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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Travel sports parents lie because they can’t come to terms with the last decade of carting their kids around was a complete waste. [/quote]

I absolutely think it’s this. 100%. [/quote]

Without touching the lying claim, what an odd take. How is spending time with your kid in a healthy physical activity a waste?[/quote]

It’s the travel cost/time commitment that is the waste. It did absolutely nothing to get your kid into college - which is why most people do travel. If you want to spend time with your kid in a healthy physical activity, why aren’t you doing rec?  It saves you thousands of dollars, and time spent traveling to tournaments and practice.

I mean if you want to blow thousands on travel for sh¡ts and giggles, have at it. But most people have a college goal in mind. [/quote]

This is an utterly bizarre and utterly joyless outlook. I have kids who made it to college with significant funding, so technically worth it, and yet even my kids and I would never say that travel sports was for college.

The obsessed anti-athlete haters on DCUM are just so, so weird. I have come to the conclusion that they don’t actually know how to have fun, to do something for the love and enjoyment, so they have to see the world the way the PP does. They don’t understand joy, camaraderie, fitness, or any of the intangibles that sports brings. [/quote]

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