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[quote=Anonymous]My kid adores sports, one in particular. It makes him happy, he works really hard at it, and he has leadership roles. He experiences success and defeat and disappointment and redemption in a zero—life-consequences way. He simply won’t do that with other worthy pursuits - chess, math team, writing, art, etc. If I made him do those things instead it would be my motivation, not his, and my goal is to let my kid learn what he can do when he taps into motivation and works hard. SOMEDAY he’ll learn to apply that to other non-sports things, like school or work. He’s in high school, and while he isn’t a stellar student (still dislikes academics) he knows how to work hard, and he does. He’ll play in college, not because he’ll get a scholarship but because he loves his sport (still, after all these years).[/quote]
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