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[quote=Anonymous][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]
DP, to be honest I’m more worried about what’s best for my kid, not the nebulous concept of growing better local communities. My DD has neighborhood friends, club sport friends, school friends, summer swim friends. Some of these groups overlap and some don’t, but it’s the perfect mix for her. FWIW, her club sport friends are her best friends, they don’t have drama with each other and they support each other even though they compete against each other. I am so glad that my DD found her niche and her people with her sport. [/quote]

These travel sports definitely encourage the what’s best for my kid and my kid only unless you’re doing something that keeps my kid in the game. Anecdotally we are creating more narcissists in each new generation of this[/quote]

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