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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand how they'd could be family time, but what about the siblings and what they might want? Do they have to go all the time? What if they just want to hang out with their friends or something?[/quote]
Yeah, I think a lot of sporty parents have a blind spot when it comes to their non-athlete kids. They would never, for example, drag the athletic kid out to a D&D convention if that's what the non-athletic kid wanted to do on a Saturday. [/quote]

Usually the kids have opposite activities so it's divide and conquer. It's rare that in my family we're all at any one activity. That's how many people balance it.[/quote]

Almost all the families I know who have a kid in travel sports…have multiple kids who also do their own (sometimes different) travel sports.  These are pretty pro sports families.  The completely non athletic kid related to an athlete one is unusual…or that child isn’t at the games because I don’t usually see it.  I’m SURE there are the bad apples out there who have an unhappy sibling dragged to sport weekends and never given priority, but that’s an exception not a rule.[/quote]

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