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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess the problem I see is that sports have basically become all or nothing. Either you're doing travel teams and shelling out money for private lessons, or you're out of luck.

I grew up playing rec league sports in Toronto. Anyone who wanted to could sign up for a hockey team in winter and a soccer or baseball team during summer, which were run by Toronto's parks and rec, and have very modest signup calls. This provided a middle ground of giving kids the benefits of physical activity without having to devote your family's life to it. Whether you played a sport or not was irrelevant to college admissions, since college sports aren't much of a thing in Canada.  [/quote]

I'm ready to go from "all" to "nothing" with my kid's sport. For years, we've let him play on a club team that has involved significant travel costs and private lessons to keep up at the highest level. The kid is now a teenager complaining about wanting more time with friends.  The thing is, I know that when we shift gears, starting with no more private lessons, this is going downhill fast.  He'll go from the lower middle of the pack to cut from the team in one year.  He doesn't get it, but we see the writing on the wall.  The passion and drive are gone, and he's giving lip service to wanting to play at a high level.  He'll still make the high school team, and that has to be enough. But, wow, what an expensive, time-sucking journey to play a high school sport.    [/quote]

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