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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry -- meant to say when PARENTS don't have a kid that is truly passionate about a sport.

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Being passionate is one thing.  You and/or your kid obsessing about just barely making a cut for the NCAP Invite (or whatever meet) is something entirely different.  A lot of kids make these cuts.  A lot don't.  Relax and let them be a kid before you make them hate swimming, or make them obsess even more to please you, just because they didn't make a cut that all their friends made. [/quote]

Not the PP, but my kid is one of those obsessive swimmers and is planning to swim in college.  There is no way I could make her hate swimming.  It is her life. There are kids out there that go and hit the water to practice their turns or underwaters on their own. You have to fight with them to not do doubles every day, and to take breaks.  They don't miss meets. They are trying for the next cut because once they can get it they can try for the one after that. If you don't have a kid like that, then you just don't get it.[/quote]

[b]Cool, so that kid's goal really is the Olympics then.[/b][b][/quote]

You are an ass.[/quote]

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