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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think your DH has a limited view of team sports.  I've done soccer, softball, swimming, cross-country, track, and rowing at various levels and by far the strongest sense of team I felt was cross-country, with rowing a close second.

[b]The traditional team sports I did included a crap ton of competition for playing time, irritation with "lesser" players, and coach favoritism. [/b] In the so-called "individual" sports, it was easier to be supportive of each other, maybe because "team" wasn't crammed down our throats in the same way.

tl;dr - your DH is wrong[/quote]

I agree these are a team sports cons, but I also think it's good for kids to experience these dynamics and learn coping mechanisms as there is a good chance you will run into them as an adult too in the working world.[/quote]

Ehhh, maybe.  In small doses, with parents who get it.  But if parents either don’t realize the harms or don’t care, it can end up doing more harm than good.  There are SO many ways to experience challenging interpersonal dynamics and learn from those.  Forcing kids into them without acknowledging them doesn’t help, speaking from experience.[/quote]

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