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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, my parents came to almost every soccer and softball game from 5th grade to senior. Even stayed for varsity games when I was on JV and sat varsity (in case I got playing time). My parents were far from helicopter parents, but they enjoyed coming and made friends with some of the parents.

Anyway, I am 30 now and I definitely noticed the effort they put in to show up. I think kids care more than you think. [/quote]

Soccer and softball are way different than track. Soccer is 60 minutes at most when they are younger and 90 minutes when they are older. Softball is longer but it is around 2 hours. Track meet go on for HOURS! 
My sons play basketball (wasn't a sport I really liked or was interested in, but I find it somewhat exciting now) the games last an hour; baseball (2 hours for a game; I love it when they pitch or catch so there is more action); and soccer (1 hour for a game and most of that time my kids are running around on the field. My oldest did track last spring and the previous spring and it was brutal. He had to be there at 8 am and the meets ended at 2:30 or as late as 3:30. I had to volunteer 3 1/2 hours per home meet. He runs shorter distances so he would run for less than a minute then wait an hour, repeat all day. Ugh! I hope he doesn't want to do it again. My husband and I both volunteered to take our other kids to their sports instead. He signed up to be an assistant coach for baseball so he never had to go to the track meets and I got stuck volunteering.  I am trying to convince the track kid to do baseball or lacrosse this spring. [/quote]

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