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[quote=Anonymous]There are so many reasons, OP.... okay... off the top of my head...

How do you know the child didn't in fact pick the sport? Sometimes a child wants to sign up and then is bored and the parents makes the child finish the season to teach the values of honoring commitments/finishing a job/thinking carefully before making a decision, and so on.

How do you know the child isn't nervous or anxious--expressing these as boredom or unhappiness with the sport--and the parent is trying to help child overcome it. We had to do this with every single activity with one of my children for YEARS--almost as a form of therapy--until he was able to get enjoyment out of anything.

How do you know the parents don't believe that the child will eventually love the sport? One of my kids spent his first two seasons of soccer playing in the dirt and now he is obsessed and plays travel. I don't even mean that he is exceptional or will play division 1 but rather that we waited him out and it became his passion.

How do you know the child would choose anything else?Maybe the parents believe in some form of physical activity and are trying to see what sticks. Maybe the child needs a different group of friends and the parents are seeing what works.

I know that there are some crazy parents out there but most of us are trying to raise healthy, balanced kids![/quote]

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