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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is demanding this?[/quote]

I know travel soccer starts with 7 year old kids, which is crazy. I think it is up to each family to decide to do travel teams or not. Right now, we don’t worry about that. DS is 6 and not playing a sport that starts that young. But if you choose travel for any sport you are making a year round commitment. So far DS is not showing enough interest to think that we are going to be worrying about travel in anything.

But travel sport is a choice. There is no reason to have to play travel for any sport. Some parts buy into it hook, line and sinker, just go look at the soccer forums on this site. There is nothing wrong with play receational sports. They don’t even prevent you from playing at the high school leel because some sports don’t want their kids playing for their high school if they are playing travel.

That said, the Marching Band I was in in high school was uber comeptitive. We practice for all of August, every week day for 4 hours or so. We practiced after school and competed. We won our region but it was a huge time comitmment. I gave up soccer to be in marching band. And my Jazz Band practice needed to be altered so that it was after softball practice.

I never felt overwhelmed or like I was doing too much. I enjoyed my activities and my grades were fine. (Shrugs)[/quote]

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