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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Keep in mind that these people pour tremendous amounts of time, money, and resources into raising their kids, not to to be future well-functioning adults, but to be future college students.  They simply can’t comprehend a parenting philosophy or strategy (or God forbid the lack of strategy or philosophy) that is not 100% focused on college admissions.[/quote]

The spoken and unspoken goal of all the crazy sports parents is their kid "playing at the next level." You are lying if you deny that. Not necessarily T20 elite admissions hooks, just on a college team, any college team. And preferably D1, for bragging rights and real student-athlete scholarships.[/quote]

No way.  I want my kid to go pro.  I couldn’t give less of a sh!t about playing in college.  [/quote]

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