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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are Americans so obsessed with kids sports?  I am just baffled.  All these parents worried that if they don't start X sport at 5, then their kid won't have a chance of making their HS team.  Really, who cares?  What am I missing.  Team sports are a giant pain in the ass.  There are so many other activities kids could be doing that are easier to schedule.  I get that it's great to be on a team and it has positive benefits etc but that applies to a rec team, or any other activity that has been sacrificed to do the team sport (an instrument, individual sport, more focus on academics, more sleep, less stress). [/quote]

Competitive sports are hardly a uniquely American concept. World-wide, people are raising competitors. Look at the Russian (or sub Chinese, Japanese or Korean) figure skating programs, soccer academies, ski teams, ice hockey in Canada, etc.  If you're not an athlete, then you don't get it, and you opt into whatever sports or other interests require the least amount of sacrifices.    [/quote]

I would be curious to know the percentage of the child population in America versus other countries that are doing highly competitive sports. Or let's be real a lot of these travel sports. Things are just a way to suck money out of parents who have overblown beliefs about their child's athletic abilities. I've heard all these funny stories about kids who did travel sports, but then weren't even good enough to make their high school team[/quote]

In many Asian countries the kids are scheduled with cram schools and instrument lessons. I have friends from Singapore who talk about tutoring centers the size of shopping malls. The kids are studying far longer then the American kid playing travel sports. [/quote]

Amd that's not any better. It's like ppl today forget to let kids have a childhood [/quote]

The childhood mine want includes sports nd music.  Surprise, some kids enjoy it. [/quote]

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