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[quote=Anonymous]I have a colleague who has three kids in three separate travel leagues. We ran into him at an event yesterday, and he commented that from there, he was leaving to take his son a state over for a competition, and that his wife was across the state at a different competition, and his in-laws had the third kid for the weekend so she could attend her game. He said he hasn’t had a weekend as a family since Christmas. I said, “Don’t you dream of an idle weekend?” to which he replied, “Well, at least they won’t turn into teens who do drugs!”  I didn’t even know how to reply to that so I said nothing, but it was such an odd reply.

Growing up I wasn’t in sports and didn’t touch drugs. My DH was big into sports and dabbled in high school and college. Our kids have played sports casually, but haven’t continued, and I don’t fear they’ll gravitate towards drugs because they aren’t at football practice.

It’s just so weird that it seems my colleague thinks there are only two options. I’m curious, do most ultra competitive sports parents believe this? [/quote]

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