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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is one of the things I hate about this area. Not so much for college admission reasons, but just not being able to have the experience of representing their school in a sport that they have really enjoyed growing up, when they are still pretty darn good at it but not elite. I am seeing my hometown friends’ kids being able to participate in the sport of their choice even if they are not an elite athlete, or even be able to try a new sport in middle or high school. Where I grew up is not rural by any means, but not a major metro area. I really don’t think it’s a uniformly good thing for kids to grow up in a hyper competitive environment. I struggled with self-esteem when I was younger and later on built self-confidence through being able to be successful at something. I think growing up somewhere like this would have felt very discouraging to me and I may not have persisted at the thing that I ended up being really good at. I wish I thought about this kind of thing more when my kids were younger, but I was so busy with the day-to-day of raising little ones. And now it feels like we’re stuck with this unless we really had to move for a compelling reason. I’ve tried to prepare my middle schooler about how hard it is to make most of the sports teams so it’s not such a disappointment when they get to high school.[/quote]

Yes. All of this! There are so many advantages to raising kids in this area, and yet so many disadvantages I did not anticipate and that put my mom guilt and anxiety into a tail spin. [/quote]

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