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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truth is vast majority of kids who do these consuming activities will never benefit from them, make any money on it, have it as a career or even get a scholarship. Surely they won't be playing when they are adult as teams are hard to come by and life, job, family will become priority.  Why do people waste so much energy, time and money on this rat race? Is it just a thing to do that others are doing and is accepted as a standard of "success" or a good college "resume"?[/quote]

This is what I am trying to tell my kid who is in a sport and thinks the sport will continue in college. They should be more concerned with obtaining a degree. For most people, a sport usually does not wind up being a career. Even the best athletes age out of their sport or their sports career gets cut short by injuries. I feel competitive people are leading our kids astray, deluding them into thinking they will be some great athlete, when they probably won't and should be focusing on studying more.[/quote]

The families I know with kids in sports - rec or travel - are not in it for college or a pro career. They are in it for fun, life lessons about grit and perseverance and hard work, and a chance to play in high school (in some but not all cases). Playing in high school does help the college resume even if you're not a recruited athlete, but more than that it's just fun.

I have a kid who takes private lessons in her sport and plays rec. It's what [b]she[/b] wants to do and the way we do lessons it's less than her (also not very expensive) instrument lessons. What she's learned is that being willing to practice outside of practice on both those things means she can get better at them and work hard. That's going to serve her well in pursuit of the degree she'll hopefully some day earn, as a parent some day, in her job some day, all of it. So yeah, I'm willing to shell out a couple thousand buck a year for all that. And most parents with kids in any sort of activity are. Yeah, some are shelling out more and there can be good and bad reasons for it. But let's not pretend if your kid isn't going pro there aren't benefits.[/quote]

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