post-traumatic sports trauma:)

[Anonymous]

If any of you were highly excelled in a sport---top travel teams, star player, etc...do you want your kids to go into the same sport?

Both my young kids are showing great aptitude for the 'family sport' (my brother even played Professional), but I find as the older one is at the age of travel I am having weird visceral reactions to the whole thing coming out of nowhere. It's like all these deep-seated emotions bubbling up and I don't want him to go through the same crap. My husband is like 'WTF'??? I can't even stand to go to these events and see these people. I grew up in the same area as well so there is the 'culture' I know. Almost everyone at some point--for me it was late teens---my nephews around 15-16, they leave with a bitter taste for the sport.

I really was hoping my kids would choose a sport that I was absolutely clueless about.

I have a friend that was a star swimmer that feels the same way. Anyone else?