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[quote=Anonymous]My kids play travel. We’re from a less wealthy town where not as many kids play club in the offseason.  They usually finish near the bottom of the league, but they work hard and they’re capable of upsetting the big powerhouse teams.

Anecdotally, I’ve noticed that teams who aren’t used to setbacks have a harder time handling losses.  If our kids beat them, they completely melt down.  I’ve seen tears, curses, insults and slurs, shoves and chokeholds and tripping, parents screaming at refs, kids booting balls and throwing water bottles and flipping off parents on the sidelines, etc.  The entitlement is unreal. Our kids don’t love losing either, but when it happens they shrug and move on.

Same with individual sports.  My DS competes with a local kid who’s dominated ever since he was 7, mostly because very few kids compete in that sport until late middle school/HS.  The other boy won Nationals and had Olympic aspirations, until last year when a random kid from his gym class also decided to start competing and began consistently beating him.  Now he’s spiraling. He got injured earlier this fall from overtraining, and has stopped practicing. He’ll probably bounce back, but being wildly successful at such a young age never taught him how to deal with adversity.[/quote]

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