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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really, does anyone here personally know anyone who became a successful professional athlete? Anyone??? The best athletes are not coming out of the burbs, and most elite soccer players aren’t even American.[/quote]

on the mens side where they are competing with hundreds of millions this is true. On the women's side, it's very much pay to play and the best still come up though elite clubs that aren't cheap [/quote]
Yeah, I have to laugh at these people who are overly involved in kids’ sports, take it so seriously. I mean, really, unless you absolutely love watching children play sports, which I doubt, it’s kind of like watching kids play on a playground. There is no future in it. It’s good exercise and a good lesson in teamwork, but that’s it. Why parents get so overly involved and invested is beyond me. I have seen this play out time and time and time again, and not one of the kids played past college or even in college at all. Don’t stress, your kid is not the next Messi.[/quote]

This is idiotic. Laugh away. You are missing the point. Badly. Melissa isn’t the next Meryl Streep, but we definitely get her ready for school plays and watch with interest. Same with Tyler and science fair, and he may not even study science. The question to me is not why parents invest in their children’s sports (it has zero to do with thinking your kid will be a pro for 99.99% of interested parents), but why they don’t invest so much more in other activities, some of which may have more impact longer term. Just being honest. You can either pretend to be apathetic or indifferent, or truly be so - that’s your business. But don’t judge others for being interested and don’t think for a second you have put your finger on the heterogeneous motivations at work here. [/quote]
That’s all fine and good, but some of the parents need to sit the F down and act like adults rather than pathetic losers living through their kids.[/quote]

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