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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you need to make sense of it, exactly?

It's clear you wouldn't live this way - which is fine - and that your friend has already made up her mind. That's also fine.[/quote]
But why? What is it about sports? If it was literally any other thing, I feel like parents would justify a reason why their child would be ok missing it. People justify their kids missing an entire week of school to take a vacation, eleven ways to Sunday, but can’t justify letting little Billy miss his peewee baseball championship game? Why? He’s six, he will be ok and forget all about it by the time he’s having an ice cream cone on the beach. [/quote]
Billy is 6, he’s going to forget everything eventually. So will your kids. Did you take them anywhere you thought might be fun or interesting? Why? Why bother, when he will forget.

I think people usually do this because the adults enjoy it, too. It wasn’t at 6, but I was surprised by how much I, who is completely uninterested in EVERY sport, enjoy watching my kid play basketball (and he’s only ok and they lose a lot). I can only imagine how fun it would be if the parent already genuinely liked the sport and their kid is good and the team is advancing. For many families, that’s a heck of a good time for all members, and not a hardship to forgo other activities. Hope that helps.[/quote]

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