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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All these activities (including travel soccer) are a scam if you are doing it for anything other than current enjoyment and building life skills.  If you think there is some financial payoff or elite status at the end of this, then it is a total scam. [/quote]

This is such a great perspective and a rare one on DCUM. There's usually one side screaming "kids are overscheduled" and another screaming "but your kid will never be a D1 recruit." This is the sensible middle ground - do it because your kid loves it and is learning life skills from it.[/quote]

None of these activities are teaching time management skills or how to set appropriate priorities, that's for sure. Look at how many people in these activities are homeschooled because the activity is too intense to be compatible with 30+ hours of regular school per week. If you're looking at a competitive dance studio or travel team and half the kids are homeschooled in some fashion, run. 
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PP with a DD in comp dance and I disagree. She's 8 and has learned a ton of time management through dance. Mostly because I refuse to sit in the studio and make sure she gets to each class on time for multiple hours multiple days a week. I drop her off with a watch and her schedule and she either gets where she needs to be or is late and gets a consequence. But she's never late, so it must be working just fine.

She also is well aware that I will start removing dance classes the second school doesn't become a priority. For example, she's struggling in math a bit (not her FAULT per se) so she had to pick a class to remove so we could find a chunk of time for tutoring. She understands that's a requirement of mine. She can only take unlimited classes if she is not falling behind in school. [/quote]

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