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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get you guys at all. My kid plays on a serious travel team. She’s a 7th grader, so not in HS, but so far the only thing she missed all year was a sleepover- and she went to the event and stayed until 10 pm. But so did two other girls who do similar sports. She also plays 3 sports at her middle school and is in the play.

There are 5 girls on the team who live in our neighborhood and most played together during the rec years then moved up. Additionally, she’s been to bat mitzvahs for 3 teammates this year and had amazing experiences at away tournaments hanging with her team. The parents are also very close- helping each other with everything from carpools to dog sitting. If that’s not community, I don’t know what is.

Does her sport take up a lot of time? Sure. Is it time she’d spend selling lemonade on the block? No. She’s got three great communities- school, the neighborhood, and her sport. As long as she loves doing it, the only downside I see is incurred by us parents doing the driving and paying. But we go into that with eyes wide open. [/quote]

But don’t you think all the time you’re wasting taking your kid to tournaments and what not is time that could be used instead to grow better local communities [/quote]

I’m not sure why you think it’s a zero sum game?

We’ve run our kids to various games the past couple weekends, and also hung out with neighbors whose kids of different ages do not play sports. And we’ll do the same thing this weekend. And my kids spent time this afternoon hanging out with neighborhood friends who play in different clubs than they do. So I personally am having trouble finding truth in many of the assertions here. But if you dislike it, feel free to avoid.[/quote]

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