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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, and thank your lucky stars if they aren’t. I’m serious. I have one kid who is super sporty, and another who gravitated to other things. The sporty one is more conventionally popular and maybe high school is an easier ride for him, but the other kid just had so many more cool options and life wasn’t dominated by the inflexibility of sports practices. High school coaches basically own your kid during the season in a way that no other activity seems to do. And it’s not like my kid is going to be recruited at the college level so it feels silly to me to have his life so dominated by a team sport.[/quote]

Any activity undertaken at a serious level will feel hyper-controlled, OP. I'm the poster with the pre-pro music kid, and the lessons and performances and chamber groups and music theory classes, not to mention the orchestra schedule, make for a regimented life. Perhaps the difference is that we're not under one person's thumb. There are multiple teachers and organizations, so it doesn't feel cult-like.[/quote]

I get what you’re saying, but my non-sporty kid was involved in theater, debate, and MUN at competitive levels and never had to deal with the inflexibility of high school coaches like my sporty kid does. Maybe it was just the particular adults she interacted with, but her non-sports coaches and directors were much more understanding about conflicts than my ds’s sports coaches, So doing multiple things was possible.[/quote]

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