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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh.  My kids play baseball, basketball, soccer, field hockey.  Those are true team sports.  They also do gymnastics, diving, track and field and swimming - those are individual sports to me with a strong team element.  You care about your team and it is great when you win but the important thing at the end of the  day seems to be individual performance more.  Though when my daughter's team won track she was very happy that her finish helped push them over the line. [/quote]

You clearly don't get swim.  Your kids sound like they dabble and don't specialize.  After about 7-8, the only good way to get proficient at a sport is to specialize in that sport and focus on it.  Most swimmers are going 3-4-5 days a week swim.  There is no way your kids can do all those sports at the same time more than an hour a week.  [b]To say your kids swim, ok a swim lesson or a predevelopment class is very different from team.  Same with diving and gymnastics. [/b] Or, your kids do diving/swim at the summer pool which is very different than year round swim.  Swim, like other sports is a huge parental committment.[/quote]

SHE HAS MORE THAN ONE KID.

Swim parents are the worst, seriously. If you have to be a lingual contortionist just to tell us that you spend a lot of money so that your child can be okay at something that IS A sport, it probably isn't. [/quote]

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