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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the mindset of parents who sign their pre-teens up for intense travel sports?  Are they trying to keep up with the Jones'?  Hoping their kid will get a baseball scholarship?  Hoping their kid will be the next David Beckham?  I just don't understand the appeal of an entire family sacrificing all of their weekend and weeknight time to these leagues.  Patrice's multiple night s a week sometimes an hour away from home, tournaments lasting all weekend long four hours away, how do so many parents get sucked in?[/quote]

[b]NP. DCUMs obsessed anti-athlete posters are so weird and lacking in basic social skills.[/b]

Here is your answer. I know it’s hard for you to grasp. But here it is: Some people like to do things with their kids that are different than things you like to do.

I swear a good percentage of DCUM thread originators would be so much happier in their lives if they could understand that extremely basic concept. [/quote]

I’ve noticed this trend too. No one is starting threads about kids doing Kumon or other academic tutoring multiple nights per week, or kids who spend hours learning a musical instrument, or kids who travel for scouts camping trips, or families who buy ski passes and go skiing all winter, etc.

But for whatever reason there are a number of posters on this board who love to post about youth sports, especially any sort of travel or club level sport. Clearly they are for some odd reason triggered by the idea of families supporting their child’s passion that involves competitive sports. [/quote]

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