SFH and moved into a townhouse (in DD's sport, this is not unprecedented).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bought a horse.

But isn’t a pet too?

Horse person here. My question is—just one horse? Lol

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Where do I start? Travel all over the country, drive my kid an hour each way to practice three times a week, pay a large amount of money for fees…..give up a large percentage of my spare time spectating. But, my kid loves it, is pretty certain to play D1 at college and loves having me watching. Not too much to ask in the overall scheme of things.