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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why why why do people start all of these threads bashing travel sports?

Simply put: travel sports are not for everyone. “Travel team” means a wide range of things for different sports, age groups and areas. Families choose this path for lots of reasons but, while there’s no question that some parents are delusional, most of us are in it because our kid loves the sport, we love our kids, and it makes sense for our family. Yes our yard and house may not be up to standards but I’m willing to bet that our kid will remember his sports experiences from childhood vs the state of our yard/house. We reassess our commitment to the team/training every year and if at some point it becomes too much we’ll make a change. Sports take up a lot of time but we all love sports.

+ 1 to the PP who made the theater comment. I loathe drama/musical/theater. I understand that many, many people enjoy it. I don’t feel the need to disparage their choices.  [/quote]

Yes. My kids are older teens now and by far the worst parental behavior I ever saw was in theater. It was genuinely shocking. Yet I don’t go around asking why people put their kids on theater or whether they delusionally believe their kids are the next Zendaya. I assume that they have their reasons and they like going to their children’s theater performances and can deal with the terrible parent behavior effectively.

These repeated threads on DCUM are so weird  to me, because I cannot imagine going through my life as angry as OP and some of the PPs are that someone else made a different choice with their kids. Nobody is making your kids to club sports or theater or whatever. Just don’t do something if you don’t like it. No need to carry around the seething rage that some of you do when faced with parents who make different choices. [/quote]

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