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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what OP isn’t getting is that this IS a warm hearted and fun childhood for many kids.  The team is filled with their closest friends, and in between tournament games they are bonding at an arcade, at team dinners.  The parents are becoming friends and there is a lot of support and comraderie.  It just doesn’t look like your childhood or the one your child is experiencing.[/quote]

The downside to that is having to make the team every year to keep your friends. My kids have been on teams where they are comfortably in the middle and near the top and it's not stressful at all, but they've also been near the bottom and that is incredibly stressful. An 11 or 12 year old is facing a situation where if they don't make the team, they lose most of their good friends. I've seen it happen to kids and they just seem miserable for the remainder of the season and then they're dropped off of text threads and forgotten by the middle of the next season.  [/quote]

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