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[quote=Anonymous]DH is always asking what the endgame to all this money, energy, time is and I don't have a good answer.  Although DD is only age 9, she has invested even at this young age her time and energy in it.

She identifies herself with soccer as her sport.  Is she great?  Not really.  She made the top team but the top team is not exactly in a top club playing in a top league so there is that consideration!  Nevertheless it's something that is hers.  She doesn't want to play another sport besides soccer even though I think she has that natural athleticism that would allow her to excel maybe more (ie lacrosse as all the soccer moms tell me) which is why she has been doing so well.  She isn't out there kicking and loving and watching the sport like some of these stories of kids I'm reading about, like some of her teammates do.  But she is also the youngest on a U11 team.  It's now our 3rd year on travel and it's hard for me for sure.

I say to myself, what else is she going to do if not this?  She would be on electronics all day that's what.  I wish for both her and me, we would see the friendships that could develop and learn the lessons of losing/hard work/etc.  but I do think that doing travel soccer is better than not doing anything.

I see her working as hard as she can in practices and there is nobody who has ever seen her play, her coaches, her teammates and all the parents who would ever say that she doesn't put her all out there.  For this I am so proud of her.  So whether she has learned the life lessons valued from sports consciously or not, she has demonstrates to me her innate commitment to an activity and if nothing else, at least being in travel soccer has allowed us to take satisfaction from this.

Maybe she'll get better, or quit, or just continue as she has, but we're at that point that there's no reason to stop, no matter how grueling the schedule is for me, working mom! :)

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