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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why in the hell do people spend so much time at things that bore them this much? Tell the kid to find another hobby. Jesus.[/quote]

"I know you love baseball, Billy, but mommy gets really bored at your games.  I've enrolled you in dance instead; I'll enjoy that much more"[/quote]

"That doesn't work for our family so we'll have to pick something else. Here are three options. Which would you like, or would you like to come up with another idea?"[/quote]

This whole thread has basically been about baseball and swimming.  It's not like we're talking about heli skiing or something completely off the wall that would disrupt a family.

If enrolling your kid in baseball or swim "doesn't work" for your family, you need to re-evaluate yourself as a parent[/quote]

Not PP, but I would not consider someone a failure as a parent for declining to plan their weekends around rec sports.[/quote]

Well, there's a difference between planning your weekend around weekend sports, and declining a child's request to play in a sport because it interferes with your weekend leisure plans.

Hell, at the very least,[b] drop the kid off and let them play while that crappy parent does whatever they want to do.  That's still really lousy parenting, [/b]but at least its better than saying no[/quote]

Wait, why is it lousy parenting? Why does a child need to be watched while they engage in their hobby? My mother had a studio where she would do art. Was I a crappy child for not accompanying her to observe her artistic endeavors? [/quote]

Funny, I don't hear a lot of adults complaining that their parents went to all of their recitals or was always in the stands. I do hear a lot of complaining about the opposite though [/quote]
Recitals don't happen every weekend, so I don't think they're comparable to baseball or soccer games.

I don't know, seems like something has changed in the last few decades. I played basketball and swam in high school, and all of our games and meets happened after school on weekdays. Some kids did play for sports teams on weekends outside of school, and also during the summers. But, we traveled to games on our own (I lived in a city with good transit options), and generally saw it as our activity, rather than something we needed to drag parents to. Certainly, with families with more than one kid, there wasn't an expectation that the entire family needed to go to every game.

The travel team phenomenon seems pretty crazy.

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