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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][color=red]I wasted[/color][/b] too much of [b][color=red]my[/color][/b] and my kids' lives on travel hockey.  The money was fine for us, but the wasted time is real.  [b][color=red]I[/color][/b] wish we'd taken more bucket-list family trips instead and stuck with rec sports.  Hockey is such a time suck, from tournament travel to early morning and late night practices. Between my kids' activities, [b][color=red]I spent a decade of my life[/color][/b] sleeping less than five hours most nights, and for what?  Had we never introduced hockey, they could've played town soccer or baseball and been just as happy.  [/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Rec hockey would've been better than travel, and high school hockey is essentially rec hockey, which is where we ended, and it was fine, in part because he could drive himself to the 10 pm or 6 am practices.  But [b][color=red]I[/color][/b] still wish we hadn't introduced the sport in the first place.  [b][color=red]I spent too much of my life[/color][/b] sitting in a freezing cold ice rink around nutty hockey parents.  [/quote]

You are filled with regret apparently. Isn't it supposed to be about your child? If your child had a lot of fun playing hockey (or any other sport/activity), made friends, enjoyed competing and improving, perhaps dreamed of being the next Ovechkin, isn't that the point? Your child's activities are not about YOU and what YOU want. What you feel was a [b][i]waste of your time[/i][/b] and a [i][b]sacrifice[/b][/i] is a large part of parenting. Spending your time doing things for your child is what you signed up for when you decided to become a parent, or at least a decent parent.

Seriously, you should feel good that you in many ways supported your child playing a sport at a travel level that we assume they enjoyed. Let the regret go.[/quote]

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