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Would you prefer for your child to play sports or a musical instrument?
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Anonymous
| Sports! |
Anonymous
| Music! |
Anonymous
A musical instrument because music will sustain you throughout life and being able to play a musical instrument can take away the stresses of life. |
Anonymous
| Music!! It brought me a lot of joy and strong feeling of achievement. Music can be both an individual and group activity. It is also highly competitive. I played in marching band, concert ensembles and solo. I very much felt like part of a team and it was bigger than any sports team at my high school and lasted the whole school year. Many of my close friends were also in band. Plus, I got to travel - my HS band went to Canada and Eurrope for international music festivals. |
Anonymous
Public schools have huge music programs. In elementary and middle school the child can do sports outside of school and music in-school. Big schools have levels of instruction. Do some googles on the conflicts between enforced marching band and those who want to pursue other school based performance options. Nothing seems to have changed: http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=271344&paper=81&cat=180 Students who have gone through elementary and are not beginners are required to march . FCPS I suppose forces anyone who plays a fall sport to choose. |
Anonymous
| I'd like my son to have at least a basic musical education. I think that learning to read and play music is an important skill to learn and an art form that should be appreciated, even if he turns out to have no musical talent (like moi). However, if he wants to play sports exclusively, that's fine with me too, as long as he is happy. |
Anonymous
Definitely sports! The camaraderie, self-esteem, and healthy lifestyle you get from playing sports will sustain you throughout life and can take away the stresses of life. My involvement in sports growing up (and later) has truly shaped who I am. |
Anonymous
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pp here--meant to add that exercise is only one of many benefits of playing sports.
Nothing against music, though--I'd like to be able to play something. I took lessons as a kid but never really loved it, and I think I just don't have much musical talent, although I really appreciate music. I'm sure some of the posters who favor music might say the same thing about lack of interest/talent in sports. |
Anonymous
| I'd love for my son to be more interested in music, but sports are fine, too. It's just that we're more of a musical/theatre-oriented family. |
Anonymous
| Music. I love to listen to music and hate to watch sports, so... music. |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
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Obviously a person's response to this depends on their own experiences. I played sports growing up. I loved it and I was good at it. It made me more confident and was the source of a lot of joy and friendships. I also played an instrument and was in band, for what that's worth. That was fun too, but not the same for me as sports.
So sports, if I had to choose. |
Anonymous
I would prefer that she develop a passion for music and play in orchestra or other ensembles. It enhances your life in unexpected ways -- I don't keep up my music much, any longer, but every time I need to make a speech, I know how to harness that nervous energy and put it into my performance. And, I would prefer to sit through rehearsals and concerts than practices and games 
I would also like her to enjoy using her body and to be amazed by what it can do -- but that doesn't have to be through team sports. |
Anonymous
| Sports. Jocks get more poontang. Unless my son had that lead singer rock star thing going on...then maybe I'd want him playing guitar. |
Anonymous
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I did both, and while I like the idea of team spirit, and physical fitness and all that... I have to go with music.
Sports are dangerous. You can still see the shadow of sand scarred under my skin from epic track wipeouts (I was a hurdler). And then there was the knee surgery. Ouch. And then there was the effect on my grades, when the coach insisted on an extra hour of practice every day (weekends included) for the whole month before State, which was of course also the month before finals. All for what? A couple shiny medals, bad knees and an extreme aversion to anyone wearing a whistle. I wish there were some way for kids to do sports without all the boot-camp attitude. Go big or go home. If you can't run with the big dogs stay on the porch. No pain no gain. It's just so overdone, you know? Sports in America blows right past the fitness and fun, and straight into eye-gouging competitiveness and self-destructive training. Anyway, the music was less angst-ridden, more enjoyable, and has stayed with me much, much longer. |