Regrets spending so much money on kids’ activities

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not wrong and no one is working against me personally. And they is the people who run these activities. As I said you would change your tune if it was your kid

Please do call them and ask if they are conspiring to keep you out? Report back. I 'like bet 95% would help you. They love kids and community.

[Anonymous]

Why are you trying to argue and why do you keep saying source? And it is true if this was your kid you would complain too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not wrong and no one is working against me personally. And they is the people who run these activities. As I said you would change your tune if it was your kid

Please name one activity owner that is working against you? Most are neighborhood owned and operated. No one is trying to get rich and keep you out. That is a ridiculous concept. These are neighborhood small businesses, even the chains like Little Gym, are locally owned. The costs are reflective of overhead. If you live in the DC Metro, the costs are rent, insurance, labor, and sky high workmans comp insurance. There is no budget line for keep out your kids. It is endemic to the area. Rec centers and the ymca offer free classes to those that need assistance.

[Anonymous]

Music instruction is pricey but if you can afford it, I think it has value for the rest of their lives.

Some sports can be done relatively cheaply if you avoid the options that have the kids travel all over creation. choose those options.

WHen they get to HS age - they can opt for school sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you trying to argue and why do you keep saying source? And it is true if this was your kid you would complain too.

Source? Is calling your bluff. Prove it or it's just fake news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not wrong and no one is working against me personally. And they is the people who run these activities. As I said you would change your tune if it was your kid

Please name one activity owner that is working against you? Most are neighborhood owned and operated. No one is trying to get rich and keep you out. That is a ridiculous concept. These are neighborhood small businesses, even the chains like Little Gym, are locally owned. The costs are reflective of overhead. If you live in the DC Metro, the costs are rent, insurance, labor, and sky high workmans comp insurance. There is no budget line for keep out your kids. It is endemic to the area. Rec centers and the ymca offer free classes to those that need assistance.

i gave you sources and I never said anyone specifc was working against me. I really don't understand why or how you don't think activity costs have gotten out of control? But whatever I guess you'll never get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not wrong and no one is working against me personally. And they is the people who run these activities. As I said you would change your tune if it was your kid

Please name one activity owner that is working against you? Most are neighborhood owned and operated. No one is trying to get rich and keep you out. That is a ridiculous concept. These are neighborhood small businesses, even the chains like Little Gym, are locally owned. The costs are reflective of overhead. If you live in the DC Metro, the costs are rent, insurance, labor, and sky high workmans comp insurance. There is no budget line for keep out your kids. It is endemic to the area. Rec centers and the ymca offer free classes to those that need assistance.

i gave you sources and I never said anyone specifc was working against me. I really don't understand why or how you don't think activity costs have gotten out of control? But whatever I guess you'll never get it.

What sources? Actual links from credible outlets that support you claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not wrong and no one is working against me personally. And they is the people who run these activities. As I said you would change your tune if it was your kid

Please name one activity owner that is working against you? Most are neighborhood owned and operated. No one is trying to get rich and keep you out. That is a ridiculous concept. These are neighborhood small businesses, even the chains like Little Gym, are locally owned. The costs are reflective of overhead. If you live in the DC Metro, the costs are rent, insurance, labor, and sky high workmans comp insurance. There is no budget line for keep out your kids. It is endemic to the area. Rec centers and the ymca offer free classes to those that need assistance.

i gave you sources and I never said anyone specifc was working against me. I really don't understand why or how you don't think activity costs have gotten out of control? But whatever I guess you'll never get it.

PP is trying to get you to understand why the program costs are what they are. It's a reflection of underlying expenses - rent, labor, and insurance being the biggest, field space another, depending on the sport.

[Anonymous]

I get that, I get very annoyed when people act like kids re somehow doomed without all these activities. Amd it does amuse me that so many don't think all these activities are too expensive.

[Anonymous]

I mean thousamd just to let your kid play a sport or another activity,? I don't get how people don't think its ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean thousamd just to let your kid play a sport or another activity,? I don't get how people don't think its ridiculous.

Because when I do the math based on the number of coaching hours my kid receives from his club sport, the cost makes sense to me given the expenses above. Whether that fee is worth it is up to the consumer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you trying to argue and why do you keep saying source? And it is true if this was your kid you would complain too.

Source? Is calling your bluff. Prove it or it's just fake news. [/quote

I love how I have answered all of your questions, but you have yet to answer even one of mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you trying to argue and why do you keep saying source? And it is true if this was your kid you would complain too.

Source? Is calling your bluff. Prove it or it's just fake news. [/quote

I love how I have answered all of your questions, but you have yet to answer even one of mine.

Not PP, but where are the links to back up your claims. Maybe I missed them but I am truly interested in how you have come up with the assertion. It seems unlikely to me that these tiny activity based businesses are raking it in simply to keep anyone out. Could you please cite your sources with real data? I would like to make sense of your claims.

[Anonymous]

There have been no links. I don't think she understands what it means to site sources.

[Anonymous]

Look i don't have time to pull up all sorts of links. But, it's not that hard, all you have to do is Google rising cost of youth sports and there are several articles. As I said before mostly from New York Times and TIME magazine. Not sure why don't believe me