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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the parents obsessed with their kids sports mostly ones who never played competitive sports themselves as children? This is a pattern I've observed and I'm sure there's some psychology to it. [/quote]

I find most parents think their kids are going to scholarship or see D1 sports. Bragging rights. But many have been into sports and never made it as far.  It is a generation of parents who think more pushing and structure will make these kids perfect. They spend every weekend, much of their extra money and a lot of gas on this dream. Kids just aren't kids anymore. They are robots and programmed this way as the only way from a very young age. If they have any free time, they are bored and no one else to hang out with anyway. They are all on their parent's program schedule. What our neighborhood friends used to be are our kid's sport team friends. It is no longer memories of jailbreak, stickball and hanging out all weekend de-stressing and becoming their own person. Learning street smarts, common sense, etc...  It is a week of school structure, increased homework and lots of practices to weekends of scheduled tournaments in towns 2-3hrs from your house. Waking up at 5am. Coming home at 7pm. Showering and bed and do it all again the next day. Then Monday up again for school. Kids are actually used to this and since these are the kids they must be around, they tend to be their closest friends and have zero thought that they do anything on their own. It doesn't occur to them their life was so structured. It is very strange. [/quote]

Preparing them for life in the cubicle.[/quote]

Exactly!!![/quote]

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