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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tried to do this with my oldest, but I am honestly too lazy.  I will give kids rides and pay for private lessons and all of that for my kids who want to do it.  But I’m not going to fight for the opportunity to sit at a swim meet for four hours every Monday of the summer.  If my kids don’t want to do it, I can’t work up the motivation to force them.  [/quote]

Why would you sit at a swim meet for four hours? Just drop them off and pick them up. My mother was very lazy and it shined through in a lot of her parenting. I swore to myself I wouldn't be a lazy parent. [/quote]

I’m not a lazy parent.  Like I said, I drive my kids all around and schedule and pay for private lessons and camps when they want to do stuff.  I have a daughter who is really into ballet, and that has been a lot.  I have another kid who is into D&D, and I take him to his stuff and go to gaming conventions and ren fairs and help him with his campaigns and am working with him on the board game he is designing.

But I lost my patience with forcing my kids to do stuff early on.  
If I dropped my kids off at a swim meet, and they didn’t want to be there, they would just walk home. They wouldn’t stay and swim.  I stayed and made my oldest swim for one summer before I decided it was a stupid way to spend my time, and it was messing up my relationship with my child.  
When my other kids wanted to swim, I 
took them to morning practices and went to the meets and cheered them on.  But I’m not doing it for a kid who doesn’t want to be there.  
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