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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting sucked into "travel" sports when they were really a money-making situation (think B teams). The problem was that, my kids liked playing sports, but weren't amazing. Yet, at a certain point, there were no more rec/lighter options. So we did travel soccer and travel lacrosse, driving endless hours to far away places to play teams when they could have played appropriately matched teams near to home. This was especially problematic with girls lacrosse. So, it's not so much the activity, but the level. These teams are not elite and there is no need to complicate the landscape so much. [/quote]

My kids are the same, loved playing, pretty good, not amazing. The thing I liked about travel was it kept them really busy, active, and they learned to structure their time (to get homework done and still have time with friends). I feel like busy teens don’t have as much time to get into trouble. [/quote]

This is my mindset as well.  My kids loved their rec experience, but they started to get to be big fish in a small pond.  That's not to say they were amazing, but they were pretty good and they themselves wanted more competition and higher level coaching.  We moved to club/travel and it wasn't the insane travel that some in those sports do, we weren't going to Florida for tournaments, but there were a few tournament weekends a few states away where we had to get hotel rooms.  And there were late practices where we weren't home until after 10pm some nights.

But for my kids at least, the busier they were, the better they used their time.  And their sports experiences really built their confidence, they put themselves out there in ways I never would have dared at their age.[/quote]

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