What sports have the best kids, parents, vibe?

[Anonymous]

Ultimate frisbee. Such a relaxed vibe and great sport.

[Anonymous]

I have found our summer swim team to be a very nice community.

[Anonymous]

Synchronized swimming. Very girly. Costumes, makeup. Hotels full of girls wearing costumes and makeup. Lots of people performing swimming routines to girl bands and women’s empowerment music. If you like Girl Scouts, you will love synchro!

[Anonymous]

rock climbing team, robotics team if you have a good coach

[Anonymous]

Look, certain sports are known for having terrible parents. In declining order of awfulness: hockey, lacrosse, basketball.

Tennis parents can be highly competitive but they are more underground about it.

Don’t know why but swimming and track parents generally seem nicer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every sport has pockets of supportive parents and pockets of intolerable ones.

This. But in general, rec sports have been wonderful for my kids. We do play soccer, but we have the best teams. Laid back parents, nice kids, it's great. One of my kids played on 2 other teams before this one, and one of those was also great and the other was a complete dud (checked out parents, kids barely showing up bc they played higher level soccer somewhere else etc).

So any sport that has a rec team would be my suggestion.

It is so very hit or miss in rec sports. One of my daughters had a really intense experience with parents and coaches who got into arguments with refs and each other, and the other one had a really fun, relaxed experience in the same sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, certain sports are known for having terrible parents. In declining order of awfulness: hockey, lacrosse, basketball.

Tennis parents can be highly competitive but they are more underground about it.

Don’t know why but swimming and track parents generally seem nicer.

You didn't have soccer on the list, but it should be right up there with hockey (agree though that hockey parents are the worst. Anyone willing to drive their kid an hour to practice at 5am is NUTS, LOL!).

[Anonymous]

Track and field. There are a lot of youth clubs and Ffx county now offers it in middle school.

[Anonymous]

Cross country, pickle ball

[Anonymous]

Field hockey

[Anonymous]

Another for Field Hockey.

[Anonymous]

I know a lot of people gripe about swim team drama, but we have the best team.

I think a lot of it is luck. Go with the sport she likes and hopefully you’ll find the nice community

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, certain sports are known for having terrible parents. In declining order of awfulness: hockey, lacrosse, basketball.

Tennis parents can be highly competitive but they are more underground about it.

Don’t know why but swimming and track parents generally seem nicer.

This is very accurate. First good response

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another for Field Hockey.

Especially at the younger and rec levels field hockey is almost uniformly wonderful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another for Field Hockey.

Especially at the younger and rec levels field hockey is almost uniformly wonderful.

Once you get to the club level with tryouts that result in lots of cuts, parents in all sports start to resemble one another. Everyone is great when their kid will make the team as long as the check clears and everyone gets equal playing time. When 50 girls show up for 15 spots and only 13 of those 15 will really play, things change. I've seen it across multiple sports with multiple kids and it always holds